60 Part-time Master's degrees in Music Performance

The University of Sheffield offers a Master of Arts (MA) in Music Performance Studies. This programme lasts for one year and can be pursued either full-time or part-time. It is designed to cultivate your skills as a classical music performer, enhancing your stylistic awareness and preparing you for public recitals.

The Vocal Performance - Classical Voice and Vocal Pedagogy M.Sc. at New York University offers intensive training for aspiring performers and educators. This full-time or part-time programme combines advanced vocal technique with pedagogical theory. Students develop professional repertoire and teaching skills over four semesters.

The Performance Teaching programme from Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a Masters-level course designed to support professional musicians, actors, production artists and dancers who teach as part of their practice, either as their main employment or as part of a portfolio career.

Performance from University of Malta is designed if you are seeking to specialise in any one of the areas on offer. You will be required to follow study-units that are directly related to your chosen area of specialisation. 

The Performance Design programme offered by University of Leeds explores scenography and performance-making from various perspectives informed by current research and innovative practices, including immersive and participatory forms of performance design, design-led performance, audience experience and contemporary spectatorship.

The Fort Hays State University offers a degree in Music - Performance. Students pursuing an MLS with a concentration in Music will work closely with advisors to select courses that meet their professional needs, based on their current achievements and future goals.

The Music Performance degree at University of Chichester will support you to enhance and perfect your performance. You will explore the work of specialists in your own performance field, develop a lecture recital and research relevant areas of repertoire and performance practice.

Expand on your musical achievements or gain advanced skills to teach in the performing arts with a Master of Music in Performance in Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance.

The Vocal Performance - Classical Voice M.Sc. at New York University offers intensive training for aspiring performers. This 32-credit master's degree focuses on opera and recital excellence through private instruction and staged productions. Students engage in full-time or part-time study within a world-class musical environment.

Music (Performance) from University of Sydney places a high emphasis on its research activity, with a vibrant and diverse community of staff and students.  

The Audiences, Engagement, Participation PGDip at the University of Leeds is a one-year full-time programme designed to explore cultural participation and engagement. This degree aims to enhance your understanding of audience dynamics and is delivered on campus, providing a comprehensive learning experience.

At Music Studies (Opera Performance) from University of Sydney you will develop and refine the technical and interpretive qualities of the voice as an operatic instrument, developing self-sufficiency in repertoire choice and role selection, preparation, and performance, with a strong focus on text-related matters to foster skills as an interpreter in operatic languages.

Music Studies (Performance) from University of Sydney will provide you with a command of relevant performance technique and the ability to communicate through musical performance, including orchestral and solo instruments, early music, jazz and contemporary music.

At the Innovative Music Performance program offered by Oulu University of Applied Sciences you willl learn to execute creative shows in unique live events! Innovative Music Performance is a one-year graduate master’s degree programme that combines various disciplines to amplify the performance abilities of musicians and foster their research capabilities.

Create innovative new theatre by cultivating your dramaturgical skills, performance training and critical thinking. Gain confidence in facilitation and community engagement to reach your audiences. Build your networks and industry knowledge through placement study. Emerge with a well-rounded skillset that prepares you to make, perform and facilitate creative work for the contemporary cultural environment.

Experimental Performance at Birmingham City University course is to provide you with knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed in your chosen branch(es) of the music profession, giving you a head-start in addressing the challenges involved in becoming a professional musician.

Performance is about connection. It’s the moment technique meets emotion, when music becomes something shared. This Music Performance course at University of Huddersfield helps you deepen that connection and grow as an expressive, confident performer.

There are three options available in this Music Conducting concentration at University of Texas El Paso, depending on the candidate's specialization: Wind Conducting, Choral Conducting, or Orchestral Conducting.

Combine intensive instrumental study with critical self-reflection. Develop your artistic identity and become an accomplished and expressive player. The Music Performance - Instrumental Studies programme is offered at University of York.

The Instrumental Performance programme at Birmingham City University is suitable for both recent graduates and suitably qualified mature students, with a range of support to ensure that you leave Royal Birmingham Conservatoire ready to pursue a musical career.