Career Centre Music

Network, qualification, information and advice

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. The focus is on the pooling and contextualization of useful information, on job placement and network services, as well as on a course to acquire complementary skills in professional practice.

Artist recruitment and job placement / the ZHdK concert agency

  • Current job descriptions are updated and posted daily. To receive regular up-to-date job postings such as internships, orchestra places etc., ZHdK students and other interested parties should sign up to the CCM Facebook page.

  • The association “tonmomente – concert agency for young musicians” organizes concerts and provides musicians for the broadest range of occasions, from private parties and customer events to graduation ceremonies and international receptions.
    The aim of the association is to safeguard the interests and well-being of young musicians and to promote them by offering a professionally-run concert management service. It strives for fair wages and conditions.

Courses for students

  • Overview:
     

    Career skills

    • Music law 1 & 2 (contracts, liability, copyright law)
    • Associations and organisations (overview of the association landscape and association law in Switzerland. Membership,services, pension scheme etc.)
    • Application dossier (previously: Professional Studies 1)
    • Studies relating to the vocation field of church music (assignments and tasks, application, contract and job description, job evaluation and control of working time, working with the parish office, authorities and church employees in other fields, project management).
    • Cultural policy 1 & 2
       

    Producing & Presentation

    • New concert formats in the field of classical music
    • Basic classical audio production
    • Intermediate classical audio production
    • Basic classical music video production
    • Intermediate classical music video production
    • Creating your own website
    • Creative pop production
    • Intermediate production (Pop)
    • In the studio (Pop)
       

    Business & Administration

    • Social welfare for musicians (in cooperation with SONART)
    • Accounting and self-employment (in cooperation with SONART)
    • Financing music projects (in cooperation with SMV)
    • Analysis and coaching for pop and jazz Master’s projects from a professional management perspective
    • Music business advanced (pop and jazz)

    Career Center Music courses are open to all ZHdk students and employees, with a few exceptions. Enrolment is via clickEnroll.

Master’s courses & competitions

  • ZHdK music students regularly have the opportunity to work with established luminaries from the music scene. These events are open to the general public as a rule. Active participation is reserved for ZHdK students.

  • Every year, the Department of Music at Zurich University of the Arts organizes four competitions exclusively for its students. The prize money amounts to as much as CHF 33,000.

  • In the field of classical performance, orchestra places worldwide are often filled on the basis of rehearsals. To prepare our students for this, ZHdK offers semester-based psycho-physiological training in playing and singing, audition boot camp and courses on learning strategies.

    Every year, the Department of Music at the Zurich University of the Arts organizes a large-scale rehearsal for students playing orchestra instruments. Leading voices from Swiss professional orchestras give us feedback, an opportunity to practice in this format and also to work on profiling and improved networking within the Swiss orchestral landscape.

Information and advice


Library

An online service platform for career-related information: documentation, links and check-lists on topics such as being in an association, professional organizations, applications, accounting, tax and insurance issues, project financing, funding opportunities, music law and business start-up.

Advice

Specific questions can be discussed in one-to-one consultations. Contact: Rudolf Hermann

Ensemble support/coaching

The Career Center Music supports and supervises existing ensembles in developing portfolios and strategic planning.

Contact

Rudolf Hermann, Career Center Music
Phone: +41 43 446 52 19
Email

Rudolf Hermann, Career Centre Music

    Cultural entrepreneurship

    Z-Kubator

    The Z-Kubator supports ZHdK members who want to contribute to the cultural and creative industry with independent projects, be it in the form of non-commercial cultural and design projects or with start-ups.
    As an experimental learning laboratory, the Z-Kubator gives users the space to develop and test new business and operating models.

      ZHdK music YouTube channel

      In a highly competitive music market and in these times of social media, the presentation and communication of individual productivity is of paramount importance. Promoting and supporting the acquisition of skills in this regard is of great importance for the Career Center Music. We do this both through the courses we provide and a range of infrastructural and communicative services. Our phenomenal technical facilities and state-of-the-art technology allow us to record and present a selection of the huge output of high-quality student productions. The ZHdK music YouTube channel serves as a showcase for current live performances and as an archive for past broadcasts.
      → www.youtube.com/zhdkmusic