Advanced Postgraduate Diploma (APD)

Purpose

The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma is a 2-year programme which qualifies you to work as an instrumentalist/vocalist or composer at the highest artistic level.

The aim of the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma is to give you further qualifications for a professional career by supplementing your Master degree with further specialized studies. The main focus of the programme is to strengthen the student’s individual artistic development through project-based activities.

Admission requirements

The Advanced Postgraduate Diploma caters for professional musicians and composers who either hold a Master degree in contemporary music (pop, jazz, etc.), or can demonstrate equivalent professional qualifications, for instance in the form of a music career at the highest professional level.

Job opportunities

An Advanced Postgraduate Diploma graduate is a creative and unique artist with a distinct professional profile, and is likely to work as a band leader or an artistic project manager. The job opportunities both depend on the market trends in the industry and the political priorities in relation to culture and the arts, and may therefore be extremely variable.

Qualifications

As an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma graduate, you will have acquired a whole range of professional, personal and creative skills at the highest possible level, including:

• The ability to work creatively and innovatively as an artist with a unique personal voice;
• A thorough knowledge of the processes in relation to you own unique artistic development;  
• Musical and technical skills;
• The ability to make and account for personal musical and artistic choices;
• Extensive experience with and insight into project-based work;
• The ability to create and develop music and musical forms of expression;
• The ability to combine existing knowledge and skills in new ways.

Structure and organization of the programme

The Advance Postgraduate Diploma programme is rated at 120 ECTS credit points, the full-time equivalent of two years of 1,620 working hours each. A one-year full-time equivalent includes all the work that is required in connection with the programme, including classes, self-studies, exams and all other study-related activities.

Students on the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma programme must choose one of the following two main fields of specialization:

• Performance (instrumental/vocal)
• Composition

The only subject area in the programme is your chosen field of specialization.

Click here to see the distribution of course units and ECTS credit points in the programme.

Click here to see the course unit descriptions.

The main subject in the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma programme is instrumental/vocal instruction or composition, depending on your chosen field of specialization. You will be responsible for planning your own studies in cooperation with RMC. You will have ample opportunity to work with your own projects, both in Denmark and abroad. The main focus will be on your professional needs and your personal projects.

"The possibilities of what I can pursue are open and self-designed, which provides a great framework for a professional programme. The programme offers invaluable opportunities and resources to perform and study with artists from inland and abroad." Kevin Brow, 2nd year student, Toronto, Canada 2007/2007.

"The programme supported my professional development, and guided me in the artistic direction I really wanted to go. I understood the importance of working towards specific goals, stuff that I would use in a concert." Steinar Nickelsen, Norway, 2006 graduate.

The programme is concluded with a public concert or a similar arrangement.

Other conditions

The primary language of instruction is English.