Program Overview

Programme Description

The European Jazz Master programme is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in jazz music, focusing on artistic, musical, and instrumental excellence. The programme aims to develop students' skills in performing, composing, and arranging, as well as their ability to create and express their own artistic concepts.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the programme, students are expected to have achieved the following knowledge, skills, and competencies:

Subject-specific skills

• Artistic, musical, and instrumental excellence
  • A high professional level of performing, composing, and arranging skills
  • Ability to realise own artistic concepts
• Music business skills related to realising own artistic projects

Knowledge and understanding

• Ability to make well-argued individual, artistic decisions
• Knowledge and understanding of practice-based research methods and how to apply these to own artistic development
• Extended cultural, contextual knowledge, applying it in ways relevant to the area of specialisation
• Knowledge of the music business

Personal competencies

• Project skills: conceiving, planning, realising, and evaluating artistic projects
• Confidence and experience in communication and social skills, including:
  • Initiating and working with others on joint projects or activities
  • Showing skills in leadership, teamwork, negotiation, and organisation
  • Integrating with other individuals in a variety of cultural contexts
• Autonomous learner, able to integrate knowledge and undertake tasks that may be:
  • Extended and complex
  • In new or unfamiliar contexts
  • Based upon incomplete or limited information

Participants

The programme involves participation from several institutions, including:

• Jazz Department, Conservatorium van Amsterdam
• Jazz Institute Berlin, Hochschule f¸r Musik Hans Eisler, Universit‰t der K¸nste
• Jazz Department, Conservatoire national supÈrieur de musique et de danse de Paris
• Institut Jazz, Hochschule f¸r Musik Basel FHNW
• Department of Music, Jazz Performance Programme, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim