Don Snowden, Department Head and Director of Bands, is the State Advisor for the Music Division of the Florida Community College Activities Association. He is also the President of the National Association of Concert Bands.

The faculty and staff at Pensacola State College Department of Music and Theatre are pleased to announce that sophomore guitar major, Mitchell Smegelski, is the top prizewinner in the classical guitar division of the 2008 Florida Community College Activity Association’s Music Student Artist Competition. The competition, held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 24, is part of the F.C.C.A.A.’s annual Winter Music Symposium. Students compete and perform with other students from community colleges throughout the state of Florida in the annual symposium, which features master classes, workshops, lectures, solo and ensemble performances, and the music student artist competition.

Mr. Smegelski’s prize-winning performance featured Nikita Koshkin’s Usher Waltz and J. S. Bach’s Prelude in d minor, BWV 999. As part of his First Prize Award, Mitchell will receive a two-year scholarship to attend a college or university of his choice in the state of Florida.

Mitchell is the son of Deborah and Mike Smegelski of Pensacola, and a student of Dr. Joe Stallings, director of guitar programs, at Pensacola State College. He is also a member of the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra, the Pensacola Guitar Ensemble, and the Pensacola Guitar Society.
 

Alumni News

Austen Edwards (AA Theatre 2008) is continuing her studies as a BA Theatre Major at the University of Central Florida.

Vincent Teschel (AA Theatre 2007) has received his BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Dance from Jacksonville University. He also received his Certificate in Musical Theatre from the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City. He is currently a working actor in Montana.

Pensacola State College Music Students Receive Scholarships

May 2010

Two Pensacola State College freshmen music majors recently received the Ike Terry Memorial Scholarship from the Cantonment Rotary Club.

Rachael Lee, soprano, and Jackson Willis, trombone, each received a $500 award. Pensacola State College professor and Cantonment Rotary Club member Jack O’Donnell made the presentation.

The scholarship was established for the late Ike Terry, minister of music at First United Methodist Church and member of the Cantonment Rotary Club.