Swedish National Orchestra Academy - SNOA

Openings on viola, double bass and tuba

We still accept late applications on viola, double bass and tuba for studies beginning on 29 August 2012.
Are you interested to audition? For further information and personal invitation please use the contact form to the right.

Applications autumn 2012

The next application deadline is 15 October 2012 for study start in January 2013. Apply to www.universityadmissions.se as from 15 September.
For further information concerning applications and auditions please click "Application information" to the right

New programme season 2012/13

To the concert program

Concert programme for 2011/12

To the concert program

Students at the programme

Read the names of all our students at the programme 

Orchestra concerts spring 2012

Friday 3 February was the first spring term orchestra concert. Shao-Chia Lü conducted the Don Giovanni overture, The Kingdom of Silence by Swedish composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas and The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Wednesday 29 February conductor Christian Badea visited again and  conducted Prelude to Lohengrin by Wagner, the Sieben frühe Lieder by Berg with soprano Kristina Hansson and Symphony No 4 by Bruckner. 
Friday 30 March the cellist Harro Ruijsenaars will be one of the soloists in Haydn´s Sinfonia Concertante with three SNOA students. 
The conductor Eri Klas will also conduct Symphony No 5 by Shostakovich and Dvorak´s Carneval Overture.
Saturday 28 April Roland Kluttig conducted a new piece by the composition student Jonas Müthing. Former SNOA students Sofia Gustavsson and Alberto Garcia de Leon were soloists in Brotons´ Concerto for percussion and strings. Schubert´s Symphony No 9 was also performed. 
Friday 25 May SNOA starts its 10 years anniversary. The artistic director Kjell Ingebretsen will conduct a programme with opera and ballet music like the Suite from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev and the Symphonic Dances from West side Story by Bernstein.

Tuition fees

are charged from students from outside the EU/EES area
and Switzerland from the autumn semester 2011.

The EES area includes all EU member countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The fee for studies on Master level and for the course Interpretation for foreign students is 167 500 SEK for one academic year.
For studies on Bachelor level (knowledge of the Swedish language is mandatory for studies on Bachelor level) the tuition fee is 200 000 SEK for the music students, 400 000 SEK for the acting, opera- and musical theatre students.
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.

Previous Concert repertoire

Concert program 10/11

Concert program 09/10

Concert program 08/09

About the programme

The Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, and Göteborgs Symfoniker (the National Orchestra of Sweden) have launched a unique twoyear Master's degree programme in orchestra studies. The students accepted to the programme make up an entirely new orchestra, The Swedish National Orchestra Academy (SNOA). The orchestra forms the foundation for this Master's degree programme for top-ranking students from all over Europe. SNOA is organizing the programme in collaboration with Göteborgs Symfoniker, the Göteborg Opera and the department of Opera at our Academy, in order to offer the basic repertoire of the professional orchestral musician.

Degree

Upon completion of this full-time two-year programme the student is awarded a Master’s degree.
A prerequisite for this Master’s degree is that the student holds a general or professional Bachelor´s degree when starting the programme.

Statement of Purpose

The Swedish National Orchestra Academy is dedicated to the artistic, personal and professional development of outstanding instrumentalists. The SNOA programme provides outstanding graduates from music programmes in Sweden and abroad with the opportunity to enhance their musical education with the finest professional orchestral training. Under the artistic and pedagogical direction of Kjell Ingebretsen, the program offers in-depth exposure to traditional and modern repertoire, with the active involvement of leading guest conductors, soloists and coaches.

Practical information

Housing and living costs are to be borne by the individual students.
The programme is taught in English.

Artistic direction and Faculty members

Artistic and pedagogical direction
Professor Kjell Ingebretsen is the artistic and pedagogical director of the SNOA programme. Kjell Ingebretsen has previously held the position of Artistic Director at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and at the Göteborg Opera. He has regularly appeared with the major Scandinavian orchestras, and he has also appeared as guest conductor at many of the opera houses of Europe.
Kjell Ingebretsen has also been Director of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, as well as Director of Opera Studies at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo.

Faculty members
The main coaches for SNOA students are the principal players from Göteborgs Symfoniker. Many of them teach at the Academy of Music and Drama, and other Nordic music conservatories. Members of the Opera orchestra are also engaged in the programme.

