Students: Here are the tools you'll need to understand your opportunities and to meet the challenges and requirements of your full participation in the HC music program.  

 Music Majors & Ensemble Participants:

Here, our day-to-day special ways of doing things are spelled out in detail. Whether you call them 'guidelines' or 'rules and regulations', for decades they have made the Hastings College Music Department a model for others around the country to emulate.    

• Hastings College Music Student Handbook 2025-2026 (updated 8-25-25)

Applied Studio Forms

Please note: You must save each form to your own computer BEFORE filling it out (do not fill out the form in your browser). Also, you may control the format of the text (italics, bold, etc.) in many of the form fields by right-clicking on the selected text and choosing "Text Style".

• Instrumental Jury Form

• Piano/Organ Jury Form

• Voice Jury Form

• Sophomore Assessment Form UPDATED 2021

Performance & Ensemble Forms:

Again: You must save each form to your own computer BEFORE filling it out (do not fill out the form in your browser).

• Recital Jury Form

• Music Hour Performance Form

• Choir Absence Form

Recital and Concert Program:

• Immediately after notification of passing your jury. Contact your professor or Dr. Eckhardt for the program template (Microsoft Word format). Do not wait until days before your recital. INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Open the template file in Microsoft Word (Google Docs will NOT work)

  2. Input all necessary details of your recital (name, collaborator(s), date, works, dates, composers, degree, teacher's name, etc.)

  3. Send to your studio professor for comments.

  4. Make necessary changes to your program and save as a PDF.

  5. Your professor will take care of printing the programs for your recital.