MA Music Pedagogy | instrument / voice | Wind Orchestra Conducting

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 Wind Orchestra Conducting: Students will leverage their existing instrumental proficiency gained in the instrumental performance Master's programme and experience in ensemble work to expand their conducting repertoire and hone their instrument-playing and score-reading abilities.

Teaching music

In addition to the artistic specialisation in Wind Orchestra Conducting, the practice-oriented, concentrated pedagogical training enables the students to teach the instrument or voice studied in the first master's programme professionally in individual and group lessons at musical educational institutions, grammar schools or independently at all levels.

Career prospects

The Master's degree in Music Pedagogy instrument/voice (second artistic Major Wind Orchestra Conducting) allows students to acquire a dual profile:
Graduates are qualified to lead wind orchestras, brass bands and wind ensembles, whether amateur, semi-professional or professional. Furthermore, graduates will acquire a Master's degree in instrumental and vocal pedagogy for their own instrument and will then be qualified to teach this subject 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

The FHNW Master of Arts in Specialised Music Performance with a Wind Orchestra Conducting is aimed at students who hold a Bachelor degree in Music and who wish to specialise in wind orchestra conducting. The second artistic major replaces the artistic major instrumental/vocal.

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.

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Prof. Annekatrin Klein

Leiterin MA Musikpädagogik instrumental/vokal / diverse Lehrveranstaltungen

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Prof. Beat Hofstetter

Studiengangsleiter BA und MA Schulmusik I und II | MA Spezialisierte Performance Chorleitung & Blasorchesterdirektion

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‍Bjørn Sagstad

Dozent für Blasorchesterdirektion

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Fachdidaktik

Dozierende der pädagogischen Fächer

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Teaching staff

Our internationally renowned teaching staff
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Admission criteria

In order to enter the FHNW Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy programme with a Wind Orchestra Conducting 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

• Basic knowledge of conducting and rehearsal techniques
• Piano and score-playing proficiency
• Ability to analyse a score for a wind orchestra
• Knowledge of the seminal works in the wind orchestra repertoire
• 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 31 Mai. Exceptions will be decided upon by the head of degree programme.

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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)
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‍Verlinkung für Annekatrin: alle Zweitmaster

• BOD
• COL
• KM
• LG
• OC
• ZM

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.

Quicklinks

• Welcome: A brief overview
• Studying in Switzerland
• Tuition fees & Financing
• Scholarship
• Module descriptions

Files and Regulations

• Dates Entrance Exam on Site
• List of works for Entrance Exam
• Study Regulations
• Semester dates