Jazz

About this program

The diverse range of jazz courses at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) prepares graduates comprehensively for an artistic career and provides them with the necessary practical skills to be successful in the professional music scene. The aim of all courses is to prepare students both comprehensively and individually for the demands of their future careers, including stylistic confidence in the various genres, improvisational versatility and soloistic expressiveness, openness to and inspiration from music from other cultures, mastery of music production technology and software and live equipment, self-management, the ability to pass on musical know-how pedagogically and nationwide and international networking with other artists. At the end of the training process, artists with an artistic vision and excellent technical expertise are able to carry their musical message into society with stylistic confidence and professionalism. The lecturers in the jazz degree programs are established soloists in the international jazz scene and renowned teachers and professors who help students to develop an independent musical personality and acquire the necessary technical skills to do so. The jazz degree programs at the HfMT Hamburg cooperate closely with the NDR Big Band in Hamburg and offer students the opportunity to work musically and/or compositionally with the big band. Some soloists from the NDR Big Band are professors and teachers on the team of lecturers for the jazz courses and, in addition to providing support on the instrument, can also act as role models and mentors for the students through their practical experience. In addition, jazz students at the HfMT receive a sound classical instrumental education in the Jazz Bachelor program through separate classical main subject lessons, which fundamentally strengthens their technical expressiveness and versatility on the instrument. In order to become familiar with the complex processes involved in music production, each student goes through the entire process of creating musical works, from composing and arranging to recording in the studio. Since 2014, the Dr. Langner Jazzmaster has been the exclusive and extensively equipped study programme of the HfMT Hamburg, which offers talented and mature artists the opportunity to turn their artistic vision into reality through a highly customizable study programme concept.

Required documents

General requirements for Master programs in Germany. Program-specific requirements are shown once you start a journey for this program.

• Certified copy of Bachelor's degree certificate
• Certified translation of Bachelor's degree certificate
• Certified transcript of records (all semesters)
• Valid passport (photo page copy)
• Tabular curriculum vitae (CV)

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