OCSA Popular Music Senior Showcase + End-of-Year Party

The Orange County School of the Arts Popular Music Program Senior Showcase and End-of-Year Party

The Popular Music Conservatory is a commercial and contemporary music program that provides talented and passionate students with a nurturing and empowering environment, promoting musical creativity, musical collaboration, and innovation within the popular music industry. Students learn the art of music performance, music production, arranging, and songwriting through a detailed curriculum enhanced by state-of-the-art technology.

In the Popular Music Conservatory, students are immersed in a challenging environment where they learn to work individually and collaboratively. Each year, they take a class in each of five focus areas: primary instrument, music theory, performance, music tech/recording, and more. The unique facilities that the program gives students access to allows for a broad but refined curriculum that covers theory, music business, musicianship, basic instrument and voice training, studio skills, and ensemble. Students are exposed to renowned guest artists, university faculty, and industry leaders, who visit the school’s campus to share their expertise and creativity through master classes, lectures, performances, presentations, and hands-on training. In this environment, students are given the skillsets and knowledge necessary to create and produce thoughtful and technically sound music with the freedom to find their own creative voice – whether it be playing an instrument, working the soundboard, managing independent artists, or singing lead for a band.

Popular Music Conservatory faculty focuses on preparing students for the realities of life and work as a creative individual in a world of commercial and popular music. Upon graduation, students will be prepared to attend a four-year university or an arts conservatory program, and to pursue a career in the music industry.

https://www.ocsarts.net/areas-of-study/school-of-music/popular-music/overview