Voice
Welcome to the Voice section of Interpretation & Performance! Voice training at ZHdK is offered in the Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy, Master of Arts in Music Performance and Master of Arts in Specialized Music Performance programmes.
Voice as a major subject can also be taken in Jazz, Pop, School Music, Creative Music Practices or through the Schweizer Opernstudio (HKB).
At ZHdK – one of the largest integrated art colleges in Europe – students are guided by excellent lecturers and benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure at Toni Campus. The flexible and accessible range of courses, the renowned faculty and the broad networking with the professional world offer optimal conditions for a sound education and a successful start to a professional career.
Degree programmes
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.