Dr. Harmony Rose Murphy Vocal Music
Music is here at Madera Community College!
We now offer an Associates of Arts for Transfer in Music, an Associate of Arts in Music Performance, and five different Certificates in Music. These degrees are made up of the same classes a music major would take during their first two years at a 4-year college but at a lower cost and with more personalized attention!
We serve vocalists, guitarists, and pianists. In our piano and Mac lab, we teach music theory, ear training, as well as private lessons and ensembles. In addition, we also have general education courses in music that include Music Appreciation, Honors Music Appreciation, Jazz History, History of Rock and Roll, History of Musical Theatre, and Cultural Music History.
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Email:harmony.murphy@maderacollege.edu
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Harmony Murphy is a conductor, singer, and clarinetist. She is currently in the Vocal Music Faculty at Madera Community College in Madera, California. There she runs and develops the growing music program. Prior to her time there, she was Director of Vocal Studies at Buena Vista College, Vocal Music Faculty at Reedley College, Director of Choral Activities at St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana and Head of the Voice Area at Darton State College in Albany, Georgia where she also directed the choirs and taught Voice Majors.
Murphy holds a Doctorate of Arts in Music in Choral Conducting and Voice Performance from Ball State University. Murphy also holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from Notre Dame de Namur University, Master in Choral Conducting from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Returning back to his native Fresno roots, Andrew Gomez-Ramirez has gone East to West in his quest to expand his knowledge of Classical Guitar. Andrew was accepted into the Eastman School of Music where he completed a Masters in Guitar Performance and Literature. He was also bestowed the Performer’s Certificate, a feat only given to the most exceptional musicians capable of performing and demonstrating excellence. An advocate of contemporary music, Andrew’s repertoire is best showcased in the modern, actively looking to find new works for classical guitar.
During his time at Eastman, he played with OSSIA, a New Music student-run organization at the Eastman School of Music committed to performing the works of contemporary composers, collaborated with female composers, Amy Nam and Yi-Ning Lo, and premiered guitar pieces dedicated to him that showcased the unique timbres and expansive extended techniques of the guitar.
Andrew Gomez-Ramirez holds a Bachelors in Guitar Performance from California State Northridge, an Associates of Music in Guitar from Fresno City College. At CSUN, he was part of the prolific CSUN guitar quartet and was chosen to be an IGRA fellow to assist and archive historic content of the Guitar Department of CSUN. During his earliest years at Fresno City College, he was involved in the Jazz Ensemble and Latin Jazz ensemble respectively. He has studied with Dr. Nicholas Goluses, Paul O’Dette, Dr. Steven Thachuck, John Dearman, Mike Dana, and Dr. Kevin Cooper.
