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

Foto: Johannes Gellner
| Foto: Johannes Gellner

A master’s programme for contemporary singers: An in-depth course of training in the opportunities and challenges presented by vocal music and music theatre in the 20th and 21st centuries.

  • Voice lessons: Extended vocal techniques on the basis of classical voice training.
  • Performance art, expressive performance, chamber music, ensemble singing, students’ own works
  • Regular first performances of music theatre productions
  • Interdisciplinary projects: Music and dance theatre, opera, electronic music, improvisation
  • Introduction to fundamental aspects of music theory (compositional techniques, notation, writings on 20th century and contemporary music, historical overview and music aesthetics)
  • Collaboration with the PPCM - Instrumental programme: Regular concerts/performances in cooperation with Klangforum Wien
  • Opportunities to work with leading composers, singers and performers
  • Cooperation with contemporary music festivals and opera studios

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 7 Voice, Lied and Oratorio

 

Professors and equivalents

Falk, Holger Univ.Prof.   Professur für Perfomance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) - Vokal

 

 

 

Admission

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 voice.

Students who wish to apply for this Master's programme need the following artistic qualities:

• Curiosity: to develop oneself as a creative artist, inside and outside existing job profiles
• Enthusiasm: for music and music theater of the present
• Courage: to enter unknown territory
• Willingness: to participate in the development of contemporary music
• Exploring the boundaries: expressivity and intimacy, willingness to transgress aesthetic boundaries
• Performative expressions
• Interest: in other art forms and interdisciplinary projects
• Classical vocal training: Advanced vocal skills, flexibility in vocal dynamics, ambitus and timbres

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 7 to Mrs Ruth Kampel.

Here you can find the entrance exam requirements.   

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 Vocal MA

Further information

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