Overview

The Master of Music at the Prince Claus Conservatoire is an innovative master’s programme for students who are talented, passionate and socially engaged. Several study routes are available to you: Classical Music, New York Jazz, New Audiences & Innovative Practice (NAIP).

Your professional practice as a musician is central to our programme. By integrating performance, entrepreneurship and research, the programme prepares you for the profession at the highest level and to respond to the challenges and opportunities in society at large.

Why choose this programme?

We are a professional learning community challenging talented musicians to develop into competent and socially involved professionals. As creative makers, they are able to develop innovative concepts and transform them into artistic, meaningful musical products and services. This is how our learning community connects with, and enriches people and society. The Master of Music educates engaged, first class musicians with different cultural and musical backgrounds. Our aim is to help you develop and share your talent, and to move the world together!

About this programme

Your professional practice as an artist is our main focus, and that can be realised through our integrated learning system. An expert team of teachers/coaches will provide supervision and assessment throughout your study. Under our guidance you manage your personal study route, as worked out in your study plan.

The curriculum is built around the three main courses: 

• Performance
• Practice-based Research
• Entrepreneurship

These three courses together form your principle study, which is called Professional Practice. The development of your own professional practice will be the basis of your study within these courses. For Classical Music, New York Jazz and New Audiences & Innovative Practice there are specific subjects.

In addition, we offer Open Modules, which allow you to shape or broaden your principle study. These may be classes within your study route, classes from other study routes, projects of your own design, or extramural activities. Furthermore, there is a mentoring programme to guide you in the practical and philosophical aspects of reflecting on the progress and direction of your principle study.

General information Master of Music

A student's superior musical and performative competence is rooted on knowledge of technical and interpretative skills in music. These serve as a basis for their capacity to perform as an ensemble musician, soloist, artistic collaborator, creator or leader. Each student determines his or her own specific area of professional development, as a singer or an instrumentalist, as a composer, improviser, arranger, leader, or conductor.

The Master of Music programme promotes artistic performance within a spectrum of forms, contexts and media. Students develop a strong sense of artistic identity which reflects their awareness of past and current developments in music, other arts disciplines and society.

Admission requirements

The Master of Music programme is the sequel to the Bachelor of Music, both nationally and internationally. Target groups for admission are recently graduated Dutch and international Bachelor of Music students. The Master of Music programme may also be interesting for candidates who have been working in the professional field for several years.

All candidates must have convincing musical and artistic capacities, a study attitude that is inquisitive and open-minded, investigative and innovative, independent and reflective, and professional and intellectual capacities on the level of higher education. Please check the general info application and entry requirements of Hanze UAS.

In addition, candidates want to make an active contribution to the further development of professional practice and want to delve into the meaning of music practice for society.

Admission process

To apply for the Master of Music, the following is required:

1. Apply via Studielink
   Apply to do audition for Master of Music before the 1st of March. Go to www.studielink.nl and choose M Music. After this you will receive an e-mail from Hanze Apply/Osiris to finish your application for the audition. Hanze apply/Osiris is where you select your study course and instrument, and where you upload documents and YouTube-links (if required).
    
2. Curriculum vitae
   Please upload a CV (max. 2 pages in PDF format) with everything you usually write down in such a document. Check out the accordion below for more information and content tips.
    
3. Study plan
   Describe your ideal career as a musician and the way you want to approach it during your study. The study plan (max 2 pages in PDF format) is the thread that ties your plans to the requirements of our Master programme and to your future career. It makes your personal, flexible study path explicit and serves as a basis for a discussion of your learning objectives. Check out the accordion below for more information and content tips.
    
4. Pre-selection
   For these instrument we have a pre-selection prior to the auditions:
   - Classical Music: violin, vocals and piano
   - New York Jazz: all instruments 
   
   For this pre-selection we ask that you upload 3 YouTube videos of you playing different pieces in different styles. This may be the same pieces you want to play at the audition. Next to these videos of you playing, you need to upload a video of you introducing yourself (max. 2 minutes). Note that all videos have to be recorded recently and we need you to be recognizable. Two weeks prior to the date of the auditions you will receive an e-mail informing you whether you have passed the pre-selection and will be invited for your audition.
    

5. English requirements
   As part of your enrollment, you have to upload an English certificate with a minimum IELTS score of 6.0 with no subscores below 6.0 (or an equivalent at comparable language tests like TOEFL, Cambridge ESOL etc). Please check the general info application and entry requirements of Hanze UAS.