Jazz Composition/Arrangement

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

Admission requirements

• Successfully completed Bachelor's degree or comparable degree in an affine subject.
• Students who have not graduated from 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

We expect for the aptitude test

• Submission of at least three scores for different instrumentations as PDF. These must be uploaded together with audio files (mp3) to the platform muvac (see above).
• Ad-hoc solution of a technical arrangement task (written exam)
• Discussion of the submitted scores.

Detailed information can be found in the Qualifying Examination Regulations, especially in the appendix for content requirements and conduct of the examination.

The two-year master's program has only a few mandatory components, such as ensemble conducting/conducting and instrumentation. Students are expected to develop their own tonal language and, to this end, have the opportunity, in close consultation with the main subject teachers, to compile their own individual study plans almost freely from the entire range of courses offered by the university. In addition, recommendations are made in the study plan for courses that seem to make sense in connection with the formulated study goal.

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

The music market in the jazz and pop sector is diverse and dynamic. The course content and advisory services are designed to optimally prepare students for this. The lecturers on the course support students
in planning their individual careers. The Bachelor's and Master's degree courses in jazz/pop qualify graduates to work successfully nationally and internationally as performing musicians, studio musicians, songwriters, composers, arrangers and producers, as well as in the field of artistic education. Typical fields of work can be commissioned compositions/arrangements for independent ensembles or ensembles under public law, such as radio jazz orchestras. Students are also encouraged to develop their own projects with a compositional focus.