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  • Optimal professional training for careers as teachers, performers, composers, arrangers, and conductors.

  • Degree programs and concentrations tailored to your interests and level of achievement.

  • Dedicated, award-winning faculty members.

Master of Music:
for students with a Bachelor of Music or its equivalent who intend to pursue higher-level studies in Performance; Music Education (with emphasis in Applied Music, Conducting, Research, or Classroom Methods); Music Composition; Theory; Collaborative Piano; Jazz Composition/Arranging; Musicology or Conducting. For specific areas of study and a list of all required coursework, please contact:

Graduate Program Director
Department of Music and Dance
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9330
Phone: 413-545-2106
e-mail: rideout@music.umass.edu

Click here to read/download the Music Dept. GRADUATE HANDBOOK (WORD Document)

Click here for information about the GRADUATE STRING QUARTET PROGRAM.

Click here to go to the UMass Amherst Graduate School web page

Doctor of Philosophy in Music:
for students already holding a Masters in Music who intend to teach at the college level. On the Amherst campus, the degree concentrations are in Music Theory or Music Education only. For additional information about admissions and academic expections, please contact:

Graduate Program Director
Department of Music and Dance
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9330
e-mail: rideout@music.umass.edu

 

My educational experience at UMass was outstanding, professionally altering. It gave me a very, very positive and focused vision in terms of my career in public education. I think about UMass every day.

Joseph Filio MM '93
Band Director, Liverpool (NY) High School

 


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