Master of Music Jazz-Komposition/Arrangement at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Programme overview

Jazz-Komposition/Arrangement Handwerk und Stilbildung. at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. A non-consecutive two-year specialising Master's in composition and arrangement for graduates of a Bachelor of Music in an instrument or voice (or equivalent such as Diplom), with few compulsory components such as ensemble direction/conducting and instrumentation. The programme runs for 4 semesters (2 years), 120 credits, taught at Köln.

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years) | Study mode: full-time; German-taught | Intake: Winter semester | Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

Few compulsory components such as ensemble direction/conducting and instrumentation; students develop their own sound language and select freely from the university's offering in close consultation with their main-subject teachers.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission requires a completed Bachelor's degree or comparable study in a related subject; applicants whose degree was not earned at a German-language institution must show sufficient German; pass the entrance examination: submission of at least three scores for different line-ups as PDF with audio files via muvac, an ad-hoc arranging task (written) and a discussion of the submitted scores.

Intake: Winter semester

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)

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

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