Master's Programme Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) - Instrumental

Foto: Johannes Gellner
| Foto: Johannes Gellner

Klangforum Wien mentors young musicians on the subjects strings, winds and percussion instruments as well as harp, piano and accordion, passing on its many years of experience in the field of contemporary music making.

Key emphasis will be on

  • Instrumental instruction, solo repertoire, playing techniques, chamber music, ensemble performance
  • Collaboration with composers of renown such as Beat Furrer, Gerd Kühr, Georg Friedrich Haas, Bernhard Lang, Klaus Lang and others
  • Interdisciplinary projects – music and dance theatre, opera, electronics, improvisation
  • Regular concerts/performance practice together with Klangforum Wien
  • Background knowledge in music theory, compositional techniques, notation, publications of new music, historical overview and aesthetics

Details

Course Number: UV 066 710
Length of Study: 4 semesters (120 ECTS)
Degree: Matster of Arts (MA)

Qualification profile
Curriculum
Credit hours
Courses

Schedule for the academic year
Description of the types of courses of KUG

Application & Admission

Start of study: Winter semester & Summer semester

Application deadlines & Admission exam dates

Admission requirements & Admission test

Online registration
Instructions for online registration

Institutes

Courses are held at the following institute(s):

Institute 1 Composition, Theory of Music, History of Music and Conducting

 

 

Professors and equivalents

Klangforum Wien

 

 

Admission

For the Master's Programme PPCM - Instrumental all candidates (without exception) have to take an audition in the chosen instrument.

If you want to register for the entrance exam, please apply online within the respective application. Please submit the required documents in the course of the online application!

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

For all external applicantsfor the Master's Programmes the following applies:

In the course of the required online application we need the following documents in time to the application deadline, in order to be able to forward your documents to our Dean of Studies for checking the equivalency of your preliminary studies:

  • Your Bachelor's Diploma Certificate telling your academic degree (on your University´s letter paper and with your University´s stamps/seals and signatures)
  • Official German (English is also OK) translation* of the Bachelor's Diploma Certificate
  • Your Bachelor's final examination Certificate (on your University's letter paper and with your University's stamps/seals and signatures)  
  • Official German (English is also OK) translation* of the Bachelor's final examination Certificate
  • Your Transcript of Records (Diploma Supplement / Academic Record / complete list of all subjects that you have passed, the credits/semester hours and grades on your University´s letter paper and with your University´s stamps/seals and signatures)
  • Official German (English is also OK) translation* of your Transcript of Records / Diploma Supplement / Academic Records / list of subjects

Please also pay attention to any required diplomatic legalization* of your documents!
*  Information sheet from the Welcome Center

Only after the Dean of Studies has confirmed the equivalency of your preliminary studies you will be notified for the entrance exam.

Please note, that your major artistic subject has to be mentioned in your documents. Otherwise, please submit a confirmation about your major artistic subject issued by your University (on your University's letter paper and with your University's stamps/seals and signatures) in addition.

ENTRANCE EXAM

Admission requires the completion of a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent Study Programme in Viola, Violin, Violoncello, Double Bass, Flute (with its variant instruments), Clarinet (with its variant instruments), Oboe/English Horn, Bassoon, Saxophone, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion Instruments, Piano or Accordion.

Please note that not every instrument is offered to each entrance exam date! Here you can find the entrance exam requirements.

In case you need an accompanist, you have to submit the appropriate music score in time to the respective application deadline in advance to the institute 1 to Mrs Ferdinanda Anhofer.

ADMISSION

Please mind: After passing the entrance exam you are not automatically admitted to the Degree Programme – the enrolment has to be carried out in due time via e-mail! See also "First steps to becoming a student"!

Entrance Exam Prerequisites (PDF)
PPCM - Instrumental MA

Further information

Any questions or comments? This page is edited by the Registrar´s Office of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.