News and events

Apply to the Ljunggren competition for young musicians 2012

You can now apply to this competition open to both Swedish and non Swedish citizens studying at a Swedish University School of Music or Opera. First prize is 100 000 SEK, the second prize 60 000 SEK, and the third prize 40 000 SEK. Last day of application is 21 May.
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Contemporary Performative Arts - a new Master programmme

This programme is aimed at the student who is profoundly interested in seeking to perceive and reach beyond the confines of ”the box”.
You are a professionally active artist with a wealth of experience from the field extending through physical performance, dance for screen and/or sound art, with emphasis on the interpretative aspects.
The programme is given in English.
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What is a musical instrument?

The sounds produced by a fiddle are not always musical, but the fiddle is still nevertheless regarded as a musical instrument. However, if one uses sticks or car engines to create music – do they become musical instruments? This is the point of departure for Per Anders Nilsson’s research. It has led him to the creation of a number of digital instruments for various purposes and also into questions concerning the interaction between his roles as designer and musician – always on the basis of his own experiences for more than 40 years as an improvisatory musician.
On 25 November 2011 he publicly defended his doctoral thesis A Field of Possibilities: designing and playing digital musical instruments in the subject musical performance at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg.
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Violinist won the Ljunggren competition for young musicians 2011

Violinist Andrej Power won the first prize and 100 000 SEK on Sunday 9 October when the finals of the competition took place. He studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Flutist Francisco Lopez Martín, student at the Swedish National Orchestra Academy (SNOA) in Gothenburg, won the second prize and 60 000 SEK. Hans Kristian Goldstein, cellist and student in Stockholm, won the third prize and
40 000 SEK.

Orchestra concert season 2011/12

Conductors, soloists, programmes, dates...
Read all about the season here

Many distinguished guests spring 2011

Professor Milan Vitek visited the violin students in January. I February famous pianist Stephen Hough gave master classes. On 2 February the orchestra concert season began with conductor Christian Badea, who recently was acclaimed for Don Carlos at the Göteborgs Operan and soloist Hrachya Avanesyan, rising violin star. They performed works by Glinka, Musorgskij and Tjajkovskij with the SNOA orchestra. On 2 March conductor Roland Kluttig and the orchestra played the Beethoven No. 5 and Sinfonia da Requiem by Britten. Olaf Henzold has also conducted the orchestra this spring. Shi-Yeon Sung was our last conducting guest for the season. Violinist Levon Chilingirian instructed the students in a chamber music project in May.

Christian Zacharias appointed professor in Göteborg

The German pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias has been appointed professor in orchestra playing at the University of Gothenburg and the Academy of Music and Drama.
He will take part in the orchestra playing Master programme Swedish National Orchestra Academy both as a conductor and as a seminar leader and lecturer.

Mr Zacharias is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne since September 2000, Principal Guest Conductor of the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra since the season 2002/2003, from 2009/2010 on “Artistic Partner“ of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Christian Zacharias is one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation and one of the most remarkable musical explorers of our time.
Christian Zacharias also appears in chamber music recitals with partners such as the Alban Berg Quartet, the Leipziger String Quartet, Heinrich Schiff and Frank Peter Zimmermann. The Academy of Music and Drama is pleased and proud to get the possibility of collaborating with this distinguished artist for the coming years.

Tuition fees will be introduced 2011

Tuition fees will be charged from students from outside the EU/EES area from the autumn semester 2011 in Sweden.
The EES area includes all EU member countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
There will be charges on all educational programmes at the Academy of Music and Drama.
The fee for studies on Master level and for the course Interpretation for foreign students will be 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 will be 200 000 SEK for the music students and 400 000 SEK for the acting, opera- and musical theatre students.
There will also be 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.