Master of Music in Performance

Program Distinctives and Benefits

Distinctives

Master of Music in Performance students, many pursuing performance careers as well as developing private teaching studios, choose APU's School of Music because it offers:

• Small classes
• Access to professors
• Interaction with a variety of performance groups
• Opportunity for performance scholarships
• Freedom to integrate faith into music performance
• Private teachers who are working professionals from Los Angeles, New York, and abroad
• Access to the greater Los Angeles area, which provides performance opportunities in many different venues including musicals, operas, church concerts, recording studios, orchestras, jazz bands, etc.
• The Artist Concert Series and Artist in Residence program, which provide students the opportunity to interact with active professional musicians, including performers, composers, arrangers, and conductors

Benefits

The Master of Music in Performance prepares those who have completed a baccalaureate degree with a performance emphasis to continue the development of their performance skill through advanced study. The program achieves this through:

• Areas of specialization, including conducting (choral and instrumental), vocal performance, and instrumental performance (brass, woodwinds, strings, guitar, harp, piano, and organ)
• Opportunities to merge classical and contemporary musical training in a Christian academic setting
• Interaction with choral ensembles and participation in opera workshops, chamber music, orchestral music, Handbell Choir, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Band, and jazz ensembles
• A balanced core of courses addressing issues in musicology, research methods, and the historical and pedagogical issues of the performance areas.
• Focused preparation for doctoral programs
• Culminating recital (required to complete the program)