Our fully accredited degrees offer you unrivaled opportunities to perform and study with New York City’s finest musicians and artist-teachers. Undergraduate and master’s students put theory to practice through supervised teaching internships in school and community music settings, while doctoral students prepare to teach at the college and university levels.
BM, Music Education
Prepare for a career as a music educator in PK–12 schools and get a liberal arts education, all while performing and studying in New York City and abroad.
BM, Music/MA, Music Education, Grades PK–12: Initial Certification
This dual degree allows you to earn a bachelor of music in Composition or Performance and a master of arts in Music Education in only five years.
MA, Teaching Music, Grades Pre-K–12: Initial Certification
Study applied music, theory, and pedagogy and complete student teaching in New York schools as you prepare for a career as an innovative Pre-K–12 music educator.
MA, Music Education
Pursue a career as an innovative music educator working in schools, community music settings in this non-certification program.
Post-Master’s Advanced Certificate, Professional Studies in Music
Our post-master’s certificate offers advanced classes in music education, performance, and more to further develop your career or prepare you for doctoral study.
PhD, Music Education: For College and University Faculty
Gain a thorough grounding in the significant issues and developing paradigms in music education as you prepare for a career in higher education.
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Community & Research
Our innovative community music outreach programs create music education collaborations in schools, non-profits, and corporate settings.
Helping Young People Follow Their Dreams: An Interview with Music Educator Melissa Morris (MA '00)
Melissa Morris (MA '00), award-winning music educator in the New York City public schools, discusses what music can teach us about diversity and what the pandemic has taught her about teaching.
Welcome Bobby Sanabria
An interview with Latin Jazz legend Bobby Sanabria.
Message from the MPAP Chair on Racism and Black Lives Matter
"It is time for us to take responsibility and to take concrete steps to make MPAP an academic performance community where diversity and inclusion are indispensable and at the core of our teaching, training, and learning."
All-University Jazz Orchestra Premieres New Composition
The orchestra remotely performed the premiere of a jazz mambo.
Alum Akini Gill Publishes Book
Akini A. Gill has published his first book, "From Behind the Bridge to the Impossible Dream."