Course
CourseThe master's course Classical Music emphasizes the importance of performance and curatorship. You'll learn how to refine your technical and musical skills, as well as identify and seize new opportunities in the world of classical music. Collaboration is a crucial component of the study programme, as you'll gain the skills needed to connect with different groups of people and work together effectively. This course also teaches you how to shape your profession as a musician, giving it lasting significance and credibility.
The Classical Music master's course offers a stimulating learning environment where you can develop and test your ideas. You'll spend a lot of time on stage perfecting your skills, but you'll also be encouraged to challenge yourself by being curious, experimenting, asking questions, and conducting research. This course will help you develop not only your talents and skills but also your vision for the artistic and social aspects of your career, allowing you to take the lead in a rapidly changing field of work.
Curriculum
This master's course consists of an individual route with main subject lessons, a collective programme and a joint module with all the master's students in music. You will write your own personal study plan. This plan will become the interface through which you give shape and direction to your study activities. The two-year Classical Music study programme is flexible, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary. You combine your route with joint learning while focussing on performing and curating in the Performance Lab. Your research is closely connected with the acquisition of practice-based experience.
In the first year of the master's course Classical Music, you focus on deepening your knowledge and developing your skills. During the second year, you build a portfolio based on your route and research theme. This year, you will work with an external coach. You will complete this master's course with a master proof: a final concert in which you incorporate the results of your research creatively and playfully to a jury of professionals from a diverse range of fields.
Artistic research
In order to prepare for an unknown future, it is crucial to keep developing your knowledge and abilities. Therefore, research is at the core of the master’s programme. Integrating research into your own practice allows you to contribute to a whole new language within the field of music and that of research, starting from your own perspective. In the first year, you get thoroughly acquainted with research during Performance Lab. During the second year of the course, you focus on your own research topic.
Conducting research is not about you delivering a thick book of written text: it is about making a translation of what you do in order to be able to reflect on your own path, to explain the choices you make, and to cast a light on the alternatives. The fruits of your research may take on the form of a podcast, video or audio work.
Master's courses in music at ArtEZ
The master's course Classical Music is located in Zwolle, where the accent is on performing and curating. There are also master's courses in music available in Arnhem: Jazz & Pop and Music Theatre. In Arnhem the focus is more on the development of an interdisciplinary practice through performing and making. The music master’s course in Enschede, The Sound of Innovation, lays extra emphasis on innovation. Whichever pathway you choose, we encourage you to make use of the knowledge and classes within all three cities, developing your own unique graduation profile within the ArtEZ Academy of Music.