MA IEMA CoMP

The IEMA Mas­ter at a glance

• One-year Mas­ter's pro­gram with ap­pro­xi­mate­ly 14 work pha­ses (be­gin­ning in the win­ter se­mes­ter) with mem­bers of the En­sem­ble Mo­dern as lec­tu­rers, re­now­ned guest con­duc­tors and com­po­sers, as well as pro­fes­sors of the HfMDK
• De­ve­lop­ment of solo works, cham­ber mu­sic and con­duc­ted re­per­toire, ran­ging from clas­si­cal mo­der­nism to sta­ged pro­duc­tions and world pre­mie­re pro­jec­ts
• Pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the de­ve­lo­ped works in ap­prox. 30 con­certs at home and ab­road
• De­epe­ning of theo­re­ti­cal ap­proa­ches as well as know­ledge in the field of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on

The one-year Mas­ter's pro­gram IEMA CoMP is a spe­cia­li­za­ti­on pro­gram for al­rea­dy trai­ned in­stru­men­ta­lists, con­duc­tors, com­po­sers and sound di­rec­tors, i.e. it ex­pli­citly builds on a first pro­fes­sio­nal­ly qua­li­fy­ing uni­ver­si­ty de­gree in the fields of in­stru­men­tal play­ing, con­duc­ting, com­po­si­ti­on, sound en­gi­neer/sound di­rec­tion (or a com­pa­ra­ble uni­ver­si­ty de­gree). Above all, the re­spec­tive tech­ni­cal abi­li­ty and ar­tis­tic un­der­stan­ding are ne­cessa­ry foun­da­ti­ons for the trai­ning that fol­lows here in the con­text of an en­sem­ble for con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic.

Lear­ning and working in a pro­fes­sio­nal en­vi­ron­ment

The cen­tral fea­ture of this cour­se of stu­dies is the sett­le­ment in the pro­fes­sio­nal field through spe­ci­fic pro­jec­ts in the na­tio­nal and in­ter­na­tio­nal pro­fes­sio­nal con­text. This is achie­ved, among other things, through the pro­xi­mi­ty to one of the worl­d's lea­ding en­sem­bles for New Mu­sic: the HfDMK con­duc­ts this cour­se of stu­dy in clo­se coope­ra­ti­on with the Frank­furt-ba­sed En­sem­ble Mo­dern. This coope­ra­ti­on en­ab­les stu­dents to learn and work in a di­rec­t­ly pro­fes­sio­nal en­vi­ron­ment and to ex­pe­ri­ence spe­ci­fic pro­fes­sio­nal fields - in this case, that of an in­de­pen­dent en­sem­ble ope­ra­ting on the mar­ket, that of the free­lan­ce ar­tist, the need to de­ve­lop a clear pro­fi­le in or­der to po­si­ti­on oneself on the free mar­ket, and working in in­ter­na­tio­nal and in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry con­texts.

The cen­tral goal of the pro­gram is the trai­ning of ar­tists spe­cia­li­zed in the field of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic in the di­sci­pli­nes of in­stru­men­tal play­ing, con­duc­ting, com­po­si­ti­on and sound di­rec­tion in the con­text of an en­sem­ble struc­tu­re, as this re­p­res­ents a cen­tral pos­si­bi­li­ty of a pro­fes­sio­nal field. The di­rect con­nec­tion to the pro­fes­sio­nal field ta­kes place through the rea­li­za­ti­on of pro­jec­ts in al­rea­dy pro­fes­sio­nal con­texts.

Ac­cord­in­gly, the goal of the trai­ning is to ap­proach the ide­al of a com­pre­hen­si­ve­ly and ver­sa­tile­ly qua­li­fied ar­tist, also bey­ond the pro­fes­sio­nal pro­fi­le spe­ci­fi­cal­ly na­med here.

Ad­mis­si­on to the mas­ter's pro­gram re­qui­res a com­ple­ted uni­ver­si­ty de­gree at a uni­ver­si­ty of mu­sic or a com­pa­ra­ble uni­ver­si­ty in Ger­ma­ny or ab­road with an in­stru­men­tal ma­jor (ba­che­lor's de­gree, di­plo­ma, church mu­sic exam or sta­te exam for the mu­sic tea­ching pro­fes­si­on) or a com­pa­ra­ble de­gree.

Suf­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of Eng­lish or Ger­man is re­qui­red for ad­mis­si­on to this mas­ter's pro­gram. If Eng­lish or Ger­man are not na­ti­ve lan­guages, pro­of must be pro­vi­ded by one of the fol­lo­wing lan­guage cer­ti­fi­ca­tes no la­ter than the time of en­roll­ment:

Ger­man lan­guage pro­fi­ci­en­cy:
a) Test­DaF le­vel 3 or
b) Cer­ti­fi­ca­te B1 (CEFR) or
c) DSH ex­ami­na­ti­on, le­vel I or
d) Ger­man lan­guage di­plo­ma of the KMK, 1st le­vel.

Eng­lish lan­guage skills:
a) Cer­ti­fi­ca­te B1
b) IELTS exam 3.5-4.5
c) Cam­bridge exam: PET
d) TO­EIC:

• Lis­ten­ing 275-399
• Rea­ding 275-384
• Speaking 120-159
• Wri­ting 120-149

e) TOEFL iBT: 57
f) UNI­CERT: I

All stu­dents are stron­gly ad­vi­sed to ac­qui­re at least a ba­sic know­ledge of Ger­man, sin­ce in­for­ma­ti­on ma­te­ri­al, e-mails and si­mi­lar texts are pre­do­mi­nant­ly writ­ten in Ger­man.

On­line ap­p­li­ca­ti­on

Re­qui­red do­cu­ments:

• Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on form (on the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on plat­form Aca­de­my Five)
• cur­ri­cu­lum vi­tae in ta­ble form with pho­to (pdf)
• Co­pies of school-lea­ving cer­ti­fi­ca­te, Ba­che­lor's and pos­si­b­ly Mas­ter's de­gree cer­ti­fi­ca­te (in case of for­eign cer­ti­fi­ca­tes, a trans­la­ti­on in Ger­man or Eng­lish must be en­c­lo­sed) (pdf)
• Pro­of of lan­guage skills (pdf)
• a vi­deo state­ment on mo­ti­va­ti­on in Ger­man or Eng­lish, no shorter than 1 mi­nu­te and no lon­ger than 3 mi­nu­tes. It is pro­vi­ded as a link on the plat­form. The fol­lo­wing in­for­ma­ti­on is to be pro­vi­ded in the state­ment:
  • Plea­se sta­te your full name, the in­stru­ment you play or the di­sci­pli­ne for which you are ap­p­ly­ing
  • What is your ba­sic in­te­rest in the field of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic?
  • Why do you spe­ci­fi­cal­ly want to par­ti­ci­pa­te in the IEMA Mas­ter's pro­gram?
• See be­low for ad­di­tio­nal vi­de­os/pdf do­cu­ments.

Only tho­se who pass the first round will be in­vi­ted to the se­cond round in the form of per­so­nal au­di­tions/pre­sen­ta­ti­ons.

De­pen­ding on the cho­sen fo­cus, the fol­lo­wing spe­ci­fic exam con­tent and re­gu­la­ti­ons ap­p­ly:

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.