MA Music Pedagogy | instrument / voice | Contemporary Music
Hochschule für Musik Basel
Thinking of choosing a specialisation or Music Pedagogy as a second master’s degree? Why not both? Students who have already completed a master’s degree in Performance, instrument/voice have the opportunity to combine their artistic specialisation in the field of Contemporary Music with a teaching qualification for their own instrument as part of an MA in Music Pedagogy. This dual profile expands your professional opportunities considerably: you develop a wide repertoire of performance skills in the implementation of contemporary music and teaching skills with your instrument/voice.
- The combined master’s degree – Contemporary Artistic Focus and Music Pedagogy Consolidating contemporary music as the artistic main subject after completing an MA Musical Performance, instrument/voice
- Instrument and voice performance across the full spectrum of contemporary music performance
- Practical teaching qualification for individual and group tuition
Steckbrief
Zukunftsaussichten
Learning outcomes
The FHNW Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy with an Instrumental/Vocal Major focusses on nurturing the students’ artistic identity and providing them with the skills needed to share their musical expertise with different audiences. Students learn to engage with music at a deeper and more complex level and encouraged to develop their own unique ‘voice’. They also acquire the pedagogical-didactic skills needed to provide professional jazz tuition at all levels.
The programme pursues two objectives:
Professional performer
Students develop the basics necessary to perform in public and to independently plan and deliver performances to a professional standard in the major Contemporary Music: The core competencies on the instrument, in singing, in the field of contemporary music creation and ensemble work acquired in the vocal or instrumental performance Master's programme in piano or singing are pursued to a level that matches the highest international levels. By this way, exceptional standards may be achieved on the national and international concert stage and at competitions.
Teaching music
In addition to the artistic training in Contemporary Music, the practice-oriented, concentrated pedagogical training enables the students to teach the instrument studied in the first master's programme professionally in individual and group lessons at musical educational institutions or independently at all levels.
Career prospects
The Master's degree in Music Pedagogy instrument/voice (second artistic Major Contemporary music) allows students to acquire a dual profile:
The degree programme equips students to pursue a career as a professional performer in a contemporary music ensemble or in the open music scene. It also provides them with the knowledge and skills to set up their own ensembles, design and curate concert series and other performance formats, and successfully market their ventures on both analogue and digital platforms. Furthermore, the pedagogical Master's qualification enables them to teach their instrument in music education institutions as well as independently.
Nearly all music schools in Switzerland now require prospective teaching staff to have a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy (or an equivalent qualification).
Target audience
This study programme is aimed at musicians who wish to build on their comprehensive instrumental/vocal training by specialising in the field of the Contemporary Music, with a view to a career in this field. Enrolment in the corresponding Master's programme in Music Pedagogy instrument/voice requires a Master's degree in vocal or instrumental performance and enables students to combine their artistic profile with a Master's degree in pedagogy for their own instrument. The second artistic major replaces the artistic major instrumental/vocal.
Aufbau und Inhalte
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 programme.
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
Prof. Annekatrin Klein
Leiterin MA Musikpädagogik instrumental/vokal / diverse Lehrveranstaltungen
Musikpädagogische Fächer
Dozierende der pädagogischen Fächer
Dozierende Zeitgenössische Musik
Teaching staff
Our internationally renowned teaching staff
to teaching staff
Voraussetzungen, Zulassung, Eignungsabklärung
Admission criteria
In order to enter the FHNW Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy programme with a Contemporary Music major, applicants must be awarded with a Master in Music Performance with an instrumental/vocal major or equivalent as well as they must 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 Studienreglement of the Master of Arts FHNW in Music Pedagogy.
Required skills
- Excellent knowledge of the “classical/classic” repertoire on own instrument.
- High instrumental proficiency.
- Independent, artistic ability and high level of motivation to develop and hone an individual repertoire.
- High level of motivation to engage with different forms of contemporary music and their aesthetic, technical and historical context.
- Pedagogical interest and appropriate aptitude
Language Skills
We expect students to have very good German language skills at the beginning of the studies. Students who are not German native speakers must present at least a B1 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 B1 overall. Only certificates that have been certified with the ALTE-Q-Mark seal of approval (e.g. the B1 certificate of the Goethe-Institut or the telc certificate) are accepted. The required certificate B1 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
More Study variations
Students are able to graduate the pedagogic education on their instrument/voice and chose the following alternative artistic Major
-> Falls möglich, Elemente anteasern, sonst Liste einfügen (wichtig: per Schlagwort)
Verlinkung für Annekatrin: alle Zweitmaster
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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