The article discusses the culture of self-education of music teacher as a professionally necessary quality of a modern specialist in the field of music education. The author proposes finalized definitions of basic concepts; consistently reveals the essence, structure, criteria and indicators of self-culture of music teacher; reveals the potential of conducting and choral disciplines as pedagogical tool. As the mechanism of formation of pedagogical culture of self-education of the future music teacher the author's model is suggested. The results of its experimental testing in terms of educational practice prove the effectiveness of the study.