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The International College of Liberal Arts (iCLA) at Yamanashi Gakuin University is a four- year, liberal arts college in Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan. The language of instruction is English, with the exception of some Japanese language and cultural courses. International students study Japanese language alongside their degree studies, starting from any level, even complete beginner. Students can choose from a wide array of courses in various disciplines, learning from an intuitive and practical curriculum which incorporates one year studying abroad at one of our 70+ partner universities in more than 30 countries around the world. The innovative courses taught at iCLA lead to a bachelor’s degree in International Liberal Arts with majors in Global Business and Economics, Political Science, Interdisciplinary Arts, and Japan Studies. In addition to Japanese Language courses, studies can also take electives in subject areas like Data Science, Quantitative Reasoning and Natural Sciences, Psychology and Sociology, and Health and Physical Education. Over 60% of our students and 60% of our faculty members are from overseas and hail from over 40 different countries, creating a truly multi-cultural environment. Located just 90 minutes west of Tokyo, Yamanashi is famed for its breathtaking landscapes, historic sites, hot springs, hiking trails, fruit orchards and vineyards, against the iconic backdrop of Mount Fuji. iCLA offers students the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the very essence of Japan and its culture, whilst acquiring a contemporary and globally relevant education at our state of the art facilities. For more information on our admissions requirements, fees, and scholarship opportunites, please visit the iCLA Homepage or download a copy of our student brochure. You can find out more about why Japan is a great study destination in our top ten reasons to study in Japan.

For nearly 140 years, Middlesex University London and its predecessor institutions have been home to innovators and change-makers. We are a progressive London university that puts our students first and provides expert teaching informed by inspiring research and practice. We boast one of the most diverse, multinational, and multicultural communities of students and staff of any university in the UK, with almost 19,400 students and 1,900 staff from 140 different countries based at our modern north London campus in Hendon alone. Middlesex University London generates more than £280 million a year for the Barnet economy, supporting some 3,800 local jobs. We work with employers to make sure that what our students learn is what employers need, and we strive to transform our students' lives so that they have an excellent experience while they are with us and a solid foundation for inspiring careers when they leave us. Middlesex's flagship London campus combines modern facilities and expert teaching with the advantage of studying in one of the most diverse and exciting cities on earth. In recent years we have invested more than £200 million to transform our London campus into a state-of-the-art center for excellence, with facilities and equipment that rival those of the world's top universities. That investment included a new purpose-built center for art, design, media, and performing arts students and dedicated labs and studios for those studying science, technology, and health courses. Our most recent addition, the Ritterman Building, is an award-winning, environmentally-friendly development packed with the latest equipment and teaching facilities. Whatever you study at Middlesex London, you will have access to the best possible tools to help you achieve success in your field. Middlesex London is also a beautiful place to study. At its heart is the historic College building, centered around an expansive courtyard where students and staff can meet in a relaxed atmosphere. There are also many other open areas where you can socialize in exhibition spaces, cafes, and parks. A short journey on the Northern line will take you into central London, where you can enjoy all the historical, cultural, and social experiences unique to our great city. Ranked as the Top Modern University in London. - (Complete University Guide, 2017) £200m invested in outstanding facilities for learning and teaching. 91% of all our graduates are in employment within six months of graduating. 90% of our research is internationally recognized. - (REF, 2014) Ranked Top 3 in London by our students in half of our subjects. - (National Student Survey, 2013) Ranked in the Top 10 for Graduate Salaries in the UK. - (The Times Higher Education, 2011) We offer more than 300 Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs. One hundred forty nationalities represented by students at our London campus.

NYU Abu Dhabi Mission NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated at once to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity's shared challenges. Drawing on the NYU global network's strengths, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and responds in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges. NYUAD advances NYU as a model university for the 21st century and contributes in multiple ways to the development of a sustainable, knowledge-based economy in Abu Dhabi. Global University NYU New York, NYU Abu Dhabi, and NYU Shanghai form the backbone of NYU's global network of degree-granting campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable students' seamless international mobility faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. The first of its kind, this global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. Designed to draw the most talented and creative students and faculty from around the world, it enables those students and faculty to circulate throughout the network while retaining access to the University's intellectual community and resources. NYU Abu Dhabi's international composition, rigorous academic program, innovative research capacity, and the location at the crossroads of the Arab world creates valuable opportunities for faculty and students across the global network to engage in academic dialogue in the Middle East and beyond.

