MA Music Performance, Pop
An outstanding course for a career as an ensemble player or soloist, numerous opportunities to specialize in flexible curricula with more than 150 elective courses, personalized study advice and an international community: this is what Music Performance Masterโs students can look forward to at ZHdK.
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Course commencement
Autumn semester
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Application deadline
1 March
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Standard period of study
4 semesters
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Coursework Major / MA
90 / 120 credits
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Teaching language
German / English
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Tuition fee per semester CH / non CH
CHF 720 / CHF 1220
Programme
Major-Minor Programme Model
In choosing a major, students choose their core subject area. They can choose one or two minors to deepen the competencies acquired in their major or to expand these competencies across disciplines. Alternatively, they can also choose open courses to form an Individual Area of Study (ISB).
Possible minors for this major
Individual Area of Study
Instead of a minor, students can also choose an Individual Area of Study (ISB). Courses chosen as part of an ISB are cross-disciplinary and subject to special admissions requirements. The number of places on such courses is limited.
Degree programmes beginning before the autumn semester of 2023 (BA) or before the autumn semester of 2024 (MA)
Before the autumn semester of 2023, there were eight bachelor's degree programmes and before the autumn semester of 2024, there were eleven master's degree programmes with numerous specializations to choose from. Interdisciplinary options were available in Z-modules and open courses from other subject areas.
โ Degree programmes beginning before the autumn semester of 2023 (BA) or before the autumn semester of 2024 (MA)
Mehrspur
Faculty
Learn from the best: Excellent Jazz lecturers design the lessons and accompany you in your development.
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.
Highlights
Extraordinary musicians: Lecturer Nik Bรคrtsch and Resident Lecturer 2023 Eivind Aarset
Dynamic duo: a brief portrait of the new lecturers Arthur Hnatek and Mareike Wiening
Every May and September, the jazz and pop students crown their Bachelor's degree with a final concert. The young musicians present their music on the Mehrspur stage with their own band. The concerts can be experienced on site and via livestream.
Events
Fancy the stage? With the โMehrspurโ, Jazz and Pop has its own music club including a bar on the Toni Campus. This provides a stage for all practice-related study modules as well as a parallel public cultural program.
Students, lecturers and alumni together form the ensembles, which repeatedly perform in various formations and projects. The Klub Mehrspur provides insight into the highlights of the music scene: whether unique experimental music lab or internationally successful bands, whether jazz, electro, indie pop, singer songwriter, future pop or soul: the vocabulary is shaped by the ZHdKโs Jazz & Pop profile.
Click here for the programme. Current pictures and video impressions of the concerts are regularly shown on Instagram.