Master of Music -
Catholic Church Music

Applications are submitted online via the muvac platform. All information on the procedure can be found on our application page.

Admission requirement

• A Bachelor's degree in church music or a comparable degree in a traditional, undergraduate academic program (e.g. church music diploma) is required.
• Students who have not earned their degree at a German-speaking institution must prove that they have sufficient German language skills (min. level A2 according to the European Framework of Reference).
• Successfully passed aptitude test

Qualifying examination

The aptitude test is an artistic-practical examination with an approximate duration of 20 minutes, in which skills in organ, choral conducting, improvisation and singing must be presented. Detailed information can be found in the Qualifying Examination Regulations, especially in the appendix for content requirements and conduct of the examination. Application for the program can be made for either the winter semester or the summer semester. The application deadline is either 01.03. (winter semester) or 01.10. (summer semester) each year.

In the postgraduate studies Master Church Music, the knowledge acquired in the Bachelor (or Diploma) program is expanded. In the 3rd and 4th semesters there is also a deepening of a self-selected core module in the subject of choral conducting, orchestral conducting, children's choral conducting, organ or liturgical organ playing.

You can find a list of our lecturers on the following page.

The following organs are used in the college for practice and lessons:

• Klais/Thomas III/47
• Schuke - III/38
• Ahrend - II/19
• Cavaille Coll/Mutin - II/12
• Eule - III/6 (various alternating loops)
• Rohlf - II/5

Outside the university there are possibilities to use various instruments of the diverse Cologne church landscape. In particular:

• St. Kunibert, Kuhn - III/42
• Trinitatiskirche, Klais - III/44, inauguration January 2010
• Cathedral, Klais - IV/89 and III/53 (students of the university play regularly at the weekday noon prayers in the cathedral)

The church music degree courses at the university offer you a broad and comprehensive musical education. This qualifies you to take on outstanding positions in church music on the one hand, but also to specialize, for example by taking up Master's courses in the diverse subjects of church music studies.