Students of the Odesa Academy of music pass their practical training and its graduates successfully work at the Odesa National State Opera and Ballet Theater, the Odesa National symphonic orchestra, the Odesa theatre of musical comedy, the V. Vasilko Odesa Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater, in many concerts, scientific and educational institutions of Odesa, Ukraine, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, in Russia, France, Finland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavian republics, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, China, Vietnam, and in many other countries of the world. The Odessa conservatoire (for the time being – the Odessa national A. V. Nezhdanova academy of music) was created on donations of V. A. Orlov, the chairman of Management of the Odessa branch of IRMS(the Imperial Russian Musical Society), and those of other members of this branch, as well as due to the decision of the Main Management of the Russian musical society based on the Odessa musical school (founded in 1897) on the 8-th of September 1913. On the Russian empire's territory, the Odessa conservatoire became the fourth higher educational musical institution – after St.-Petersburg, Moscow and Saratov conservatoires. The Odessa conservatoire's fast development was provided by the attraction of outstanding teachers-musicians from Italy, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Austria, St.-Petersburg, and Moscow. A Polish composer, a pianist, a conductor and a musicologist Witold Maliszewski (Witold Iosifovich Malishewski) – N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov's disciple – became the first rector of the Odessa conservatoire. Therefore the Odessa conservatoire turned into a higher educational musical institution of the European level from its very beginning. Among the scientific and pedagogical professional community of the Academy are worthy of being noted: Four academicians 41 professors 11 doctors of sciences 89 senior lecturers 76 candidates of science 9 National Artists of Ukraine 32 Honored Artists of Ukraine 17 Honored Workers of arts of Ukraine 6 Honoured Workers of the culture of Ukraine and 1 Honoured Worker of education of Ukraine The scale of W. Maliszewski's creative activities was tremendous. He entered into the Odessa conservatoire history as its talented principal and a musician and as a progressive public figure. E.g., in 1917, the first rector addressed the congress of directors and senior teachers of conservatories in Petrograd. "The southern musical bulletin," wrote: "Only the director of the Odessa conservatoire Professor W.Maliszewski who had girded up his loins for the congress offered six very considerable and important questions to its consideration: 1) separating of musical schools from conservatories 2) the relation of the state to IRMS 3) revision of rights as to diplomas and certificates 4) cancellation of the category of free listeners in conservatoires 5) revision of military privileges 6) on returning of the new Statute of the Conservatoire from the ministry and its consensual formalization". In the first year of the Odessa conservatoire's existence, 396 pupils from 603 persons who submitted their applications for entering this educational institution were enrolled. Along with that, 395 persons were transferred from the musical school. The most significant number of pupils was accepted in piano classes, a smaller quantity – in violin, vocal, wind instruments, necessary orchestral instruments and music theory classes. From the beginning of the existence of Conservatoire vocal and young opera classes make themselves known alongside numerous piano classes. J. Reider, D. Delfino-Menotti and Palibina were chief teachers in these classes during those years. In 1913 N. Baryshev, a performer of the opera theatre having stage director's abilities became the opera class's head. Using N. Baryshev's efforts, the opera class realized its best performances. The bright culmination of the opera class's work became "Concerts devoted to national epic" arranged by N. Baryshev at the city theatre in 1916 where students of the conservatory's final year were acting. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov's operas "Kashchey the Immortal", "Vera Sheloga" and fragments from "The Tsar's Bride" accompanied by the conservatoire orchestra under W. I. Maliszewski's direction were executed. Thus, the first turn-out of vocalists confirmed that the Odessa conservatoire became really "a musical and singing conservatoire" – as musical figures of the city dreamed about it long before its opening. Notably, all these structural changes were perceived only as external factors. No reorganization could extinguish the spirit of creativity reigned in the Odessa conservatoire and educational institutions connected with it. The Odesa Academy of music renders methodical assistance and provides teaching personnel for Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Uman, Ternopil, Simferopol, Kirovograd, Kryvyi Rih; it works in close cooperation with the South Ukrainian national pedagogical university K. D. Ushinsky. Almost all Odesa branch members of the National Union of Ukraine are graduates from the Odesa conservatoire. Teachers of the South Ukrainian national pedagogical university K. D. Ushinsky, of the Odesa school of culture and arts K. F. Dankevich, of the Odesa special Prof. P. S. Stolyarsky music school, pass their training at the Odesa Academy of music.

The Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy is the successor of the rich artistic, educational, and scientific traditions of the Conservatory of Galician Music Society, the Mykola Lysenko Higher Musical Institut, The Karol Szymanowski Conservatory, and the Faculty of Musicology of Lviv University. The academy, which arose from renaming and combining these institutions, is the oldest higher musical school in Ukraine and one of the oldest among Eastern and Central Europe. The system of higher music education in Galicia, from its beginning until the mid-twentieth century, has always been incorporated in the evolution of higher music education in Europe. However, after 1939, for many decades, the Ukrainian system of higher musical education was completely separate from the natural processes of music education in Europe. Citizens of Canada, China, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and the USA studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy at different times and under various international agreements and programs. In 2000, the International cooperation unit was set up to work with international students., The unit's task was to ensure the proper organization of the reception, training, and visa support of foreign citizens. The Vice-rector heads the International cooperation unit for international relations – assoc. The Prof. Ostap Maychyk Learning process supervises Ms. Maria Savchuk Yuriy Hryhorash is responsible for documentation of passport and visa services and health insurance. The academy's medical point can serve international students (located at Zelena str., 96 at Student house and Municipally clinic No.1 at Rus'ka str., 20. Ukrainian insurance company "PROSTO strakhuvannya" ["JUST insurance"] is a leading partner of the Academy for Health insurance of foreigners. Foreign students receive a "Certificate of emergency medical aid to foreign citizens."The licensed amount of international students for every year is 50 people. Our goal for the next five years should be to fully overcome the long-term historical isolation through a qualitative change in the structure of education in the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy via combining deep traditions with the best actual trends of music education in Europe. To achieve this goal, we should realize several objectives. Objectives of our academy are: Intensification and further development of cooperation between the Academy and partner institutions in Europe and elsewhere. Establishing new contacts with music academies and other musical institutions in Europe and elsewhere. Further development of the academy's curriculum under the new legislation on education and actual trends of European music education. Changing the programs of subjects based on known European music universities and partner institutions of the European Union and Norway and post-Soviet countries that integrate its education system into the European educational process. Broadening the use of new technologies in the educational process. Broadening alternative forms of education (workshops, master-classes, courses, etc.) with broad participation of foreign experts. Increasing the number of subjects from the field of jazz music and creating the jazz department to get specialization "jazz musician" for students. Development and broadening of the Experimental educational studio for electroacoustic music and audio recording. Broadening of the number of disciplines from the field of "Music production" and "Music computer technologies" in the curriculum with the ability to get specialization "sound engineer," "sound register," "electroacoustic composition," etc. for students. Development and broadening of the subjects from the field of interpretation of renaissance, baroque and early classical music with the perspective of the ability to specialize for students "specialist in the field of historical performance." Implementation and development of the programs of staff and students mobility. The academy allows students to live at Student House for 300 places. The Student House is located at Zelena str., 96. It is near the city center and the academy's main building (about 20 minutes walk). There are also few guest rooms, rehearsal rooms of the jazz department, and a small cafe at the Student House.

Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Thailand, is a unique music conservatory with a contemporary approach to classical music. Initiated in 2007 as a royal project celebrating the 84th birthday of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra. The Princess has graciously given her name to the new endeavor, the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music or PGVIM. Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana's interest in a music-focused not only on her support for musicians but also on the right audience with an unmatchable understanding of music. With the spirit of an exceptional teacher and her vision, she also emphasized the educational aspect of music and artistic development. Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana has consistently supported musical organizations and activities through various funding sources, including "The Fund for Classical Music Promotion under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana." The "Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music" was also established after her graciously grant her name to the Institute in 2007 during her 84th birthday, with the goals to develop new talents in music as educating and expanding knowledge of music to general audiences in Thailand. Following her royal vision to educate new audiences as well as developing an international standard for Thai musicians, through our Youth Orchestra, Community Choir, Education Populaire, and Audience Development Project, the Institute aims to create platforms for students, musicians, professionals, and general audiences in order to exchange their musical experiences, make dialogues and share their love of music. The Institute's goal is to be a leading international conservatory of music. With our mission to develop young talents, our creatively designed curriculum shall provide the student's opportunities to learn the skill of music-making while developing their understanding of music as a tool for the advancement of man and society's harmony. Starting from 2014, the Institute will recruit 30 qualified students per year, alongside our many activities aim to promote a more in-depth understanding of classical music within the contemporary context of the World. On this auspicious occasion to honor Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana, the gracious patron of classical music in Thailand, Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music creates regular musical activities for musicians and general audiences. Following her vision to educate new audiences and develop an international standard for Thai musicians, the Institute has established platforms for students, musicians, professionals, and general audiences to allow them to exchange their musical experiences, make dialogues, and share their love of music. This music conservatory has continuously received full support from the government. The Act of Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music was graciously announced on the 25th of May 2012. The Institute is from now on ready to fulfill the aspiration of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhivas Rajanagarindra at full capacity."

