Application and admission

You may request to take an introductory class. In this class you get to know the teacher a little better and you get an idea of your level and your possibilities. You can also discuss possible programme elements for the entrance examination.

Request a class via conservatorium.arnhem@artez.nl, stating the degree programme (Music Theatre) and if you have any preference for a specific main subject teacher.

Important: You can only apply for an introductory class if you have been to the open day or an orientation day. Introductory classes are only available between December and March.

In the first round we test your basic musical skills, vocal and/or instrumental. This takes place in a group of between 3 and 5 candidates and lasts approximately an hour. Immediately afterwards, you will be told whether you can go on to the second round. The second round takes place later that day. 

What do you need to prepare?

As soon as your registration has been processed and approved (see Presentation folder), you will be sent a short music fragment to rehearse. 

Furthermore, for the first round you will prepare two pieces of music of your own choice. It may be existing or self-written music, accompanied or a cappella. A pianist/keyboard player will be present during the audition to accompany you. 

If you pass the first round, the second round will follow later on the same day. In the second round, we will test your skills in acting, movement and achieving a performance. You will work in a larger group led by an acting/movement teacher. We will be looking for workability, reproducibility and opportunities for combining the disciplines. It will take about 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

Afterwards you will be told whether you can go on to the third round. 

The third round begins with a music theory test. This test is partly written, partly oral.
Read what is expected of you for this test at the section 'Music Theory entrance requirements' on this webpage.

What do you need to prepare?
In preparation for the third round, you will make a musical theatrical solo of maximum 3 minutes based on one of the photographs by the recently deceased photographer Erwin Olaf.

Show and hear what associations and images your chosen Erwin Olaf photo evokes. See if you can unite music (composition), language, movement and performance into an interdisciplinary act.

What does the photo you chose sound like? What does the photo tell you in image, sound and/or text? Share with us your fascination for the photo and/or its creator Erwin Olaf and let your imagination run wild, also in terms of setting, costume, light and sound. We are curious about your imagination, fantasy and mastery.

Basic technical facilities are available for your performance, such as light, sound amplification (pa and amps), piano and percussion. Furthermore, you may bring anything you like. To avoid losing too much in the conversion of the various solos, don't make it too complicated.
Remember: use the photo in the scene/ performance/ or tell us afterwards which photo you chose.

After the third round, you will be told whether you have passed the audition.

The official result is determined by the Academy of Music's Board of Examiners. They check whether the procedure was conducted properly.

An admission is only valid for the course you applied for. If you wish to be admitted to a course or specialisation at a different location, you must apply for this separately. The admission is only valid for the academic year immediately following the entrance examination. If you wish to start one year later, you can submit a written request to the Board of Examiners to prolong the validity of the results for a period of one year.

If you do not agree with the negative results because of the procedure followed, you can lodge a complaint as a candidate with the Board of Examiners.

You are able to name notes, with and without a sharp (#) or flat (b), written on a staff in the G clef (treble clef) or the F clef (bass clef), including notes with one guide line.
When you are given the name of a note, you are able to notate it on a staff with a G clef or an F clef. You can also point to this note on a piano keyboard.
You can memorise a melody fragment of a few bars and sing it back.
You can sing a simple melody written in music notation in C, G and F major from sheet music without preparation.

This is an example of such a melody:

You know these intervals: (pure) prime, minor and major second, minor and major third, (pure) fourth, (pure) fifth, minor and major sixth, minor and major seventh, (pure) octave.
You can recognise these intervals in notation, that is: notated on a staff in G clef or F clef, with the notes one above the other (harmonic) or one after the other (melodic).
You can notate a given interval above (and below) a given note on a staff.

You can sing back major and minor triads when they are played to you, in the root positions and inversions.
When a triad is played to you, you can identify what kind of triad it is: major or minor. The triad may be played simultaneously or broken (arpeggio), in all positions.
You can identify what kind of triad a notated triad is: major or minor.