Master of Music in Performance

Program Goals

The Master of Music in Performance Program:

• Seeks to prepare students for professional positions in their performance area.
• Recognizes the need to train students to become performance-scholars so that they are equipped to conduct research relevant to their performance specialties.
• Provides a broad integrative sequence of courses so students may understand their performance specialty in the context of research, history, analysis, pedagogy, and performance.
• Facilitates interaction with various performance ensembles.
• Gives students the unique opportunity of merging classical and contemporary musical training in a Christian academic setting.
• Encourages interaction with world-class performers and composers through the Artist Concert Series.
• Introduces students to the music and scholarship of non-Western cultures through the visiting scholar program and other multicultural experiences.
• Prepares individuals who wish to pursue doctoral programs.
• Equips the student to plan, prepare, and perform a graduate recital.

"I believe that a good music teacher must be a good performer. With an undergraduate degree in music education, I felt it was crucial to complement that knowledge base with performance skills. What I learn about musical expression in this program, while it challenges and stretches me, better qualifies me to turn around and teach future musicians seeking careers in both education and performance. APU professors model for me daily the kind of personal attention that motivates students and draws out the best in every musician."