Jazz and Popular Music
In Trossingen, you can study jazz and popular music as a second subject (beginning of the program recommended at least by the 5th semester). The music and movement bachelor degree is also offered with a focus on jazz and popular music.
The Broadening Subject Has Emancipated Itself as a Real Secondary Subject
The jazz-pop broadening subject has outgrown its infancy. What once began with just a few students and teachers is now a success story of the past twenty years with now 31 students and 13 teachers, increasing concert activity with sold-out shows, and it brings students from Freiburg, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe to get a comprehensive education in the field of pop music - not only as artistic subject, but in many other disciplines.
For a long time, this broadening subject has opened itself in Trossingen to all types of popular music. The Landeszentrum, the Music Design program, and the media literacy offering provide many possibilities in the digital area, which has now become a permanent part of the curriculum. Each Winter Semester always has a motto or focuses on a genre/era/style/composer and themes like 60s Soul, 80s (A Tribute To Prince and David Bowie), Latin, Jazz (all styles), Heavy Metal, Rock are worked, viewed, analyzed, arranged, practiced and recorded in an interdisciplinary way.
The broadening subject is not equivalent to an academic subject, but rather exactly like this: A real secondary subject with the pillars of art, academics, and pedagogy.
Cooperation with the Music Design program, the MBS Studio in Villingen, with the Hochschule Furtwangen (Professor Matthias Reusch), workshops with guest lecturers such as Jiggs Whigham, Duško Goykovich, Nils H. Pedersen, Patrick Bach, Jörg Sommer, Tobias Hug and many others expand and enrich the subject canon.