1305 Performing Arts Masters Degree Programs

Hone your filmmaking talents and forge career connections with the MA in Film and Media program at Johns Hopkins University. The program includes 11 courses that you can complete in 16 to 24 months. You'll engage in a highly collaborative experience led by award-winning writers, producers, sound professionals, and creators. Plus, select the concentration that matches your passion: Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies, Sound Design, The Business of Film, or Writing. Learn more today.

Study a Master of Arts in Music Management. This Media and Communication Management M.A. programme is taught entirely in English at our Macromedia campus in Berlin, Germany.

Turn your passion for film into an international career: learn to direct, produce, and tell visual stories with impact in Hollywood, Europe, and worldwide.

The Performing Arts Study programme aims to develop highly qualified creative artists, and music performers (instrumentalists, singers, soloists, musicians of diverse ensembles, and orchestra conductors), who will have an impact upon the musical (cultural) tradition not only through their creative works and other artistic means, professionally performing works solo and in ensembles and orchestras of various compositions, but also by analyzing, commenting on, personally developing individual creative activities, searching for the most influential artistic work interpretations, fostering historical traditions of the music art and influencing the musical development processes.

The East London Visual Arts and Film program is designed for a new generation of storytellers: artists who share a passion for visual and performing arts across a wide array of media and want to learn by making their own projects in a hands-on, intensive program.

Elevate your career in the performing arts with the NUS one-year Master of Arts (Theatre and Performance Studies). This programme blends academic rigor with industry insights, offering hands-on learning in traditional and contemporary theatre and performance. Gain critical thinking, research, and digital skills from globally recognized experts, preparing you for roles in arts education, cultural leadership, and beyond.

This Master's programme offers two specializations: one in Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures and another in Theatre, Culture and Media studies. Each specialization encompasses both emergent and historically established practices in music and theatre and the performing arts.

As one of the largest graduate programs of its kind in the country, Emerson College’s on-campus Theatre Education & Applied Theatre MA and MFA programs prepare you to use theatre to create learning experiences that transform lives and communities. Housed in the Department of Performing Arts in the School of the Arts, the programs allow you to grow and refine your craft as an artist and an educator. Coursework focuses on principles like social justice, anti-racism, and youth-led activism. We offer three graduate programs, an MA in Theatre Education & Applied Theatre, an MA in Theatre Education: Licensure, and an MFA in Theatre Education & Applied Theatre.

The Master’s program in Scenography – Production Design at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) is a two-year, English-language course designed for graduates of scenography, architecture, design, or related visual-spatial disciplines.

The Master’s program in Scenography – Theatre Scenography at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) is a two-year, full-time course conducted in English, designed for graduates in scenography, fine arts, architecture, or related disciplines who wish to expand their creative, technical, and conceptual skills in the field of stage design.

The Humanities Graduate Program provides post-baccalaureate students the opportunity to study the traditional humanities fields--philosophy, literature, history, music, and art--in the context of contemporary interdisciplinary topics, as well as in courses devoted to the methodology and current concerns of specific disciplines. Courses enable the critical evaluation of the visual and performing arts, as well as the ideas, cultures and individuals which have shaped our society. Program courses are designed around the theme of the city. Skills in advanced writing, research, and presentation are exercised in seminars and in a final research or creative project.

The MSc Cultural & Creative Industries provides students with deep theoretical and empirical knowledge of the creative and cultural sector. Covering every branch of the cultural sector, from music and cinema to literature and the visual and performing arts, this Master of Science provides and in-depth view of not only the management of the arts but also the economic, social and cultural issues raised by the current transformation in these industries.

Come and study at one of the best performing arts universities in the world. As a master’s student in opera coaching, you will engage in close-knit cooperation with master’s students of opera. Upon graduation, you will be a versatile professional in opera music and able to take responsibility for large-scale music coaching projects and piano performances.

Come and study at one of the best performing arts universities in the world. With organ as your major subject, you will focus on performance skills, improvisation, and organ pedagogy. Major subject studies in the organ are organized by the Department of Church Music, which is a close-knit and welcoming community of over 160 students.

Take time and space to develop your artistic voice by joining our MA Performance and Theatre Making. Firmly embedded in Kent’s thriving creative landscape, this course is aimed at graduates from theatre and performing arts degrees and other related subjects, as well as artists in theatre/performance who wish to take some time to develop or re-connect with their practice.

Two recitals of 75 minutes each plus a mini-dissertation.

We provide new perspectives and approaches for the evolving field of arts and culture. Studies in Arts Management, Society, and Creative Entrepreneurship include major courses in arts and society, cultural policy, strategic management and leadership, creative and cultural entrepreneurship as well as arts management research and methodologies. Students will also be given the opportunity for personal professional development.