Three Institutes, three cultural spaces
Offerings – Management – Lecturers – Events
The Basel Academy of Music consists of three institutes. All the degree programmes, research and continuing education are anchored there.
Our Institutes
What to study at which institute?
Institut Klassik offers a wide range of courses: audio design is just as firmly established here as contemporary music; “Schulmusik” and music and movement courses are just as popular as the master’s degree in solo performance.
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis teaches in the tradition of historical performance practice, with a focus on the Middle Ages/Renaissance and Renaissance/Romantic periods.
Institut Jazz offers a broad stylistic repertoire. The canon of jazz tradition forms the basis for the further development of improvisational expression; composition and production are also given high priority.
At Institut Klassik
Instrument/Voice
The instruments listed here, as well as singing, can be studied in various BA and MA degree programmes and specialisations. For instruments not listed, please contact the administration office.
String instruments violin, viola, cello, double bass
Woodwind instruments flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone
Brass instrumente french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba/euphonium
Percussion percussion
Plucked instruments guitarre, harp
Keyboard instruments piano, organ
Vocal Singing
Music Secondary Education, Music and Movement, Music Pedagogy
Music lessons at primary and secondary schools, music and movement for children from pre-school age onwards, or music education with a view to employment at a music school or conservatoire: a wide range of opportunities.
Audio Design
Good knowledge of electronics and technology, in-depth general musical education and maxi-mum practical relevance with a wide field of experimentation in the Electronic Studio Basel.
Music Theory
A broad spectrum from bachelor's to specialised master's degrees in new music theory, where theory and practice converge with artistic research and science.
Composition
From the basics in the bachelor's programme to creative compositional work in the context of a variety of instrumental, vocal, performative, electronic and multimedia aesthetics and forms of expression.
Administration Institut Klassik
At Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Instrument/Voice
The instruments listed here, as well as singing, can be studied in various BA and MA degree programmes and specialisations. For instruments not listed, please contact the administration office.
String instruments baroque violin and -violoncello, viola da gamba, violone/double bass, fiddle da braccio and da gamba and others
Wind instruments recorder, historical- and renaissance transverse flute, historical oboe, shawm/bombard, historical clarinet, historical bassoon/dulcian, natural horn, natural trumpet, cornetto, sackbut/trombone
Keyboard instruments medieval keyboard instruments (organetto, clavicytherium, clavisim-balum, etc.), harpsichord/clavichord, fortepiano, organ
Plucked instruments lute, historical harp
Vocal medieval/renaissance singing, renaissance/romantic singing
Music Pedagogy
There is demand for teaching in individual subjects (baroque bassoon, baroque oboe, recorder, harpsichord, singing, lute, organ, viola da gamba). These are offered on an ongoing basis.
For instruments that are established in their modern form (violin, violoncello, fortepiano, trom-bone, flute, etc.), it is assumed that pedagogical instruction will be completed as part of a previous course of study in these modern forms at the Institut Klassik.
Early Music Theory
The content of the MA programme – with optional specialisations – ranges from the earliest examples of polyphonic European music to the period around 1850.
Administration Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
At Institut Jazz
Instrument/Voice
The instruments listed here, as well as singing, can be studied in various BA and MA degree programmes and specialisations. For instruments not listed, please contact the administration office.
Rhythm Section/Soloist electric bass, double bass, guitar, piano, percussion/drums/vibraphone, etc.
Melody section/Horns trombone, trumpet, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, saxophone, guitar
Vocal in all registers
Music Pedagogy/Schulmusik
Developing teaching skills and, at the same time, the fundamentals of musical and artistic stage readiness.
Realisation/Producing
Using artistic creativity and modern technologies in composition and improvisation productively in your creative process.
