MA Specialized Music Performance | Composition
Hochschule für Musik Basel
Institut Klassik | This course is aimed at advanced composers: it builds on a vocational qualification in Composition with corresponding competencies. It enables students to specialise at the highest level. sonic space basel students from every conceivable facet of contemporary music practice and international cooperation partners offer the ideal environment for the collaborative realisation of proprietary creations.
- Highly modular curriculum, including individual tuition, promotes individual specialisations in the field of contemporary music
- Hands on in the concert hall – accompaniment of your own compositions up to and including performance teaches you how to deal with concert situations
- sonic space basel means cross-disciplinary approaches and collaborative working, with a strong focus on peer-to-peer learning
Steckbrief
Zukunftsaussichten
Learning outcome
The educational goals of the MA SP Composition programme are – in addition to expanding one's own catalogue of works – to develop a strong ability to reflect on one's own actions and creative work, to confidently engage in collaborative working methods, to acquire a sound knowledge of the professional field, and to develop strong communication skills in dealing with ensembles, orchestras, concert organisers, management offices and relevant players in the free market.
Career prospects
Holders of an MA in Specialised Music Performance with a Composition Major are equipped to position themselves as an individual voice in the greater context of the contemporary music Scene.
Target audience
This Master’s programme is aimed at composers who already hold a professional qualification in composition and wish to specialize at the highest level within the comprehensive artistic and network technology possibilities offered by sonic space basel.
Aufbau und Inhalte
Independent project work
The highly modularised curriculum gives composers
plenty of scope for independent activity in projects both on and off campus, allowing them to tailor their studies to their individual needs. At sonic space basel, they meet advanced master's students from the fields of performance, audio design, composition and open creation. In joint, interdisciplinary and collaborative projects, they help shape the cross-disciplinary discourse. A focus on the Electronic Studio Basel is also possible.
Specials
- As part of sonic space basel, an environment of top performers who are capable of professionally executing the most demanding compositions.
- Eduard Brunner Composition Prize: Every year, one of our students is awarded a composition prize worth CHF 5,000 as part of an internal sonic space basel competition.
- Annual artistic collaboration with a university outside Switzerland
Modules and Reglements
The BA and MA degree programs at the Basel Academy of Music are based on modules.
The legally binding structure provides an initial guide to the content and weighting of the subjects on the degree program.
The detailed content and modalities of the individual subjects can be found in the module descriptions.
The study regulations come into force together with the study and examination regulations of the Basel Academy of Music FHNW and form the legal framework.
Vertiefungen
International
Leitung und Dozierende
Leitung und Koordination sonic space basel: Komposition, Musiktheorie, Audiodesign, Open Creation, Performance Zeitgenössische Musik und Neue Musiktheorie
Johannes Kreidler
Lecturer for composition
Prof. Dr. phil. Michel Roth
Lecturer for composition and music theory
Prof. Caspar Johannes Walter
Lecturer for composition
Dozierende Klassik
Unsere international renommierten Dozierenden auf einen Blick.
Voraussetzungen, Zulassung, Eignungsabklärung
Admission criteria
In order to enter the FHNW Master of Arts in Specialized Music Performance programme with a Composition Major, applicants must be awarded a Bachelor in Composition or equivalent as well as they have to have passed the entrance exam and were offered a free place at the Academy (limited places).
Applicants who have submitted all the necessary registration documents in time and have passed the first round of the entrance exam will be invited to play a live audition.
For further information on the admission criteria, please see the Study regulation of the Master of Arts FHNW in Specialized Music Performance.
- Excellent grounding in composition and/or music theory
- Great potential to develop a distinctive artistic identity capable of taking an analytical and reflective approach to one’s work
- List of works and/or list of theoretical and analytical works and publications
- Ability to engage reflectively with music and to contextualise one’s own thought and ideas within a historical-sociological framework)
- Particular aptitude for academic study and artistic research-based work
Language Skills
We expect students to have sufficient German language skills at the beginning of the studies. Students who are not German native speakers must present an A2 German language certificate according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at the beginning of the studies. This certificate must be complete, i.e. all modules (reading, listening, writing, speaking) have been tested separately and passed at least at level A2 overall. Only certificates that have been certified with the ALTE-Q-Mark seal of approval (e.g. the A2 certificate of the Goethe-Institut or the telc certificate) are accepted.
The required certificate A2 must be submitted with the confirmation of admission but not later than 31st May. Exceptions will be decided upon by the head of degree programme.
Organisatorisches
sonic space basel
sonic space basel is a Platform of Basel Academy of Music for Audio Design (BA and MA), Composition (BA and MA and MA SP), MA SP Contemporary Music, BA Music Theory Major, MA MP Music Theory, MA SP New Music Theory, MA SP Open Creation and Research.
We consider ourselves a laboratory, a communication tool and an information hub for contemporary music.
Projects / Ensembles
At Hochschule für Musik Basel, students have the opportunity to participate in various project and ensemble programmes.
To the overview of the recurring offers.
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