In order to be accepted for this pathway, you must have completed a professional music course at bachelor’s level. There are various courses within the Performance pathway:

• Performance
Within this course, you can specialise in: Ensemble, Orchestra, Solo or Accompaniment (for piano and harpsichord).
• Jazz & Pop programme
• Choral Conducting
• Carillon
• Music & Arts Education
• Composition
• Church Music
• Entrepreneurship
• Classical singing
• Community music & arts

More about the Performance pathway

Within the Music Design pathway, you can specialise in Composition, Music Production, Music Technology and Sound Design. You can follow this pathway if you have successfully completed a Bachelor’s course in composition, music production, music technology, sound design, or a similar course.

More about the Music Design pathway

As a student, you are expected to have an independent attitude and working method, which will continually be tested on a clear and well-founded vision of the future. You will describe this vision of the future – your own focus on and vision of your future professional practice – in a study plan.

More about the study programme

If you wish to put yourself forward as a candidate for the Master of Music, you must have completed a professional music course at Bachelor’s level. To apply for admission, you should fill in an application form and submit it along with a letter of motivation, in which you explain your study goals, and your CV. A broad-based admission committee will assess whether you can be admitted on the basis of an audition, interview and the documents submitted. You must also be able to show that you have completed a professional music course in the Netherlands or a similar course abroad before 1 September of the new study year.

• personal study plan
• personal coaching by tutor, supervisors and teachers
• practice-oriented research
• practice-oriented internship
• contacts with the professional field: venues, music organisations, etc.
• training in business and organisational skills
• masterclasses and clinics

And within the Pathway Performance, also:
• Stage presentation training
• Mind, Music & Body
• Internship focussing on musical practice

And within the Pathway Music Design, also:
• Interdisciplinary projects in cooperation with animation, modern dance, theatre, film, games, fine arts, et cetera.
• Artist in residence projects
• Collaboration with the Music Design research group: presentations and conferences.

More about admission to the Master of Music

The Master of Music is given at Utrechts Conservatorium (for Carillon at the Dutch Carillon School in Amersfoort) and at the Faculty of Arts, Media & Technology in Hilversum.

The Performance pathway is offered by the Utrechts Conservatorium (Faculty of Music). The Music Design pathway is offered by the Faculty of Art, Media & Technology.

The Composition specialisation is offered by both faculties: Composition for the Stage is taught at the Utrechts Conservatorium and Composition for the Media and Composition Electronic Music at the Faculty of Art, Media & Technology.

The language of instruction is Dutch or English. Some subjects are only given in English. Students from abroad are required to have a good command of English. Proof of a pass in the IETLTS or TOEFL test is part of the admission procedure (for more information, see Application, the Utrechts Conservatorium). Other languages are possible for the (individual) main subject, depending on the teacher of the main subject.

You can get more information about the Master of Music during the open day. For further information about the Master of Music at Utrechts Conservatorium, you can contact the tutor of this course, Marin Rutgers: marin.rutgers@muziek.hku.nl.

For more informatio about the programme at the Faculty of Art, Media & Technology, you can contact the head of the Master of Music, Pathway Music Design: Mr. Jeroen van Iterson: jeroen.van iterson@kmt.hku.nl