Clas­si­cal Voice in Mu­si­cal Thea­ter & Con­cert Ba­che­lor

The ba­che­lor's pro­gram­me leads to a first uni­ver­si­ty de­gree. The aim is the ba­sic trai­ning of sin­gers who ac­qui­re the so­lid foun­da­ti­ons of sin­ging tech­ni­que du­ring the ba­che­lor's pro­gram­me and con­so­li­da­te the­se mu­si­cal­ly. Stu­dents ac­qui­re the ba­sic tech­ni­cal tools for the healt­hy hand­ling of their own sin­ging voice, fun­da­men­tal know­ledge and skills for an ap­pro­pria­te in­ter­pre­ta­ti­on of dif­fe­rent styles, ba­sic sce­nic skills, skills in dif­fe­rent are­as of mo­ve­ment, sta­ge pre­sence as well as a re­flec­ted hand­ling of the re­per­toire ap­pro­pria­te to their own voice.

Vo­cal Pe­dago­gy, Mu­sic Theo­ry, Dic­tion

In ad­di­ti­on, stu­dents re­cei­ve know­ledge of the ba­sics of vo­cal pe­dago­gy as well as a broad ba­sic know­ledge of mu­sic theo­ry and mu­si­co­lo­gy, know­ledge of pia­no play­ing, good Ita­li­an lan­guage skills and the ba­sics of Eng­lish and French dic­tion.

In 2011, the HfMD­K's vo­cal de­part­ment was awar­ded the Hes­si­an Ex­cel­lence Pri­ze for uni­ver­si­ty tea­ching. 

The pre­re­qui­si­te for ad­mis­si­on to the ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram in voice is pro­of of the uni­ver­si­ty ent­ran­ce qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on (Ab­itur) ac­cord­ing to § 54 para. 2 of the Hes­si­an Hig­her Edu­ca­ti­on Act of 14.12.2009 in the ver­si­on of 21 De­cem­ber 2010. A mis­sing uni­ver­si­ty ent­ran­ce qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on can be re­pla­ced by an out­stan­ding ar­tis­tic ta­lent (at least 19 out of a pos­si­ble 25 points in the ap­ti­tu­de test) ac­cord­ing to § 54 para. 4 sen­tence 3 HHG.

Suf­fi­ci­ent oral and writ­ten know­ledge of Ger­man (for non-na­ti­ve speakers B1) is re­qui­red for ad­mis­si­on to the ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram­me in sin­ging; a pho­niatric cer­ti­fi­ca­te ENT is also re­qui­red. Ad­mis­si­on to the Ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram­me in Voice re­qui­res the suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of an ap­ti­tu­de test.

ENT / Otor­hi­no­la­ryn­go­lo­gy re­port

• The ENT re­port must be is­sued by a spe­cia­list in pho­niatrics and de­mons­tra­te the vo­cal phy­sio­lo­gi­cal sui­ta­bi­li­ty for a sin­ging cour­se.
• The ENT re­port may not be ol­der than six mon­ths at the time of ap­p­li­ca­ti­on.
• If you are un­ab­le to sub­mit the ENT re­port by 1 April, you must sub­mit it by mail by 15 June.
• For­eign cer­ti­fi­ca­tes are also ac­cep­ted, pro­vi­ded you en­c­lo­se a trans­la­ti­on into Ger­man.
• If the cir­cum­s­tan­ces re­qui­re we might ask you to hand an pho­niatric re­port in la­ter.

A di­gi­tal pre­selec­tion ac­cord­ing to §11 Eig­nungs­prü­fungs­ord­nung is part of the ap­ti­tu­de test. 

For the di­gi­tal pre­selec­tion, the fol­lo­wing must be sub­mit­ted as a vi­deo as part of the on­line ap­p­li­ca­ti­on:

• Name and self-in­tro­duc­tion in a few sen­ten­ces on the mu­si­cal ca­re­er and the mo­ti­va­ti­on for the stu­dy of voice.
• Selec­tion of 2 works from the pro­gram­me to be sub­mit­ted for the pre­sence ap­ti­tu­de test (see be­low).

Ope­ra ari­as and songs must be per­for­med from me­mo­ry and may be pre­sen­ted with a play­back pia­no ac­com­p­ani­ment or wi­t­hout pia­no ac­com­p­ani­ment if no ré­pé­ti­teur is avail­ab­le at the time of the re­cord­ing.

Plea­se upload your vi­de­os to a strea­ming plat­form of your choice (e.g. You­Tube, Vi­meo, Clouds, etc.). The vi­de­os must be ac­ces­si­ble wi­t­hout a pass­word and strea­m­a­ble wi­t­hout down­loa­ding the file.

