Bring Your Passion for Music to Its Highest Level
Expand your world as a teacher or performer as you work with nationally recognized and award-winning professors. Whether your goal is to teach music at the university level, achieve your level II certification as a music teacher, or heighten your musicianship and technique for a career as a professional musician, IUP has the curriculum, faculty, and facilities to bring your passion for music to its highest level.
Education Specialization, MA Music
Designed for working K-12 teachers, IUP's online, low-residency music education master's offers online convenience during the school year and face-to-face contact during two-week, intensive summer sessions at IUP. This manageable two-year program will:
- Enhance your skills as a music teacher
- Provide the coursework for Level II Teaching Certification, a Pennsylvania credential
Performance Specialization, MA Music
For many, this is a stepping stone to a DMA. For others, it's a chance to work with a group of talented and accomplished artists, composers, and musicians. This on-campus two-year program will:
- Enhance your musicianship and technique
- Better prepare you for a career in the performing arts
Her Professor: Mentor, Influence, Inspiration
"Professor Mary Logan-Hastings has been the biggest inspiration to me. She was a very accomplished opera singer in Germany, and I just love all of the stories and life experiences she's shared with me. She encouraged me to enter a national music theater competition about two years ago that I know I wouldn't have entered on my own."
Leanna McGiboney, MA Music Performance
The IUP difference
Music faculty. Our 26 full-time and seven part-time faculty members may be distinguished by their diversity of scholarship, talent, and performance, but they are renowned for their commitment and dedication to their students. You'll receive the personal attention and instruction your talent deserves.
Music ensembles. One of the greatest assets of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance is its quality and variety of ensembles. Follow your passion and sing a role in one of our opera or music theater productions, or perform with the jazz bands, the IUP Orchestra, the Chorale, the Chamber Choir, or one or more of the many other ensembles we offer.
Cogswell Hall. Completely renovated, rearranged, and expanded to incorporate state-of-the-art technology and acoustics, Cogswell Hall is the heart of the Music, Theatre, and Dance Department, housing rehearsal spaces, practice rooms, studio space, classrooms, and a well-appointed music library. IUP is an all-Steinway school (93 total) and is home to a Pogorzelski-Yankee Memorial Organ. Our Performing Arts Center, right beside Cogswell Hall, features Fisher Auditorium. Another popular performance space, Gorell Recital Hall, is only two buildings away.
Meet the Coordinator
Matthew Baumer
mbaumer@iup.edu