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    About the Department of Music

    • Short description
    • Booklet
    • Facts and figures
    • Students
    • Alumni and Alumnae
    • Brief history

    Short description

    ZHdK is Zurichโ€™s music college. It has ties with music colleges in Switzerland and abroad. At the same time, it forms part of an integrated university of the arts, where it not only contributes to the diversity of disciplines on offer but also acquires a special status afforded by that structure: a music college under a common organizational and physical roof encompassing all of the arts is utterly unique. The set-up gives it a striking and attractive outward appeal and continuously stimulates internal debate and scrutiny the meaning and values that drive teaching and research.
    Booklet

    • Booklet ZHdK music

    Facts and figures

    The Department of Music is the biggest of the five departments at ZHdK. It offers two Bachelorโ€™s and four Masterโ€™s degree programmes, a PreCollege Music preparatory course, all manner of different continuing education courses and a doctorate programme in partnership with the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. The department is home to two research institutes (the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology and the Institute for Music Research), a centre of excellence for Music Physiology and a Music Club. Alongside teaching and research, ZHdK Music is extremely active in production, primarily in the greater Zurich area, and hosts over 600 events each year, mainly from the Toni Campus.

    An average of around 800 students from over 50 countries are enrolled at ZHdK Music. The department also boasts 350 lecturers and a further 170 members of staff (FTE). Students hoping to study at ZHdK must take artistic admissions examinations and must have achieved top marks (i.e. are subject to the numerus clausus) at school.

    The Toni Campus houses many facilities, including: 92 teaching rooms, 67 practice rooms, 49 studios, 40 workshop studios, 9 ballet and dance studios, 5 concert halls, ensemble rooms, rehearsal stages and lecture halls, 4 music and movement rooms and restaurants, 2 sound studios and galleries, a music club with a bar, a computer music and sound technology lab, a cinema, a design museum, a film studio, a device loaning scheme, a media and information centre, an IT shop and service desk, a day care centre, a rooftop terrace, a piano studio and a post office.

    Students

    Music is not only the largest, but also the most international department at the ZHdK. Our students come from all five continents.

    Origin Students Department of Music

    Alumni and Alumnae

    Ursula Hyazintha Andrej, violoncello
    Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi, composition fรผr film, theatre and media
    Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
    Philippe Bach, conducting
    Nik Bรคrtsch, piano
    Ivan Baลกiฤ‡, piano
    Belenus Quartett, alumnae Seraina Pfenninger, Anne Battegay, Esther Fritzsche; Jonas Vischi
    Beatriz Blanco, violoncello
    Wies de Boevรฉ, alumnus, lecturer, double bass
    Alexander Boldachev, harp
    Holly Hyun Choe, conducting
    Melody Chua, transverse flute
    Nuno Coelho, conducting
    Ruben Drole, baritone/bass
    Jakob Eisenbach, composition for film, theatre and media
    Galatea Quartet, Sarah Kilchenmann, Yuka Tsuboi, David Schneebeli, Julien Kilchenmann
    Mirga Graลพinytฤ—-Tyla, conducting
    Stephanie Haensler, composition
    Veit Hertenstein, viola
    Esther Hoppe, violin
    Maximillian Hornung, violoncello
    Ikan Hyu, alumnae Anisa Djojoatmodjo, Gitarre; Hannah Bissegger, Gesang
    Philippe Jordan, conducting
    Mayuko Kamio, violin
    Vojin Kocic, guitar
    Stefanie Kunckler Ymonos, composition
    Patrick Lange, conducting
    Delyana Lazarova, conducting
    Leo McFall, conducting
    Valentine Michaud, saxophone
    Huw Morgan, trumpet
    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
    Nadja Rรคss, vocals
    Nadja Reich, violoncello
    Andreas Reize, organ
    Linus Roth, violin
    Mirjam Schnedl (alias Skal), composition for film, theatre and media
    Milan Siljanov, vocal studies
    Chouchane Siranossian, violin
    Maurice Steger, flute
    Joanna Thalmann, harp
    Yves Theiler, piano
    Trio Colores, percussion instruments, Matthias Kessler, Luca Staffelbach, Fabian Ziegler
    Trio Rafale, Daniel Meller, Flurin Cuonz, Maki Wiederkehr
    Shih-Yu Tang, piano
    Yuka Tsuboi, violin
    Nil Venditti, conducting
    Marena Whitcher, vocals
    Sooyoung Yoon, violin

    Brief history

    1873     Winterthur Music College establishes a music school
    1999     Merger to become Zurich University of Music and Theatre (HMT)
    2007     Merger to become Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
    2014     ZHdK moves to the Toni Campus