Master's Degree in Music Performance

Degree Description

The Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music at Lamar University offers a Master of Music Degree with a concentration in Performance. This degree allows you, as a music performer, to advance your own musicianship and to develop new concepts that may be applied to your particular field.

Your graduate studies in music are optimized at LU as you work closely with faculty, ensembles and individual students, taking part in performance and teaching opportunities that only a music department of this size and a faculty of such outstanding caliber can offer. Watch the faculty interview with Department Chair Brian Shook to learn more about this program and the Department of Music.

Why Study Music at Lamar?

Accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, your Master of Music Degree with a concentration in Performance program in the Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music fully immerses you in the cultural study of music, composition, performance techniques, education, history and more. Here, you can sing in a chorus, go to a live performance, compose an original piece, enjoy music of various genres and play your instruments, all while refining your natural gifts and talents.

Surrounded by artistic institutions throughout our area, we strongly encourage you to participate in Southeast Texas’ cultural life. Some of our regional ensembles include the Symphony of Southeast Texas, Beaumont Interfaith Choral Society, Beaumont Community Players, Beaumont Ballet Theatre and the Beaumont Civic Ballet. Other opportunities lie in our rich variety of religious institutions, live music venues and community theatre companies, to name a few, that are always willing to have LU music students as performers - and some of those pay scholarships or stipends. Southeast Texas is an ideal place to study music in all its forms.