Conducting - Choir conducting
Artistic core area in the full-time Master's 1 (podium and orchestra) or part-time Master's 4 (stage and orchestra practice)
Degree programme model Degree programmes Artistic core areas
Great careers begin with a decision:
Mastery begins with lots of practice
Develop your choral conducting skills and take advantage of the many opportunities to conduct rehearsals and concerts yourself – either full-time (Master 1) or part-time alongside your career (Master 4).
The Master's programme in Choral Conducting offers a wide range of options:
- Professionalisation of conducting and rehearsal techniques
- Sound shaping
- Examination of complex works from different eras and genres (a cappella, oratorio, choral symphony, opera)
- Aspects such as structure, development and working with different ensembles
- Rehearsal visits to professional ensembles
- Workshops with renowned choir directors
In our Master's programme, you will learn all the skills you need to perform artistically demanding concerts with qualified ensembles.
The Master's programme is aimed at anyone with advanced knowledge, ideally through a completed degree in
- Church music
- Secondary school education (music)
- Bachelor's degree in choral music
The following criteria will be evaluated during the entrance examination:
- Performance of a piano reduction (playing and singing), e.g. J. S. Bach, Kreuzstabkantate, Johannes Brahms, Requiem
- Piano solo performance, e.g. a medium to difficult sonata by L. v. Beethoven (prepared)
- Choir rehearsal of an assigned work (four hours of preparation) (duration: approx. 30 minutes)
- Colloquium (including questions on choir conducting)
