A number of music performance scholarships and endowed scholarships are available whether you are a music major or not. 

*For band scholarship information contact Thomas Mensch.
*For vocal, piano, strings, and classical guitar students, please contact the music department for an application packet, or download forms below.

Completed applications should include:

• Application form (PDF)
• Recommendation form (sent in separately) (PDF)
• Unofficial high school transcript
• Audition request
• Accompaniment Request form (PDF)

*Note: you must have the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader® Software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Auditions (except for Band students) are slated for April 2010. You should be prepared to sing one solo and complete a short sight-reading exercise. If you are interested in Harmony and Understanding there is also a dance audition, and you may sing a popular piece.

For more information, please contact Nathan Russell, professor/director of choral activities, at nrus@tjc.edu or (903) 510-3265.

For Apache Belle Scholarship Information please contact:
Ruth Flynn at rfly@tjc.edu

For Dance Scholarship Information please contact:
Jennifer Mondani Bailey at jbai@tjc.edu

For Band Scholarship Information please contact:
Thomas Mensch at tmen@tjc.edu
Thomas McGowan at tmcg@tjc.edu
Heather Mensch at tmen2@tjc.edu
Adam Myers at amye@tjc.edu

For Piano Scholarship Information please contact:
Kerry Baham at kbah@tjc.edu

Accompanists for Students
Dr Maria Guenette 903-510-2561
Donald Duncan 903-597-6317
Judy Wilkins 903-595-3352
Jeffrey Ford 903-316-1128
Andrea Handley 903-592-7396,   andrea.handley@gmail.com

Tyler Junior College enrolls around 10,000 students a semester and is the largest single campus junior college in the state. It offers a wide selection of music courses for beginners and accomplished music students, in addition to those students in other fields who just want the sound of music in their lives. Various instrumental and choral ensembles and private lessons are available. For more information on TJC's music department, or scholarship opportunities, contact:

Jennifer Bailey
Interim Director, Fine and Performing Arts

Tyler Junior College
P. O. Box 9020
Tyler, TX 75711
(903) 510-2483

For more information, please contact jbai@tjc.edu via e-Mail.

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