Teachers/Instrumental advisors (Göteborgs Symfoniker):
Øyvor Volle, violin, Leader GöteborgsOperan
Per Högberg, viola
Johan Stern, cello
Hans Adler, double bass
Anders Jonhäll, flute
Mårten Larsson, oboe
Urban Claesson, clarinet
Anders Engström, bassoon
Lisa Ford, french horn
Bengt Danielsson, trumpet
Ingemar Roos, trombone
Morten Agerup, tuba
Masayo Matsuo, harp
Roger Carlsson, percussion
Hans Hernqvist, timpani

GSO Orchestra manager: Johan Nordin
GöteborgsOperan Orchestra manager: Mette Berntzen

Conductors

Professor Kjell Ingebretsen conducts one orchestral production and one opera production during each academic year. Guest conductors from Sweden and abroad conduct the remaining productions. Among previous guest conductors, the following have appeared: Christian Zacharias, Olaf Henzold, Christian Badea, Shi-Yeon Sung, Henrik Schaefer, Shao-Cia Lü, Paul Mägi, Roland Kluttig and Tobias Ringborg.

Administration

Course Director
Anders Köllerström

Manager
Lena Lundén

Ensemble coordinator
Maria Andersson

Chamber Music and Stage Presence
Robert Schenck

Department advisors
Øyvor Volle, Violin GöteborgsOperan
Bo Eklund, Double Bass Göteborgs Symfoniker
Urban Claesson, Clarinet Göteborgs Symfoniker
Morten Agerup, Tuba Göteborgs Symfoniker

Programme outline

SNOA offers musicians the unique combination of highly focused orchestral training, music coaching and a wealth of opportunities to perform in concert. The main focus areas are:
- Orchestral concert productions covering all periods from the Baroque, the Classical and Romantic periods through music of the late 20th century, and opera repertoire
- Repertoire training
- Interpretation
- Individual coaching

Performance series

SNOA performs nine subscription concerts annually. The concerts take place primary in the concert hall at the Academy of Music and Drama but there are also some performances in other concert halls. 
In addition to preparing for these productions, the students play a full selection of orchestral repertoire with the orchestra and in sectional rehearsals, as well as receiving individual lessons.

In-depth studies

Knowledge of period styles is part of the curriculum along with music and orchestra history, theory, analysis and ergonomics for musicians, so the students get a well-rounded experience of both repertoire studies and personal development

The SNOA programme also offers opportunities for personal coaching in anticipation of orchestral job auditions. Audition master classes and workshops in performance psychology enable SNOA musicians to hone their skills and techniques so as to successfully negotiate the competitive audition process. Career development and leadership training are also included in the programme.

Subjects on schedule SNOA

Concert production
SNOA does nine public concerts each year. At least one of them is an opera with stage production

Individual instrument
As a SNOA-student you have 16 lessons/year to spend with a teacher of your own choice.

Mock audition
SNOA works in preparing auditioning in a series of six mock-auditions per academic year.

Repertoire class
Each period you have repertoire-classes either in section or tutti.

String section leader support
In this subject we practice on how to put bowings in orchestra-material, how to be a section leader, what´s the role of a concert master etc.

Intonation for Brass & Wood Wind
By playing chorales and orchestra-material this class improves how to work on intonation both in a theoretical and practical way.

Chamber music
The SNOA-students form groups, choose repertoire and teacher on their own. Everything is performed outside the school.

Ergonomics
An important subject that is taught both in class and individually.

Examwork
In seminars and by tutoring SNOA enables you to complete your Master-degree examwork. The work is partly theoretical, partly practical.

Orchestra history/Orchestra knowledge
A series of lectures connected to orchestra playing.

Analyzing concertrepertoire
In connection with each concert production there is a seminar on the concert-repertoire.

The Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, and Göteborgs Symfoniker in cooperation with GöteborgsOperan.

E-mail: snoa@hsm.gu.se
Fax: 46 31 786 4030

Postal Address:
Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg
P O Box 210 SE-405 30 GÖTEBORG Sweden
Tel: 46 31 786 4020 (weekdays 8-11.30 am 12-15 pm Mon-Thurs)