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Bachelor Kirchenmusik at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany

Programme overview

Eight-semester Bachelor programme in church music at the Institut für Kirchenmusik, leading on to the Master Kirchenmusik.

Duration: 8 semesters (4 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; artistic study programme  |  Intake: Winter and summer semester  |  Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

What you will study

Main subject tuition in organ and conducting; further subjects: voice, music theory, aural training, musicology, church-music-specific subjects, university choir, pedagogical subjects for church music and elective modules.

Career pathways

Professional church musician.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Entrance audition: organ (two chorale preludes from Bach's Orgelbüchlein, a free Bach work, a work from the 19th or 20th century, sight-reading, hymn harmonisation) and conducting (rehearsing and conducting a simple to medium-difficulty choral piece), plus written and oral tests in aural training and music theory. Deadlines: 1 November (summer semester) and 1 April (winter semester); registration fee EUR 50. Sufficient German language skills are assessed for international applicants.

Intake: Winter and summer semester

Duration: 8 semesters (4 years)

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