Spring Into Summer – May 20, 2025
New and familiar wind band music to start the summer with fun!
Read MoreBeau Soir – Sept 22, 2023
Faculty recital of classical French music with Dr. Dawn Brooks, vocalist, Dr. Rik Noyce, flute, and Anthony Lopez, piano. Featuring music by Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc, and André Previn.
Read MoreGroovefest – Oct 17, 2023
Flashback concert of 60s, 70s and 80s music with GWC’s voice and guitar students and HBHS APA musicians.
Read MoreDona Nobis Pacem – Dec 4, 2023
Concert of World Music with GWC Singers and Dwyer Middle School.
Read MoreSpring Into Summer – May 14, 2024
New and familiar wind band music to start the summer with fun!
Read MoreMy Spirit Sang All Day – May 16, 2024
A celebration of music and poetry featuring the GWC Chamber Singers and Applied Voice students.
Read MoreEllen Kim – Part-Time Instructor
Ellen Kim has received both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees with honors, in piano performance from California State University, Fullerton. She then furthered her piano studies in Austria and Italy. Some highlights include appearances in Bad Aussee, Eisenstadt, Salzburg, Vienna and Urbino.
Read MoreDawn Brooks – Professor, Music
Dawn Brooks graduated from California State University, Long Beach with Bachelor and Masters degrees in Vocal Performance and a DMA in Choral Music from the University of Southern California.
Read MoreDr. Collette Hausey – Professor, Music
Dr. Collette Hausey is Professor of Music, Director of Bands & Applied Music Studies at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California. She is an internationally recognized conductor, composer, arranger, bassist, and percussionist, and is well-known throughout the United States as an adjudicator, clinician, guest conductor, and honor band conductor.
Read MoreDesert Island Music – December 7, 2013
If you were trapped on a deserted island and you could only have one piece of music, what would it be?
Read MoreChoose Your Own Concert – May 16, 2015
What if you could decide what the choir should sing next?
Read MoreWhat’s a Mother To Do? May 17, 2014
The parents of Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Kuhnau, Georg Friedrich Händel and Heinrich Schütz all sent their sons of to the university to become lawyers. Things didn’t work out the way they planned . . .
Read MoreHindsight is 20/20 – December 7, 2012
A retrospective with 20 choral selections, one from each year of Dr. Bales’ 20 year tenure at Golden West College
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