Plea­se crea­te one vi­deo file per work. Sub­mit the links to the vi­de­os with your on­line ap­p­li­ca­ti­on.

We re­com­mend star­ting un­der the age of 24 on the Ba­che­lor of Vo­cal Per­for­mance.

The stu­dy pro­gram­me can only be car­ri­ed out on the ba­sis of good lin­gu­is­tic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on skills, the­re­fo­re a good know­ledge of Ger­man is a pre­re­qui­si­te for the stu­dy of sin­ging. (A B1 lan­guage cer­ti­fi­ca­te must be pre­sen­ted.)

The ex­ami­na­ti­on ta­kes place in two at­ten­dance rounds and can the­re­fo­re ex­tend over several days. In the first part the main sub­ject sin­ging is ex­ami­ned. Tho­se who pass this part will be ad­mit­ted to the se­cond part of the ex­ami­na­ti­on. This con­sists of the ex­ami­na­ti­ons in lis­ten­ing skills, mu­sic theo­ry/mu­si­cal ge­ne­ral know­ledge, pia­no as well as a fur­ther ex­ami­na­ti­on in the main sub­ject sin­ging.

The ex­ami­na­ti­on can the­re­fo­re ex­tend over several days.

In case of a pre-selec­tion by me­ans of elec­tro­nic me­dia ac­cord­ing to § 11 if pas­sed, the can­di­da­te will be in­vi­ted to the 1st at­ten­dance round, which will be car­ri­ed out un­ch­an­ged in terms of con­tent on the ba­sis of the ful­ly com­pre­hen­si­ve afo­re­men­tio­ned pro­grams. 

A pro­gram of ap­pro­xi­mate­ly 15 to 20 mi­nu­tes, con­sis­ting of 2 to 3 ari­as (ope­ra and/or ora­to­rio) and 3 to 4 songs, from dif­fe­rent pe­ri­ods and of dif­fe­rent cha­rac­ter, in­clu­ding at least one work in Ger­man and one work in ano­t­her lan­guage, must be sub­mit­ted. Ope­ra ari­as and songs have to be per­for­med by heart.

• 1st pre­sence round: per­for­mance of a selec­tion of songs and ari­as (du­ra­ti­on ap­prox. 8 mi­nu­tes), pre­fer­a­b­ly 2 ari­as (also aria an­ti­che) and 4 songs, cor­re­spon­ding to the ap­p­li­can­t's le­vel of trai­ning, from dif­fe­rent pe­ri­ods and of dif­fe­rent cha­rac­ter. If the first round is pas­sed, ad­mis­si­on to the se­cond round will be gran­ted.
• 2nd pre­sence round: per­for­mance of songs and ari­as from the re­per­toire not yet heard in the first part (du­ra­ti­on ap­prox. 10 mi­nu­tes).

In a writ­ten test las­ting about 60 mi­nu­tes, the ap­p­li­cant must de­mons­tra­te the abi­li­ty to re­co­gni­ze ele­men­ta­ry rhyth­mic, me­lo­dic, har­mo­nic, to­nal and for­mal re­la­ti­ons­hips by hea­ring (cf. sam­ple test).

In a writ­ten ex­ami­na­ti­on (du­ra­ti­on ap­prox. 90 mi­nu­tes), the fol­lo­wing tasks are to be com­ple­ted:

• De­ter­mi­ning and forming in­ter­vals and sca­les (in­clu­ding church sca­les)
• De­ter­mi­ning and forming chords and chord pro­gres­si­ons
• Ar­ran­ging a gi­ven me­lo­dy in two, three or four part har­mo­ny
• Com­ment on a gi­ven score ex­cerpt, con­si­de­ring in­stru­men­ta­ti­on, tim­bre, sty­listic/his­to­ri­cal clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on, form, com­po­si­tio­nal tech­ni­que, cha­rac­ter

Per­forming an easy pie­ce (ap­prox. 10 mi­nu­tes)

The Stu­dy and Ex­ami­na­ti­on Re­gu­la­ti­ons (SPO) set out the frame­work con­di­ti­ons and re­gu­la­ti­ons for your stu­dies. They ap­p­ly tog­e­ther with the Ge­ne­ral Re­gu­la­ti­ons (for Ba­che­lor's and Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram­mes) or the SPoL (for tea­cher trai­ning de­gree pro­gram­mes). All ver­si­ons of the SPO for your de­gree pro­gram­me (in­clu­ding ear­lier ver­si­ons for stu­dents of pre­vious aca­de­mic ye­ars) can be found at Ex­ami­na­ti­ons.