MA Music Performance, Voice
An outstanding course for a career as an ensemble member 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 Master’s students can look forward to at ZHdK.
Course commencement
Autumn ans spring semester
Application deadline
1 March / 1 September
Standard period of study
4 semesters
Coursework Major / MA
90 / 120 credits
Main teaching language
German / English
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.
Lecturers
Further lecturers
Pronunciation and diction foreign languages
Matthias Walter
Frauke Kröger (ad interim)
Anthony Di Giantomasso
Elena Postumi
Lied interpretation
Hans Adolfsen
Christoph Berner
Vocal body training
Judith Buchmann
Martine Girardin
Serafin Heusser
Horst Hildebrandt
Oliver Margulies
Sarah Satz
Lina Schwob
Ensembles and choir
Samuel Zünd
Annette Uhlen
Markus Utz
Ernst Buscagne
Historical performance practice
Benoît Hartoin
Music Theatre
Philipp M. Krenn
Sascha Ö. Soydan
Julián Ignacio Garcés
Correpetition
Hans Adolfsen
Jens Fuhr
Rahel Sohn
Marcelo Sebastián Tortosa
Vocal Ensembles
Vocal students enjoy basic training in ensemble singing. By participating in vocal ensemble projects, they gain an insight into the work of a professional singer and can take on solo parts in projects of the ZHdK choirs.
Opera
At regular intervals, selected ZHdK voice students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their talent on stage in an opera production. The productions are created in close collaboration between the various training programmes in orchestral conducting, vocal and instrumental studies and with the involvement of students from the Department of Performing Arts and Film.
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.