Music Performance (MP)

Purpose

The Master in Music Performance is a 2-year programme with primary focus on artistic development through project-based work, and which qualifies you to become a performing and creative musician, partly as soloist and partly as ensemble or session player.

The purpose of the Master programme is to give you further professional qualifications by extending the compentencies of your Bachelor degree. The advanced studies of the Master programme are organized so as to allow the students to focus on and become specialized in subjects areas of their own choice. The education is to a large extent based on project activities.

Job opportunities

The Master in Music Performance is intended for applicants aiming at a full-time career as performing musicians, and in general it is difficult to say something specific about the job opportunities. Most of the graduates in Music Performance typically find employment as freelance musicians in bands and in television, radio, theatre, films etc.

Qualifications

Upon completing the programme, you will have acquired a whole range of professional, personal and creative skills on an advanced level, including:

• Musical and technical qualifications at an advanced level;
• The ability to make and account for personal as well as collective musical and artistic choices;
• Extensive experience with and insight into project-based work;
• Extensive experience with central processes and work methods in relation to developing artistic projects;
• Knowledge of general affairs in relation to culture and the arts;
• Insight into the music industry;
• The ability to create, maintain, develop as well as to work within open and changing networks;
• The ability to collaborate with others as well as to work independently;
• The ability to structure your own learning processes;
• Communicative skills;
• The ability to be unprejudiced and culturally open-minded;
• The ability to create and develop music and musical forms of expression;
• The ability to combine existing knowledge and skills in new ways;
• The ability to develop and promote ensemble playing in multi-cultural settings;
• The ability to strike a balance between mediating tradition and promoting renewal

Structure and organization of the programme

The Master 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.

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 programme’s main areas of study are ensemble playing and first instrument. Final examination is in the form of two main projects: a concert project and a Master project on artistic development. The specific topics of these projects shall be defined by the individual student in accordance with the requirements that apply.

The development of your final competencies within the central subject areas is supported by various courses in the first year of study, which provide you with relevant knowledge, skills and competencies. All subjects are obligatory.
The studies in the Master programme are advanced level studies, where the students are encouraged to make individual choices, to focus, specialize and work innovatively, so that their individual profiles are strengthened. Consequently, the teaching is to a large extent organized as individual projects, where you plan your own subject activities, on the basis of individual guidance from a subject supervisor, and in accordance with the requirements that apply.

To some extent, the programme also involves weekly classes and common modules, and some of the subjects are taught jointly with the Master programmes in ME and MME. In addition to this, there will be collaborative projects with RMC’s other Master programmes as well as with the other institutions of Higher Education in the Arts which are located on Holmen.

Other conditions

The Master in MP is a full-time study programme, and attendance is compulsory to all teaching activities. The primary language of instruction is Danish. However, the programme will also include courses and modules taught by foreign teachers, where the language of instruction will typically be English.