In March 2014, Prof. Rico Gubler, saxophonist, composer, and jurist, assumed the University of Music Lübeck. Having studied saxophone with Iwan Roth in Basle, with Marcus Weiss in Zurich, and with Jean-Michel Goury in Paris, Rico Gubler started to specialize in contemporary music, free improvisation, and in the live performance of electronic music. In 1997 and 1998, he was awarded the Migros Cooperative Association (Migros Genossenschaftsbund) and the Ernst Göhner Foundation. Afterward, he studied composition with Balz Trümpy in Basle and Salvatore Sciarrino in Florence. In 1998 he won the Prize of the Club de mécénat Suisse en France. He was supported by grants from the Künstlerhof Schreyan in Lower Saxony (2001), the Landis & Gyr Foundation, from the Royal Academy in London (2001/02), and Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr Foundation (2004). In 2004 he was awarded a working year from Zurich's city for his work as a composer in 2005 for his work as a performer. In addition to performances as a soloist at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Steirischer Herbst, Wien Modern, the Salzburger Festspiele, the MaerzMusik Berlin, and the Biennale München, Rico Gubler has played in various chamber music formations. He has developed artistic contacts with the Klangforum Wien, the Ensemble Aventure, the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, the SWR Orchestra Baden-Baden, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, the Kammerorchester München, the Orchestre de Chambre de Neuchâtel, and the Philharmonische Werkstatt Schweiz. Next to his creative works, Rico Gubler studied Law in Zurich and graduated with Lizenziat II. From 2004 to 2014, he taught saxophone and chamber music at the Lugano Music Conservatoire. From 2010 to 2014, he was director of a study program and part of the leading team at the University of Music in Basle. Martin Hundelt is responsible for the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts programs. He was a professor of voice at the University of Arts in Berlin from 1993 to 2012. In 2001 he started lecturing at the MHL. He studied voice at the MHL in the class of Prof. Ute Niss. As a concert singer, he performs internationally on various stages and festivals. Moreover, as an opera singer, he was engaged in productions by the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Hans-Otto Theatre in Potsdam. Radio and television recordings by NDR, HR, BR, SWR, and Danish and Czech radio channels document his work. The University Library of MHL is the information center and the University's primary area of learning. As an academic library specialized in music, it supports both students and instructors in their studies, teaching, research, and artistic skills by procuring and supplying specialist information in print or electronic form. It makes available a comprehensive stock of media, which is aligned to the needs of the University. It also facilitates access to information available worldwide. The acquisition of competence in media and research skills is promoted through introductory talks and training sessions. The MHL Library offers an attractive and up-to-date supply of technical equipment and expertise. The extensive body of complete academic scores and all other library collections are systematically displayed openly for public access and borrowing. Reference books, complete scores, audio, and audio-visual media can be used exclusively in the library. 100 years MHL. In 2011, the University of Music Lübeck celebrated its anniversary with more than 50 special events and projects. From a private initiative, professional music education was born in Lübeck back in 1911. Founded according to the first German Conservatory model of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, the piano teacher Louise Kaibel opened the Lübecker Konservatorium der Musik in »Schüsselbuden No. 2«. Throughout history, the institution changed it is rank and status several times. Until the State of Schleswig-Holstein's only training center for music professionals granted the school-university status in 1973. Outstanding artists, such as the composer Hugo Distler, have worked in the predecessor institutions' management and training. They laid the foundation for developing MHL, which is an internationally acclaimed center of education. Communication is essential for MHL. Inwardly, it supports the triad of artistic creativity and productivity, scientific knowledge, and pedagogical teaching. Outwardly it conveys an image between MHL and outsiders and prospective students, visitors, guests, and representatives of culture, society, politics, and the media. The areas Artistic Administration (KBB), Marketing and Press office are responsible for coordinating and implementing external and internal communication of MHL. Contact persons can be found at the Haus der Kommunikation at Großen Petersgrube 27. The subject area Marketing's primary task is the best presentation and positioning of the MHL in the public eye. After presenting MHL events, ideas, and products, questions concerning target groups are essential, just as is their pricing. Corresponding analyzes, target definitions, and planning strategies are also part of this and operational implementation and monitoring. Marketing is responsible for external communication, both editorially and for the production and distribution of all print products such as evening and monthly programs, posters, postcards, ads, and image products. The final editing of the MHL website is also an integral part of Marketing's activities.

