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The two-year master’s course has a study load of 120 credits (ECTS) and is divided into four semesters.
Students acquire competencies in ‘Leading and Guiding’, ‘Performance and Communication’, ‘Entrepreneurship and Project Management’ and ‘Action Research’.
Specialisation is possible in three different areas: ‘Ensembles', ‘Collaborative Practice’ and ‘Cross-Sector Settings’. Students will work at their home institutions as well as abroad.
Specialisation areas
Competencies and learning outcomes
Specialisation is possible in three different areas: ‘Ensembles', ‘Collaborative Practice’ and ‘Cross-Sector Settings’. Students will work at their home institutions as well as abroad.
Specialisation areas
Competencies and learning outcomes
Ensembles
This subject area provides different ensembles of musicians in any style, be it classical, jazz, pop/rock, folk or avant-garde, with the skills to carry out their work in new environments (audiences, contexts). Improvisation and technology as an artistic means can play a distinct role.
Collaborative practice
The area of ‘collaborative practice’ focuses on the growing need for musicians that have expertise in giving shape to cross-genre, cross-arts, cross-cultural and trans-cultural projects.
Cross-sector settings
This specialization offers training for musicians to be active in new societal contexts (like business settings, health care and diverse educational projects). Much attention is given to the specific skills needed to adapt to those new contexts.
All subject areas are underpinned by improvisation, technology and leadership in different contexts. The master also includes an ongoing mentoring process. back
Within the three specialization areas the master leads to learning outcomes for and competencies in four broad domains:
1. Leading and Guiding
The graduate knows how to lead and guide; covering leadership and mentoring in different highly related appearances: as an autonomous leader of his/her own projects, as an artistic leader, as a mentor seeking for the needs of participants involved in the work that has to be carried out.
The graduate knows how to lead and guide; covering leadership and mentoring in different highly related appearances: as an autonomous leader of his/her own projects, as an artistic leader, as a mentor seeking for the needs of participants involved in the work that has to be carried out.
2. Performance and Communication
The graduate is able to continuously develop his/her artistic skills, combined with the further development of communication skills, necessary to ensure connections with new audiences and covering social components.
The graduate is able to continuously develop his/her artistic skills, combined with the further development of communication skills, necessary to ensure connections with new audiences and covering social components.
3. Project management and Entrepreneurship
The graduate knows how to develop new artistic ideas and innovations and to create new audiences, also from the existing traditions. The musician transforms into a true project manager and knows how to lead and guide others involved through the process of the project. Working towards giving value and recognition to the projects is part of the entrepreneurship.
The graduate knows how to develop new artistic ideas and innovations and to create new audiences, also from the existing traditions. The musician transforms into a true project manager and knows how to lead and guide others involved through the process of the project. Working towards giving value and recognition to the projects is part of the entrepreneurship.
4. Action research
The graduate knows how to use research tools, can ask the right questions and can work collaboratively in action research, encompassing engagement in evaluative processes and conceptualising experiences, being an important part of the musicians’ development process. back
Content per period
The graduate knows how to use research tools, can ask the right questions and can work collaboratively in action research, encompassing engagement in evaluative processes and conceptualising experiences, being an important part of the musicians’ development process. back
Content per period
First Semester (30 EC)
The master starts with an intensive week for all participating students at one of the partner institutions. The aim of this week is to familiarise students in-depth with the contents of the master and with each other and the teachers. This is followed by the first semester focusing on Foundation and Identification of a Personal Pathway and continues in the home institution. Teachers’ mobility within the ERASMUS programme is used: teachers of the partner institutions travel between the participating institutions. This first semester contains four compulsory modules: Action Research (7 EC); Project management and Entrepreneurship (7 EC); Performance and Communication (7 EC) and Leading and Guiding (7 EC). The chosen personal pathway of the student leads to his or her informed choice for one of the partner institutions, where he/she will have tuition during the second period (exchange via the ERASMUS programme). The choice is based on the offerings of the partner institutions connected to the specialisations that have been chosen.
Second Semester (30 EC)
This semester can be defined as a process oriented phase in the most favourable context and takes place at one of the partner institutions abroad. During this phase a range of skill based modules, closely developed in relation to the earlier mentioned subject areas, need to be chosen and taken. The programme should be ‘tailor made’ suiting individual students’ needs within his/her personal pathway. Examples of skills modules are: Creating and Communicating Music, Professional Practice, Composition, Improvisation, Technology in the Arts, Skills of Leadership Training, Cross Cultural Management, International Entertainment and Media Law, Cultural Policy, Music Sociology.
Third and Fourth Semester (60 EC)
The third and fourth semester takes place mainly in the home institution and focuses on the professional integration of the student. The student carries out a project (30EC), working in partnerships, collaborating through dialogue, reflecting, and contextualising experiences. This phase should lead to both a process and a product, informed by the context of the places where the project takes place, creating, implementing and sustaining educational, artistic and developmental collaborations within a variety of formal and non-formal settings. Besides this, the student will spend 24 EC on additional optional modules that relate to the personal pathway. During the whole process of research and development, the student needs to make his/her work and choices transparent to peers and external stakeholders.
Mentoring and personal pathway guidance
Throughout the master, mentoring and personal pathway guidance (11 EC) will be offered. The master provides tailor made programmes to all students. Questions on decision making are crucial. The student continuously needs to self-reflect and self-assess. Mentoring and guidance, not only in the home institution, but also in the partner institutions, will carry on throughout the year. back
Admission criteria and admission requirements
Throughout the master, mentoring and personal pathway guidance (11 EC) will be offered. The master provides tailor made programmes to all students. Questions on decision making are crucial. The student continuously needs to self-reflect and self-assess. Mentoring and guidance, not only in the home institution, but also in the partner institutions, will carry on throughout the year. back
Admission criteria and admission requirements
The admission procedure that will be used from the start of the programme in ’09-’10 will be as follows:
In the first admission round the applicant will be asked to send in a combined study plan, motivation letter and CV, and a presentation on DVD. The home institution decides which applicants continue to the second round, and each applicant will be informed about the decision as soon as possible.
The second round will take place at the home institution. The second admission round consists of a workshop (including a performance on the candidate’s instrument) and an interview.
When applying, the students will be required to make a first and second choice for the exchange institution of the second semester. However, no guarantee for an exchange institution can be given. After the second selection round of students, it will be decided which student will be enrolled in which institution during the second semester.
Since the Joint Master is part of the educational systems of five different institutions, the admission procedures might differ slightly per institution.
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