Mas­ter Con­cert (Clas­si­cal Voice)

In the Mas­ter's de­gree cour­se Con­cert (Clas­si­cal Voice), stu­dents ac­qui­re the pre­re­qui­si­tes to work suc­cess­ful­ly as pro­fes­sio­nal con­cert sin­gers. In ad­di­ti­on to de­ve­lo­ping a pro­found vo­cal tech­ni­que, the fo­cus is on song, ora­to­rio, con­cert and vo­cal pe­dago­gy.

De­epen your own in­te­rests in the elec­tive area

Stu­dents can de­epen their in­te­rests in the field of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic (in coope­ra­ti­on with the IzM) and/or his­to­ri­cal in­ter­pre­ta­ti­on prac­tice (in coope­ra­ti­on with the HIP de­part­ment). The trai­ning in the cen­tral sub­jec­ts of sin­ging, con­cert re­per­toire, song in­ter­pre­ta­ti­on and pe­dago­gy is sup­ple­men­ted by a wide ran­ge of elec­tives to de­epen in­di­vi­du­al in­te­rests and skills, in which ac­com­pany­ing cour­ses in self-ma­nage­ment, mo­ve­ment/health are of­fe­red. Working on in­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal ar­tis­tic pro­jec­ts is a cen­tral com­po­nent of the trai­ning.

Net­wor­king, sup­port and team tea­ching

The de­gree pro­gram is par­ti­cu­lar­ly com­mit­ted to net­wor­king the tea­ching staff of all mo­du­les in the in­te­rests of the stu­dents. Through va­rious team tea­ching for­mats and a clo­se ex­chan­ge bet­ween lec­tu­rers and stu­dents, per­so­nal and in­di­vi­du­al sup­port for stu­dents is to be achie­ved.

Through the de­ve­lop­ment of com­pre­hen­si­ve skills, stu­dents are en­ab­led to ad­apt to the con­stant­ly chan­ging pro­fes­sio­nal field and to suc­cess­ful­ly con­tri­bu­te to the chan­ging cul­tu­ral land­s­cape as so­loists and en­sem­ble sin­gers and to do jus­ti­ce to a wide va­rie­ty of per­for­mance for­mats.

in 2011, the vo­cal de­part­ment of the HfMDK was awar­ded the Hes­si­an Ex­cel­lence Pri­ze for Uni­ver­si­ty Tea­ching.

Plea­se note: We of­fer the Mas­ter of Ope­ra and Voice for stu­dents with the ca­re­er goal of be­co­m­ing a sin­ger-ac­tor.

Ad­mis­si­on to the Mas­ter's de­gree cour­se Con­cert (Clas­si­cal Voice) re­qui­res a de­gree from a uni­ver­si­ty of mu­sic or a com­pa­ra­ble uni­ver­si­ty in Ger­ma­ny or ab­road with a ma­jor in sin­ging or a com­pa­ra­ble de­gree, suf­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of the Ger­man lan­guage (B2 for non-na­ti­ve speakers), a cer­ti­fi­ca­te of ENT and a pas­sed ap­ti­tu­de test.

ENT cer­ti­fi­ca­te

• The ENT cer­ti­fi­ca­te must be is­sued by a spe­cia­list in pho­niatrics and pro­ve the vo­cal phy­sio­lo­gi­cal sui­ta­bi­li­ty for a sin­ging cour­se.
• The ENT cer­ti­fi­ca­te must not be ol­der than six mon­ths at the time of ap­p­li­ca­ti­on.
• If you are un­ab­le to ob­tain the ENT cer­ti­fi­ca­te be­fo­re March 1, plea­se sub­mit it by e-mail by June 15.
• For­eign cer­ti­fi­ca­tes will also be ac­cep­ted, pro­vi­ded you en­c­lo­se a trans­la­ti­on into Ger­man.
• We may also ask you to sub­mit a pho­niatric cer­ti­fi­ca­te at a la­ter date.

The ap­ti­tu­de test for the Mas­ter Con­cert (Clas­si­cal Voice) in­clu­des a di­gi­tal pre-selec­tion in ac­cordance with §11 of the ap­ti­tu­de test re­gu­la­ti­ons.

