What is a Master of Music in Music Composition degree?

Why earn this degree at Redlands?

With an emphasis on real-world experience, the University of Redlands’ Master of Music degree in Music Composition prepares aspiring composers for meaningful lives as impactful musical professionals. Our four-year composition program is grounded in a rigorous conservatory training that values composition practice, creative inquiry, and community engagement through a diverse array of classes and pre-professional opportunities. Enjoy live performances of your music from our award-winning, faculty-led large ensembles. Collaborate with student filmmakers, animators, and video game designers through our dedicated partnership with the students and faculty at Woodbury University’s School of Media: Culture: Design. And engage with leading voices in our field through the Loewe Fellowship, which brings America’s preeminent composers to Redlands for a week-long residency with our students.

Through our focus on high standards and compassionate teaching, we work with each of our students as artists first, helping them discover, through hard work, guided focus, and encouragement, their truest and most enthralling musical work.

For application and audition information, contact Brad Andrews, Director of Admissions for the School of Performing Arts, at brad_andrews@redlands.edu or (909) 748-8014.