We want to initiate a dialogue with graduates, former teaching staff, and students of the HfMDK. We want to keep in touch with you, win you as a friend of the University, and in the meantime, we endeavor to broaden the scope of artistic programs of study with your help through an alumni network. As an alumnus or alumna of the HfMDK, you will receive the university magazine "Frankfurt in Takt" and our monthly events letter by email. Furthermore, you will be invited to academic celebrations at the University and to the "Kunstübungen - exercises in arts" of the "Friends of the University". Please fill in the Alumni membership form and post or fax it (+49 (0) 69-154 007 161). Your membership in our Alumni network is free. Please keep an interested, sympathetic but critical eye on the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts development. Attend our events, visit us, keep in touch! We would be delighted. The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts has its origins in Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium, a foundation established by the Frankfurt burgher, Dr. Joseph Hoch, in 1878. The founding Principal Joachim Raff and his successors were able to attract renowned and internationally distinguished artists as teachers at the University, such as the pianist Clara Schumann, Engelbert Humperdinck, and the cellist Hugo Becker. During the pre-World War One period, many students from all over the world studied in Frankfurt. Some of them were going on to become famous, such as Eduard McDowell, Percy Grainger, Ernst Toch, Otto Klemperer, Hans Rosbaud, and Paul Hindemith. After 1918, the Conservatorium attracted attention through new, innovative courses and contents which were promoted by Bernhard Seals, who was appointed Principal in 1923: these included founding an opera school, early musical education for very young children, courses for adults as well as the first German jazz class in 1927. We are the State of Hesse's University for music, theatre, and dance and an essential institution in Hessian cultural life. We act by our social mandate, and our community is international. We profile ourselves as active partners in an extensive field of regional, national, and international networks and renowned cultural institutions. The principles of freedom of art, generosity, intuition, and passion helped shape the University's spirit. Individual self-determination, acceptance of divergent views, and critical awareness all play a role in our identity. We generate innovation and interest in interdisciplinarity, and we provide freedom for experimentation, new working methods, and artistic research. Our artistic, educational, and scientific practice reflects the need to protect, maintain, and reinterpret our cultural legacy, and we help shape contemporary developments. We promote the participation of all citizens in the arts. We respond to changes in professional opportunities and rise to the challenges of demographic change, globalization, and digitalization. The University's central task is to train students to become professional and socially responsible artists, educators, and scientists, both in the teaching of the arts and in scientific research. Our educational concept is based on the values of the Enlightenment but at the same time takes 21st-century demands into account. In addition to focused, targeted working, the successful completion of a study course is also dependent on the availability of free space for independent artistic practice, self-discovery, and creative leisure. Students' intensive supervision characterizes the unique quality of the education provided at our University on a one-to-one basis, the employment of teachers who are artistically and scientifically active, the combination of theory and practice, and our diverse involvement projects and partnerships. The University is open to cooperation with civil society to expand our study offer and raise funds. We encourage lively discussions and facilitate participation and engagement. We treat each other with respect – in mutual recognition of individual skills – and create an atmosphere in which authenticity and creativity flourish. We see diversity as enrichment and do not tolerate discrimination in any form. We work actively towards the elimination of selfishness, bullying, and the abuse of power. We strive for improvement, using continued reflection. We see conflicts, errors, and mistakes as opportunities for change. It is based on this mission statement that we – the students, teachers, and administrative staff of the University – are developing our benchmark for quality and evaluation, and in doing so, shaping the future of our University. Frankfurt am Main, February 10, 2014 The Institute of Contemporary Music (I z M) was founded in June 2005. The concept behind it is to act as an interface between the departments, offering teaching in contemporary music for all departments of the University. This includes workshops, colloquia, guest lectures, excursions, lecture series, and symposia. The I z M initiates interdisciplinary projects and collaborates with local and national institutions, including the Ensemble Modern, the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Frankfurt Opera, the Archive Woman and Music, the State Theatre Wiesbaden, and the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival. The Institute mirrors events of local and national cultural life, bringing them into the University. In this way, the I z M promotes contemporary music both inside and outside University walls. It organizes regular events for the broader public, including the «Shortcuts» when teachers and students perform extracts from their ongoing work every two weeks. Since September 2007, the Shortcuts are also held on every third Tuesday of the month at the Museum Wiesbaden. Under the label «Ensemble I z M,» students work together on projects in different lineups. In winter semester 2006/2007, the Ensemble Modern and the HfMDK set up the master course.

Based in the home-town of German Classicism and rich in tradition, the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is an institution of higher education for young musicians, academics, and ambassadors of music from across the entire globe. It is indebted to the legacy of Franz Liszt, who successfully combined in his person composer, virtuoso, ensemble musician, pedagogue, and pensive philosopher. The institution aims to compete with the world's most renowned music academies. The envisaged outcome of education at Weimar is the ideal artistic, academic, and pedagogic personality — a figure expressed equally well in performance, musical research, and music mediation. Such a person has commanded a pool of general knowledge regarding the world's and Europe's cultural heritage and holds deep insights into contemporary culture. They are confident music entrepreneurs, active in diverse areas. They have obtained the skills necessary to be successful in the international cultural sphere. The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar gives particular weight to a strong sense of team-spirit in teaching and performance alike, in its dialogue with scholarship, and its many co-operations with the professional music world. It supports personal initiatives and encourages the distillation of an individual profile. The school's teaching centers around the modern musician as an ensemble player who brings to life artistic ideals across diverse periods and styles in various settings and contexts, from musical performance and scholarship to music mediation. The LISZT UNIVERSITY provides broad, cosmopolitan competencies relevant to the current fields of musical performance, scholarship, and music mediation. It seeks to reflect and communicate the world's music in as many facets as possible and pays particular attention to transcultural transfer processes. In an exemplary manner, the LISZT UNIVERSITY is engaged in promoting exceptionally gifted children and adolescents from an early age. Consequently, it includes in its educational portfolio the Music High School for talented musicians at Schloss Belvedere. The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is proud