The mission of the ISME Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician is:
to engage in and promote a variety of activities in international and local settings that:

• focus on the professional musician as one who accepts responsibility for advancing and disseminating music as an integral part of life, and whose creation and performance of music reflects perception, understanding, appreciation, and mastery in a manner that conveys meaning to people;
• foster the recognition of the many modes of educating and training musicians, as those modes exist in various societies and cultures; and
• emphasise ways in which to enable present and future educators to employ modes of preparing musicians that reflect an awareness of the continually changing role of the musician.