Educational objectives and professional fields

Educational objectives.

The degree programme leads to compositional professionalism. Graduates shape their artistic development out of a critical understanding of tradition, contemporality and future prospects. Starting from a critical awareness of their cultural influences, they are empowered to open up new spaces and perspectives in their areas of activity and bring them to life. They are also able to act in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner with a critical awareness of their disciplinary perspective. They adopt artistic research perspectives and create new spaces of musical experience and imagination. In an artistic and creative industry landscape that is changing rapidly, they are capable of putting independent ideas and artistic approaches and methods to use in unconventional ways and expanding their expertise. 

Degree title:
Master of Arts ZHdK in Composition and Theory, Major in Composition

Potential areas of employment.

There is no standardized profession of “composer”. However, the programme’s broad scope enables graduates to enter into a wide variety of fields. Alumni are performing at international festivals, working as professors, associate lecturers or artists in residence, curating concert series, founding ensembles, or working for publishing houses, as freelance musicians and composers, or as creative artists active in a wide variety of social contexts (e.g. youth or elderly work).