to have its home in the Thuringian town of Weimar. It grasps the opportunities offered by its historical rootedness in this region: in its close ties with other cultural institutions in the state of Thuringia and intellectually, continuing the tradition represented by this heartland of culture and European art music. It dedicates its work to the promotion of the Baroque music of the country's churches and residencies, the music of Weimar Classicism, and the efforts of Franz Liszt and his circle surrounding a renovation of music during the nineteenth century. Weimar's living tradition of the Bauhaus movement also suggests the active engagement with the music of the historical and contemporary avant-gardes, with particular weight being given to interdisciplinary considerations. Weimar is an excellent choice to study music: the classical city situated on the Ilm has approximately 950 students with almost ideal studying conditions. Four wholly renovated and historically essential locations are distributed around the city but are within walking distance. One can study almost every music aspect: all orchestral instruments, piano, guitar, accordion, voice, theatre, organ, early music, composition, conducting, school music, and music pedagogy. Also, jazz and music theory, musicology, and arts management are offered. Those who decide to study at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar receive the best quality teachers in a European city of culture. A lively history including Goethe and Schiller and Bach and Liszt greets the students, just as today's active organization. We can take the ultramodern studio of electroacoustic music as such an example, which works in co-operation with the neighboring Bauhaus University. Other examples include the first children's university at a German school of music and an international branch - the German School of Music Weimar in South Korea. Franz Liszt first had the idea to establish a school of music in Weimar: already in 1835, he had thoughts about the establishment of "progress schools of music". Highly-qualified instrumentalists had to be sought after to make the orchestras efficient enough for the new music of their time. For a long time, Liszt fought to establish a training center for orchestral musicians in Weimar. However, in 1872, Liszt's pupil Carl Muellerhartung realized this dream and established the first orchestral school in Germany.

The College of Catholic Church Music and Musical Education in Regensburg (HfKM) is an internationally leading educational institution for church music. Its 170 students currently come from 12 countries around the world. The College's focus has always been an artist as well as a pedagogical orientation towards education, in which church music students are also prepared for their liturgical and pastoral responsibilities in the changing structures of deaneries and parishes. Based on the great significance of the liturgy for the church's life, it is obvious how necessary it is to develop church musicians and music educators who are prepared for their occupations in the artistic and pedagogical sense and about their entire lives. The close connection between study and life at the College of Catholic Church Music and Musical Education in Regensburg (HfKM) offers the best conditions for such preparation, in addition to the educational opportunities at large state colleges and universities. When HfKM College was established, it adhered to the standards that also apply to other music colleges. About the College's competitiveness, we wanted to strive toward parity, not uniformity. Main criteria include the respective state regulations and the requirements cited in the regulatory statutes of the Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana (Art. 45 ib Ord) and the applicable regulations of the Bavarian State Ministry for Sciences, Research, and Arts. The College's structure and its relation to its church trustees are established in its constitution and in the study and examination regulations, which also follow the Apostolic Constitution's requirements. A community of young people who strive toward the same career goal makes it much easier to grow into church music-based and educational service. Regular, joint church services hone a keen sense for liturgical work concerts where students from all major subjects participate uniquely promote artistic growth. St. Andreas's Parish Church has served as a college church since 1976, and our concert hall offers ideal conditions for both. In Regensburg's city and region, there is a wide variety of cultural offerings that are both utilized and enriched by the College. The Church Music School of Regensburg is established by Franz Xaver Haberl and becomes the first Catholic church music school in the world. It has enjoyed international prominence beyond the German-speaking world since its inception. Bishop Antonius von Henle takes over the school as a "church foundation." Prince Regent Luitpold grants the foundation—which today is known as the Church Music School Foundation of Regensburg (Stiftung Kirchenmusikschule Regensburg)—state accreditation. By decree of the academic congregation, following a temporary decree from 1959, the Church Music School of Regensburg becomes permanently affiliated with the "Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra" in Rome. After being accredited in 1967 by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, it is retroactively transformed into the "Academy of Catholic Church Music and Musical Education" as of 1 January 1973. Cooperation agreements from the years 1989 and 1999 with the College for Music and Theatre in Munich enable the administration of degree examinations. The "Church Music School Foundation of Regensburg" ("Stiftung Kirchenmusikschule Regensburg") changes its statutes through a decision of its foundation board and upon permission of the Bishop of Regensburg in order to adapt them to the new purpose of the foundation and the institution's legal position as a church foundation under public law. Upon agreement with the Bavarian and German Bishops' Conference and with the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome, the Most Reverend Bishop of Regensburg, Manfred Müller, on his 75th birthday, the Festival of St. Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Regensburg, signs the decree for the establishment of the "College for Catholic Church Music and Musical Education of Regensburg" with sponsorship from the "Church Music School Foundation of Regensburg" ("Stiftung Kirchenmusikschule Regensburg"). On the festival of the patron saint of church music, St. Cecilia, a Pontifical Mass and ceremonial act take place on the occasion of the College of Catholic Church Music and Musical Education of Regensburg. Completion of the total refurbishment of the College and, at the same time, enhancement of its church-music and music-education related profile through the implementation of the European Academic Reform (Bachelor's/Master's Degrees). Church Music (with a concentration in an artistic core subject starting in the 5th semester), Conducting/Choir Direction, Instrumental Pedagogy (Organ, Harpsichord, Piano, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Flute, and Recorder), a concert subject (Organ, Harpsichord), Vocal Pedagogy. Church Music (with a concentration in an artistic core subject), Conducting/Choir Direction, a concert subject (Organ, Organ Improvisation, Harpsichord), Music Pedagogy with an artistic core subject (Organ, Organ Improvisation, Harpsichord, Piano and Voice), Music Theory/Church Music Composition, Gregorian Musicology, and Liturgical Song. This study is based on instructional collaboration in artistic, scientific, and practical mediation fields between the University and the College of Music. It can be pursued in a music/non-music subject combination (Gyv) or intensively in two music subjects (God). After completing an aptitude test, young talents can be accepted permanently until they have received their school-leaving certificate. We allow guest auditors to take two semesters of private lessons in one subject and participate in theoretical subjects upon completing an assessment test.

