Master's Programme in Classical Music Performance

Do you want to take your artistic skills to new heights? This Master's programme develops your musical identity while allowing you to delve deeper into what interests you the most. This master’s programme focuses on your personal artistry as a musician, allowing you to follow your vocational and professional ambitions and offering great opportunities for professional and practical exposure in cooperation with the Kilden Performing Arts Centre, namely the Kilden Vocal Ensemble and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Professional internships will develop and nurture your musical growth and open the possibility for feedback and learning from a variety of sources. Our teachers at the Department of Classical Music and Music Education value your creativity and your desire to learn, and will provide you with a learning environment that enables you to fully polish and cultivate your musical strengths. What will you learn? You will develop technical skills as a musician and instrumentalist at a high professional level. You will acquire further understanding about the relations between music theory, music history and music performance. You develop an academic and professional basis which is crucial to reflection, creativity and innovation in the field of music. You will get broad knowledge on how to carry out advanced tasks and projects in the field of music. The program provides a comprehensive introduction to the musicological disciplines and how to facilitate research on your own music.

Programme-specific requirements recorded in SIT Connect.

• The general admission requirement is a bachelor's degree or equivalent education of at least three years (180 credits). The admission criteria must include specialisation unit of at least 80 credits in performing music or equivalent. At least 20 credits in the specialization unit must be level 2. Ranking of applicants takes place on the basis of an entrance exam with the following parts: Audition with self-selected program. In the audition, a score from 10 to 20 is given for passing the test. Applicants who get less than 10 points have not passed the audition. The audition counts for 50% of the total score. Interview. At the interview, a score is given from 10 to 20. The interview counts for 50% of the total score. The audition must be passed in order to be admitted to an interview. See information about auditions. Recommended previous knowledge MUK107 Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics and Analysis at UiA, or similar.

The official programme record lists English. It does not publish a programme-specific minimum language-test score, so no score is invented here.

Preparation checklist; final document rules and certified translations are confirmed during application review.

This programme is recorded as accredited in the central catalogue.