Strings
The strings section offers an internationally distinguished body of teachers. This bundles an extremely broad spectrum of experienced concertmasters in European symphony and chamber orchestras, as well as prominent chamber musicians in high-caliber ensembles, and successful soloists.
They guarantee a comprehensive instrumental education, which takes a look at historical performance practice up to experimental avant-garde and thus represents an inspiring artistic advancement.
Orchestra Studies and Open Chamber Music
In order to best prepare students for a modern, flexible professional life, two elements of the program are considering with particular awareness: 1) the Orchestral Studies area and 2) within chamber music education, the offer of "Open Chamber Music."
Orchestral Studies
The instruction in the subject "Orchestral Studies" serves as both audition preparation and preparation for the technical and musical demands of everyday life in a professional orchestra.
Orchestral Studies - excerpts from the orchestral repertoire of symphonic and operatic spheres - will be methodically studied and prepared in weekly lessons (depending on the audition or exam situation, also more often) over a long period of time. Musical and technical interests will be deepened. There is a close connection between the lessons and the program of the University Orchestra and its preparation. In audition training events, the audition situation is simulated and analyzed in an exchange between students and teachers, so that stimulation for a further path to audition preparation can also be conveyed here. The performance of orchestral excerpts is also required in exams in order to anchor this aspect of string education in the major.
Open Chamber Music
The traditional "Open Chamber Music" projects of the Trossingen string classes connect the passion of the string professors for chamber music and the shared music-making of teachers and students. Young musicians play better when they make music with experienced interpreters - more than 20 years ago, this experience was the initial spark for this working model, which has been successful up to the present day.
Once or twice per semester, professors study high-profile jewels of the repertoire from the Classical period up to the 20th century with selected students and perform them in the University and region, including in the exclusive concert series of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart. So far, significant works have been heard in quartet to octet instrumentation, from Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorák, Bruckner, Schönberg and Strauss.
Courses of Study
Bachelor
BA-I-20-5A: Orchestral instruments, artistic-pedagogical profile
BA-I-20-5B: Orchestral instruments, podium profile
BA-I-20-5C: Orchestral instruments, orchestral profile
BA-II-20-2A: Rhythmics with Elementary Music Pedagogy, Instrument, artistic-pedagogical profile
BA-II-20-2B: Rhythmics, Instrument, podium profile
BA-II-20-2C: Rhythmics with Elementary Music Pedagogy, Instrument Jazz-Pop, artistic-pedagogical profile
BA-II-20-2D: Rhythmics, Instrument Jazz-Pop, podium profile
BG-I-21-1: Bachelor Secondary School Education 2021
BG-II-21-1: Bachelor Emphasis Subject Jazz and Popular Music 2021
Secondary Profile
BA-ZP-20-2: Wind Ensemble Conducting
BA-ZP-20-3: Early Music
Master
MA-I-20-2A: Orchestral instruments - artistic-pedagogical immersion
MA-I-20-2B: Orchestral instruments - artistic immersion
MA-II-20-2: Chamber Music: Orchestral instruments
MA-II-20-3 Chamber Music: Fixed Ensemble
MA-VI-20-1: Orchestra
MA-VIII-20-1: New Music
MA-VII-20-1: Performance
MA-XIII-20-1: Rhythmics-Performance
MA-XIII-20-2: Rhythmics/ Elementary Music Pedagogy
MA-XIV-20-1: Music Education
MG-I-21-1: Master Secondary School Education 2021
MG-II-21-1: Master Secondary School Education with Emphasis Subject Jazz and Popular Music 2021
MG-III-21-1: Master Secondary School Education with Expansion Subject Jazz and Popular Music 2021
(all module handbooks are only available in German)