Founded in 1919, AUC is a leading English-language, American-accredited institution of higher education and center of the intellectual, social, and cultural life of the Arab world. Its community of students, parents, faculty and staff, trustees, alumni, and other generous sponsors represent more than 60 countries. The University stands as a crossroads for the world’s cultures and a vibrant forum for reasoned argument, spirited debate, and understanding across the diversity of languages, facilities, and human experiences. The University offers 36 undergraduate, 44 master’s, and two Ph.D. programs rooted in a liberal arts education that encourages students to think critically and find creative solutions to conflicts and challenges facing both the region and the world. The University’s educational assets include the most extensive English-language academic library collection in Egypt, three modern theaters, and 15 cross-disciplinary research centers. The University’s modern, 260-acre New Cairo campus constitutes a visionary investment in the future of Cairo, Egypt, and the region — a state-of-the-art facility for advanced research, innovative teaching, lifelong learning, and civic engagement. Chartered and accredited in the United States and Egypt, The American University in Cairo is an independent, not-for-profit, equal-opportunity institution. AUC is a premier English-language institution of higher learning. The University is committed to teaching and researching the highest caliber and offers exceptional liberal arts and professional education in a cross-cultural environment. AUC builds a leadership culture, lifelong learning, continuing education, and service among its graduates and is dedicated to making significant contributions to Egypt and the international community in diverse fields. Chartered and accredited in the United States and Egypt, The American University in Cairo is an independent, not-for-profit, equal-opportunity institution. AUC upholds the principles of academic freedom and is dedicated to excellence. Our vision is to be a world‐class university internationally recognized for its leadership and excellence in teaching, research, creative expression, and service. We build on our existing strengths to become the leading University in the Middle East and the destination of choice for students and faculty members from around the world seeking in‐depth cultural exposure, combined with outstanding academic programs, cutting‐edge research, as well as an ethically engaged, diverse community of scholars. The rooms are also equipped with heating and air conditioning and high-speed wireless internet. Units share a kitchenette with a hot plate, kettle, fridge, and microwave. Resident can watch TV, dine, socialize, or study in the common areas. In the common area, there are several study rooms and a computer lab open 24/7. The on-campus residence allows visitors during certain hours and can accommodate overnight visitors based on room availability. The residence is also equipped to assist students with special needs. This summer, AUC students traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, as part of a new course titled, The Arab Spring in Arab Eyes: Perceptions and Reflections from the Arab World. Through this course, the students were able to participate in face-to-face dialogue with their counterparts from the American University of Beirut (AUB), discussing social and political movements in the Arab region due to the Arab Spring addition to visiting NGOs, historic sites, and refugee camps. “Merging the extracurricular with the academic and learning-by-doing is extremely beneficial to students,” said Mohamed Menza, affiliate assistant professor and director of dialogue in the Office of the Core Curriculum. “It allows them to get to know what is happening on the ground and augments their understanding of the region. This course is particularly beneficial to Egyptian students at AUC, as this kind of exposure enhances students’ knowledge about themselves and Egypt as a part of the Arab region. They can expose themselves to other viewpoints and other students’ realities.” The American University in Cairo is the region’s premier English-language liberal arts University — your portal to Egypt, the Arab region, and the world. Our 260-acre, state-of-the-art campus in New Cairo is home to more than 7,000 undergraduate students from across Egypt, the Middle East, and beyond, who are hungry for new perspectives and global experience. Through its high-quality, liberal arts education in its six schools, AUC provides students the opportunity to think critically, engage with the world’s religious, political, and cultural disciplines, and find creative solutions to conflicts and challenges facing both the region and the world. They are guided by faculty, trained at the world’s top universities, and conducting research that has a significant impact in communities near and far. When they graduate, our students join a network of alumni who take leading roles in every field, on every continent.

