Bachelor of Music Katholische Kirchenmusik at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Programme overview

Bachelor of Music Katholische Kirchenmusik at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Centres on choir and orchestra conducting, artistic and liturgical organ playing, piano and voice, plus music-history, music-theory and theology subjects. The programme prepares for the profession of church musician. The programme runs for 8 semesters (4 years), 240 credits, taught at Köln.

Duration: 8 semesters (4 years) | Study mode: full-time; German-taught | Intake: Winter and summer semester | Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

Core module (main-subject tuition), artistic-practical context (orchestra, chamber music, secondary subject), education (ear training, music theory, musicology), mediation (didactics), professionalisation, bachelor thesis or interdisciplinary project, and a supplementary module; the first two years are a basic study phase with many compulsory modules, followed by a main study phase in years 3 and 4.

Career pathways

Prepares for the profession of church musician (Kirchenmusiker*in).

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Application information

Entry requirements

Allgemeine Hochschulreife or a comparable higher education entrance qualification; proof of German (TestDaF level 3) for non-German-speaking applicants; pass the entrance examination: artistic-practical examination in choral conducting, singing and speaking, organ literature, organ improvisation and piano (about 60 minutes in total) and ear training (written 60 minutes, oral about 15 minutes).

Intake: Winter and summer semester

Duration: 8 semesters (4 years)

Apply through the official page: https://www.hfmt-koeln.de/informationen-fuer/studieninteressierte/bewerbung/

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