Bachelor of Music - Artistic and Pedagogical Practice
Earn your Bachelor of Music in a practical artistic education.
Combining artistic skills, theory, practical knowledge and the ability to teach in a modern way: that is the basic idea behind our Bachelor's programme. The stylistic range is intended to be wide, from classical and contemporary music to challenging forms of jazz and popular music - without any blinkers.
The focus is on the main subject. During your studies, however, you will also gain insight into useful areas such as project organisation and topics from the music industry. Our composers meet a world-renowned musical landscape in Darmstadt. Together with your professors, you will track down the latest developments in the scene.
- Focus Instrumental
- Focus Voice
- Focus Composition
Are you interested in our Bachelor's degree programme?
Find out about the offers and opportunities in advance or simply visit us and get a taste of academy life. Get in touch with our teachers and decide which degree programme suits you best.
This is what your studies look like
Focus Voice
Your studies include main subject teaching in singing, song and aria interpretation, general musical education and piano playing, bodywork, scenic teaching as well as speech training and Italian. You attend musicology and music theory courses and gain insight into basic subject didactics. In our music theatre projects you make your debut as a soloist on the academy stage.
Focus Composition
As a composer, you will deepen your knowledge of instrumental and vocal composition and perform your own works in our New Music Workshop. In addition, you will have the opportunity to experiment with electronic media and explore the boundaries of musical genres. Improvisation and the acquisition of the theoretical framework are further components of the Bachelor.
At a glance
Study location: Darmstadt
Duration of study: 8 semesters
Graduation: Bachelor of Music
Language: EN
Start of studies: 1 October for the winter semester / 1 April for the summer semester
Registration
Registration deadline for the entrance examination: 30 April (winter semester) / 30 November (summer semester) // Please send your registration by post to Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt, Akademie für Tonkunst, Berufsakademie, Ludwigshöhstraße 120, 64285 Darmstadt
Entrance examinations for the winter semester 2025: are expected to take place from 10 to 13 June 2025.
Requirements
General higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) or proof of a forthcoming higher education entrance qualification, comparable foreign certificates.
Application procedure and subsequent successful completion of our entrance examination.
This is what your studies look like
Focus Instrumental
In the course of your studies, you will receive intensive main subject lessons in your instrument and deepen your knowledge in the areas of ensemble playing, chamber music and stylistics. The portfolio of musicological and music-theoretical subjects is supplemented by career-related and music-didactic courses. Through the academy's programme of events, we bring you onto the stage with innovative programme concepts.
Focus Voice
Your studies include main subject teaching in singing, song and aria interpretation, general musical education and piano playing, bodywork, scenic teaching as well as speech training and Italian. You attend musicology and music theory courses and gain insight into basic subject didactics. In our music theatre projects, you make your debut as a soloist on the academy stage.
Focus Composition
As a composer, you will deepen your knowledge of instrumental and vocal composition and perform your own works in our New Music Workshop. In addition, you will have the opportunity to experiment with electronic media and explore the boundaries of musical genres. Improvisation and the acquisition of the theoretical framework are further components of the Bachelor.
