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Welcome to the โ€œConductors Studio ZHdKโ€!


The education in the Conductors Studio ZHdK includes conducting courses in the โ€œBachelor of Arts in Musicโ€, โ€œMaster of Arts in Music Performanceโ€ and โ€œMaster of Arts in Specialized Music Performanceโ€.

Music studies at ZHdK take place at one of the largest integrated art colleges in Europe. Students are guided by excellent lecturers and benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure. The flexible and permeable study programme and the broad networking with the professional world offer optimal conditions for the start of a professional career.


Degree programmes


Lecturers


Lecturer


Further lecturers
Jonathan Ayerst
Andreas Brenner (Aural training)
Andrรฉ Fischer (Analysis)


Guest lecturer 2024โ€“2025
Johannes Schlaefli


Impressions


Orchestra

Orchestral practice plays a central role at the ZHdK. The representative university formations โ€œOrchester der ZHdKโ€ and the ensemble for contemporary music โ€œArc-en-Cielโ€ and the polivalent โ€œKammerensemble der ZHdKโ€ enrich the cultural offerings in the greater Zurich area.


Masterclasses

Public masterclasses are held regularly at the ZHdK. Here, outstanding musical personalities from the fields of creation, interpretation and reflection can be experienced in intensive work with students.

Historically Informed Performance Practice


Contemporary Music

The Studio Contemporary Music is one of the institutions within ZHdK with the most public events. Many questions that recur in scores of older music can be directly posed and negotiated in contemporary music.


Career Centre Music

The Career Center Music offers ZHdK music students a whole host of career-related content, enabling them to embark upon their professional life with success. It acts as the interface between study and career. 


Infrastructure

Students at the ZHdK Musik benefit from an excellent infrastructure, live electronics and multimedia, audio productions with in-house sound engineers, historical instrument collections, an extensive equipment pool for loan and an excellent library.


Campus tour


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