School of Music Graduate Programs

General Information

Summer 2012 graduate courses in music.

Thank you for your interest in the graduate program at the University of Southern Maine School of Music.

USM offers the Master of Music degree in:

• Composition
• Conducting
• Jazz Studies
• Music Education
• Performance

The University of Southern Maine School of Music is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

 

 

Message from the Director:

On behalf of the University of Southern Maine School of Music I am pleased to announce the beginning of its new, long-anticipated graduate program in music. The faculty and staff are eager to welcome graduate students to the Gorham campus. Students in the master of music in music education degree program will begin taking classes this summer, and a small number of students in the other areas will join us this fall.

 "My God," Paul Hindemith once observed, "How can anyone ever be a master of music?" Music is a limitless art and an inexhaustible field of study. The one thing every graduate student will discover with equal intensity is that the more one learns about music, the more one realizes how little he or she knows. But students will also find that music can yield delight as surely in the solitude of the library stacks or the practice room as in the concert hall, the opera stage, or the jazz club. 

I hope you find this web site helpful. We will continue to add new material to this site to support graduate study in music at USM throughout the year. We welcome your questions and would be happy to provide more information and assistance to any student who wishes to apply to the program or who wants to take a course or two.

Scott Harris, Director

USM School of Music

 

Graduate Program Advisors 

Please feel free to contact the program advisor for more information on the specific area of study in which you are interested. Click on the name to contact them by e-mail.

 

Music Education: Prof. Michele Kaschub

 

Conducting:

            Choral: Prof. Robert Russell

            Wind: Prof. Peter Martin

            Orchestral: Prof. Robert Lehmann

 

Composition: Prof. E. Scott Harris

 

Jazz Studies: Prof. Christopher Oberholtzer

 

Performance:

            Piano/Organ: Prof. Laura Kargul

            Brass/Percussion: Prof. Peter Martin

            Woodwinds: Prof. Thomas Parchman

            Strings: Prof. Robert Lehmann

            Voice: Prof. Bruce Fithian and Prof. Ellen Chickering

 

 

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