The Jazz Composition Master’s degree programme produces musicians with high qualifications and the ability to interpret, compose and arrange a repertoire in its entirety.
This study programme can also be chosen by students who wish to pursue a career as a music teacher and teach at primary art schools, conservatories, music grammar schools and higher education institutions (music academies).
What will a graduate of Jazz Composition be able to do after completing the Master’s degree studies?
- the graduate will be able to develop their creative imagination and fantasy
- the graduate will be able to work with a wide range of instrumental or compositional-arrangement techniques and interpretive approaches;
- will have an in-depth knowledge of the history and literature of the instrument
- will be familiar with the aesthetics of art and the development of artistic movements
- the graduate will be highly skilled in interpretation or composition and arrangement
- will acquire practical experience through work on faculty or university-wide projects, which are solo, chamber and orchestral projects often with international participation, or gain further experience through a study visit abroad
- the graduate will become an independent, focused, confident and disciplined artist who can effectively plan and structure his or her own work and critically think about that work
- the graduate will have healthy physiological and psychological habits for studying and publicly performing music
- and finally, the graduate will also learn how to properly approach scientific work and how to argue at a professional level in theoretical and creative discussions.