Master Programme in organ and related keyboard instruments

This new Master Programme focuses on the organist as a solo and chamber music artist! The programme gives both breadth and depth to organ soloists and is open for those with a bachelor’s degree in music.

This two year Master programme is aimed at those who are interested in continuing their organ studies at an advanced level in order to work as a soloist or chamber musician on the organ and its related keyboard instruments.
Your main focus can be either interpretation or improvisation, advanced-level teaching, careers within the Swedish Church and other denominations (as an advanced degree to work within church music) and/or research within the art of the organ and its related keyboard instruments. This education is offered in English.

Tuition fees
are charged from students from outside the EU/EES area from the autumn semester 2011. The EES area includes all EU member countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

The fee for studies on Master level is 167 500 SEK for one academic year. There is also an application fee of 900 SEK.
If you are a registered student at a Swedish university or University College at the time you submit your application, you won´t have to pay any application fee.
If you have started your studies at a course or programme before 1 July 2011 you may complete that course or programme without having to pay any tuition fees.

Facts about the programme
and about studying in Göteborg

• Individual lessons are given on the organ and related keyboard instruments: harpsichord, clavichord, piano, art-harmonium, as well as group lessons, seminars and masterclasses divided in the following way:
1. Main instrument 60 points
2. Master’s thesis 30 points
3. Related keyboard instruments 18 points
4. “The Organ as a Mirror of its Time” (a seminar series exploring the organ and its culture over four consecutive terms from the Renaissance to the present day) 12 points

• This is an international master’s programme given in English

• Teachers at the Academy of Music and Drama in organ interpretation and improvisation with both artistic and academic research profiles. Johannes Landgren, Karin Nelson, Joel Speerstra, Mikael Wahlin, among others

• Organ Academy. Since 1994 Göteborg has been the home of the bi-annual Göteborg International Organ Academy. In 2011, a major change has come to the Organ Academy. It is now fully integrated within the school year providing students and Academy participants masterclasses, concerts and lectures by international guest artists and researchers.

• Unique environment for students. Göteborg has an organ and keyboard landscape available to its students that is without peer in Sweden and comparable to the best organ landscapes in Europe.
Many of these instruments are integrated into daily teaching and practicing for our students: the world-famous four-manual North German Baroque research organ, the Father Henry Willis organ from 1871, both in Örgryte New Church, and the French Symphonic organ based on the work of Cavaillé-Coll at the Academy of Music and Drama, among others.

• The Academy of Music and Drama has programmes in many artistic and educational fields: music and theatre education, musicians and actors with many specializations at both basic and advanced levels.
We also have research education in four different disciplines.
The Academy prides itself in interdisciplinary cooperation between levels of education and different disciplines.
Students have many opportunities to perform in public both at Artisten, the Academy’s home, as well as in other venues inside and outside the city.

• This is a programme approved to prepare students to apply for doctoral research positions in Scandinavia and students have regular contact with research at GOArt - the Göteborg Organ Art Center - an active and internationally respected research environment within the field of organ and related keyboard instruments.

• The educational programme is given in collaboration between the Academy of Music and Drama and GOArt. Between the two the programme is able to draw on a global international contact network for guest professors and exchange programmes.

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