MA Music Pedagogy | instrument / voice | Open Creation
Thinking of choosing a specialisation or Music Pedagogy as a second master’s degree? Why not both? Students who have already completed a master’s degree in Performance, instrument/voice have the opportunity to combine creative work beyond the limits of conventional artistic disciplines with a teaching qualification for their own instrument as part of an MA in Music Pedagogy.
Key data
- Degree
- Master of Arts FHNW in Musikpädagogik, Studienrichtung instrumental/vokal, Zweites künstlerisches Hauptfach Open Creation
- Next start
- September
- Duration
- 4 semesters
- Place
- Campus Musik-Akademie Basel
- Application fee
- 200 CHF
- Semester fee
- 750 CHF (CH) | 1000 CHF (EU/EFTA) | 1250 CHF (Not-EU/Not-EFTA)
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The programme pursues two objectives:
Set your own artistic and creative priorities
Students are prepared for a career in analogue, digital and media music creation and performance. It equips them with the design, technical and logistical skills to pursue, reflect on, market and professionally document their own artistic projects. One-to-one lectures with our globally connected teaching staff from a wide range of artistic disciplines offer students a broad-based learning experience which is free from aesthetic bias and centred around collaboration. Graduates leave with a ready-made network of contacts, including sonic space basel's national and international project partners. This will give them a valuable head start in their transition from student life to the professional world.
Teaching music
In addition to the artistic subjects the practice-oriented, concentrated pedagogical training enables the students to teach the instrument studied in the first master's programme professionally in individual and group lessons at musical educational institutions or independently at all levels.
Career prospects
The Master's degree in Music Pedagogy instrument/voice (second artistic Major Open Creation) allows students to acquire a dual profile:
The second artistic Major Open Creation prepares students for a career in analogue/digital and media music creation and performance which transcend geographical, stylistic and aesthetic boundaries. It equips them with the skills and knowledge they need to carve out a distinctive place within the analogue and/or digital music industry as highly professional and original creative performers, transnational artists, curators or festival organisers.The pedagogical Master's qualification enables them to teach their instrument in music education institutions as well as independently.
Nearly all music schools in Switzerland now require prospective teaching staff to have a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy (or an equivalent qualification).
Target audience
The Open Creation Major in the FHNW Master of Arts in Specialised Musical Performance is aimed at student creatives who hold at least a Bachelor's degree (or similar qualification) in instrumental or vocal performance, composition, improvisation, audio design (or related electronic music studies), performance art, or another related field. The second artistic major replaces the artistic major instrumental/vocal.
The BA and MA degree programs at the Basel Academy of Music are based on modules.
The legally binding structure provides an initial guide to the content and weighting of the subjects on the degree programme.
The detailed content and modalities of the individual subjects can be found in the module descriptions.
The study regulations come into force together with the study and examination regulations of the Basel Academy of Music FHNW and form the legal framework.
Our internationally renowned teaching staff to teaching staff
In order to enter the FHNW Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy programe with a Open Creation major, applicants must be awarded with a Master in Music Performance with an instrumental/vocal major or equivalent as well as they must have passed the entrance exam and were offered a free place at the Academy (limited places). Applicants who have submitted all the necessary registration documents in time and have passed the first round of the entrance exam will be invited to play a live audition.
For further information on the admission criteria, please see the Studienreglement of the Studienreglement of the Master of Arts FHNW in Music Pedagogy.
In addition to the relevant artistic skills, an interest in teaching and the appropriate aptitude are expected.
We expect students to have very good German language skills.
Students who are not German native speakers must present at least a B1 German language certificate (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).* This certificate must be complete, i.e. all modules (reading, listening, writing, speaking) have been tested separately and passed at a minimum level of B1 overall.
Only certificates that have been certified with the ALTE-Q-Mark seal of approval (e.g. the B1 certificate of the Goethe Institute or the telc certificate) are accepted. The required certificate B1 must be submitted with the confirmation of admission but not later than 31 May.
*For Swiss citizens whose native language is not German, the Matura is considered equivalent to the required language certificate, provided that the subject German was completed with at least a ‘sufficient/genügend’ grade.
Entrance exam
Students are able to graduate the pedagogic education on their instrument/voice and chose the following alternative artistic Major