First, I would encourage you to look at these things like an investment. How much earning potential do you have doing what you want versus the method of getting educated. Second, really make sure performance is your passion. I both did performance and private instruction and you very much can make a solid living doing it, but you have to be enterprising and entrepreneurial. Recently, I decided to switch it up a bit, but I still teach, still love music, and hope to do more with it.

If you want to perform, then perform. No one ever cared what kind of education I had - only that I could do the gig. What kind of music are you doing? Original, jazz, orchestral?

Can you finish your degree at the Christian college and be done?