Department of Music

The Chamber Choir at Sheridan College includes singers who meet regularly to rehearse work of sufficient difficulty to challenge vocal music students. A variety of forms are included in the repertoire, from madrigals to modern jazz. The ensemble tours each spring and averages 10-20 performances a year. Students must audition for this group.

This select ensemble features compositions using 9 – 20 instruments.

The Sheridan College Concert Brass Ensemble is a select group comprised of principal brass and percussion players in the Symphony Band. We perform classic and contemporary repertoire for brass and percussion.

Sheridan College’s Collegiate Chorale is a large chorus that performs a variety of choral music. The Collegiate Chorale typically performances once each semester.

This group is a performing ensemble which provides opportunities for students to study jazz combo music in an organized group setting. Techniques for improvisation are explored.

The Jazz Ensemble at Sheridan College is an ensemble usually numbering from 14 to 18 members and performs an array of jazz genres. The group typically performs two concerts each semester and may perform at other functions such as dances.

The Music Tech Ensemble creates, rehearses and performs music using handheld electronic devices, laptop computers, synthesizers, and other instruments. Emphasis is placed on group composition and improvisation in a variety of musical styles and genres.

The Sheridan College Symphony Band, directed by Dr. Eric Richards, is comprised of 50-65 musicians drawn from both the SC student body as well as experienced local community musicians. This ensemble performs classic and contemporary wind band literature. The interaction of students and adult musicians of all ages, a number of whom are music educators and professional musicians, creates a vibrant and exciting music-making atmosphere in the SC Symphony Band.

Directed by Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman, this group provides opportunities for students to study and perform symphonic literature from a wide variety of historical periods in an ensemble setting.

The Trombone Choir is comprised of 5-10 trombonists and tubists and performs Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and contemporary repertoire.

This group provides opportunities for the student to study and perform music predating the common practice era in a small-group ensemble. Period instruments, performance practice, and repertoire are explored. The ensemble performs on authentic Viola da Gambas built for Sheridan College.

Skyline Singers is the professional choir-in-residence at the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College, directed by Dr. Robert Psurny. Our specialty is a cappella music, ranging from plainsong to part-songs, madrigals to motets, and from vocal jazz to contemporary pop.

The Whitney Center Jazz Orchestra is the professional big band-in-residence at the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College, directed by Dr. Eric Richards.

Wyoming Baroque brings together nationally known artists specializing in historically informed performances of 17th and 18th Century repertoire as well contemporary compositions featuring instruments built to the same specifications. The ensemble is the professional string ensemble-in-residence at the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College. Committed to education and arts advocacy, Wyoming Baroque also presents masterclasses at schools and community centers throughout the region.