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

• Name and self-in­tro­duc­tion in a few sen­ten­ces about your mu­si­cal ca­re­er and mo­ti­va­ti­on for the Mas­ter's pro­gram
• Selec­tion of 3 works of dif­fe­rent styles from the pro­gram to be sub­mit­ted for the pre­sence ap­ti­tu­de test (see be­low)

The re­per­toire must be sung in the ori­gi­nal lan­guage and in 2 other lan­guages in ad­di­ti­on to Ger­man. The ora­to­rio ari­as can be per­for­med with sheet mu­sic, songs must be per­for­med by heart and can be pre­sen­ted with a play­back pia­no ac­com­p­ani­ment or wi­t­hout pia­no ac­com­p­ani­ment if no ac­com­pa­nist is avail­ab­le for the au­dio 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 must be able to be strea­med wi­t­hout down­loa­ding the file.

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

We re­com­mend that you are un­der the age of 28 at the start of the de­gree cour­se Mas­ter Con­cert (Clas­si­cal Voice).

The pro­gram can only be car­ri­ed out on the ba­sis of good lin­gu­is­tic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on skills, which is why a good know­ledge of Ger­man is a pre­re­qui­si­te for the vo­cal pro­gram.

If you pass the di­gi­tal pre-selec­tion (see above), you will be in­vi­ted to the first at­ten­dance round, which will be car­ri­ed out un­ch­an­ged on the ba­sis of the full pro­gram.

The ex­ami­na­ti­on ta­kes place in two at­ten­dance rounds of ap­prox. 10 mi­nu­tes each and can the­re­fo­re ex­tend over several days. In each round, the com­mis­si­on selec­ts from the re­per­toire sub­mit­ted. If sui­ta­bi­li­ty ap­pears pos­si­ble in the first round, an in­vi­ta­ti­on to the se­cond round will be ex­ten­ded.

In ad­di­ti­on, it is che­cked on the ba­sis of files (aca­de­mic achie­ve­ments from the pre­vious cour­se(s)) whe­ther the ap­p­li­cant has suf­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of Ita­li­an. If not, the ex­ami­na­ti­on board may im­po­se an ob­li­ga­ti­on to take fur­ther Ita­li­an cour­ses as part of the elec­tive area.

Fur­ther pro­vi­si­ons re­gar­ding the ap­ti­tu­de test and other ad­mis­si­on re­qui­re­ments are go­ver­ned by the ap­ti­tu­de test re­gu­la­ti­ons of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts in their cur­rent ver­si­on.

A chal­len­ging pro­gram of ap­prox. 40 mi­nu­tes du­ra­ti­on must be sub­mit­ted, in­clu­ding

• 4 ari­as from ora­to­ri­os, cham­ber can­ta­tas or other con­cert li­te­ra­tu­re, at least one of which must in­clu­de a re­ci­ta­ti­ve,
• one ope­ra aria (sta­ged)
• 6 songs
• A pre­pa­red pro­se text or a poem in Ger­man of a ma­xi­mum of 5 mi­nu­tes in length, to be per­for­med from me­mo­ry
• A dis­cus­sion will take place in the pre­sence rounds as de­ter­mi­ned by the ex­ami­na­ti­on board.
• Ora­to­ri­os and songs must be cho­sen from at least 3 pe­ri­ods, in­clu­ding
  • at least one aria by J.S. Bach, one by Mo­zart/Haydn and
  • a com­po­si­ti­on af­ter 1970 or a work of the Se­cond Vi­en­nese School (this re­fers to works com­po­sed (af­ter 1908) by the Se­cond Vi­en­nese School and its fol­lo­wers that are com­po­sed free-to­nal­ly or do­de­ca­pho­ni­cal­ly. In this sen­se, works com­po­sed be­fo­re 1970 by Mes­sia­en, Dal­la­pic­co­la and others are also ad­mis­si­ble);
• the ope­ra­tic aria may be cho­sen at will.

The re­per­toire must be sung in the ori­gi­nal lan­guage and in at least 2 other lan­guages in ad­di­ti­on to Ger­man. The ora­to­rio ari­as can be per­for­med with sheet mu­sic, songs and ope­ra ari­as must be per­for­med by heart.

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.