The history of the Academy of Music in Łódź goes back to the early years of the 20th century. At this time Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowa founded a Music Conservatory, where she gathered a team of outstanding musicians and teachers. After WW II, the school was reactivated, first as State Music Conservatory, which was given on March 1, 1945 - according to a document of July 30, 1945 - a palace of Łódź factory owner, Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański, situated at 32 Gdańska St. From April 1, 1946 - by the Decision of the Ministry of Culture and Art of Feb 1, 1946 (Journal of Regulations of Min. of Culture and Art No 2 of Jul 8, 1946) - the State Music Conservatory became the State Higher School of Music. From December 1, 1981, the School changed its name to Academy of Music (Journal of Laws No 31 of Dec 12, 1981), and on July 2, 1999, it adopted the name of Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz (Journal of Laws No. 62 section 683 of December 29, 1981). Under the decision of December 1, 1992, the Academy was given the second building at 79 Kilińskiego Street, where the Main Library, together with the Record and Tape Library and reading room, has been situated since Oct 1, 1993. Some classes, for students of art education, music therapy, eurhythmics, and others, take place there as well. The Academy of Music in Łódź emphasizes the internalization of education and improving its quality. Therefore an important point of the institutional strategy is to extend its international relations. Our Academy is an active participant in Erasmus+ (PL ŁÓDŹ04), exchanging its students and teaching staff with 50 institutions from Europe (including Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom, and other countries). The 10th International Summer Masterclasses for Wind Instruments The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz would like to warmly invite pupils, students, and graduates of music schools and academies of music to participate in the 10th...

The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music teaches at six departments in Warsaw and the Department of Instrumental and Educational Studies in Białystok. The following fields are covered: composition and theory of music, conducting, instrument studies, vocal studies, music artistic education, church music, dance, and sound engineering. The University offers first level (junior) and second level (senior) courses. It launched postgraduate doctoral studies in the academic year 2006/2007. Another form of paid studies is also offered, i.e., postgraduate artistic traineeships. The costs of running these studies are covered entirely by the participants. The courses at the different departments are run according to curricula passed by the respective faculty councils and accepted by the FCUM Senate. From the academic year of 2012/2013, the curriculum also covers general music and major modules, which consist of separate subjects such as Piano, Conducting, Solo Singing (main module) Accompaniment (major module) Aural Training, History of Music with Literature, Music Forms (basic module) Foreign Language, Physical Training (general module) Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Art, Art of the 20th Century, History of Film (humanities module). Group classes have an open forum. Students who are scientifically and artistically active, students who are preparing for international competitions or other significant artistic or scientific endeavors, and students who are suffering serious hardship or are temporarily ill may study according to an individual plan and program specified by the faculty council. About 150 students graduate from the FCUM every year. The University has nearly 900 students. The different departments’ teaching programs are rooted in the history of the University and related to its evolving structure. Hence several departments teach the same field of music (Departments 2 — 6) whereas others combine several fields (Department 1 or the Department of Instrumental and Educational Studies in Białystok). Some fields can also be studied at various departments (e.g., instrumental studies at Departments 2 and 3 or the Department of Instrumental and Educational Studies in Białystok).

The history of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music goes back to November 1948, when Wrocław received a State University School of Music. At the time it was the fifth university in the city and the seventh university school of music in Poland. Initially, it exclusively had the Teaching Department in 1949 the Vocal Department was set up, and in 1950 – the Instrumental Department and the Department of Theory of Music and Conducting, and was extended shortly afterward with the Section for Composition. The four-department structure has survived with only minor modifications throughout the history of the school, with the number of fields of study offered to students being gradually increased. 1972 saw the establishment of the Section for General and Applied Music Therapy – the first research institution of its kind in Poland – and the initial enrollment of students who wanted to study the subject. In 2001 the Academy set up the Section for Jazz Music, and so became the second center in Poland (after Katowice) to train professional jazz musicians. In 2002 the Instrumental Department began accepting students who desired to specialize in playing Baroque/period instruments. In 1981 the name of the institution as a whole was changed from the State University School of Music to the Academy of Music. At the same time, it was named after Karol Lipiński (1790-1861), an outstanding violin virtuoso, who in 19th-century Europe was regarded as an equal to Niccolò Paganini. A major fact in the later history of the school was the change of its location in 1993, which ensured the integration of the academic community that had previously been spread among several buildings. In 1998, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its establishment, the Academy granted its first honoris causa doctorate it was given to conductor Tadeusz Strugała, one of its most eminent graduates. In the following years, the honorary title of doctor was conferred on other outstanding artists and personalities of the world of culture, including some world-famous figures, such as conductors Kurt Masur (1999) and Stanisław Skrowaczewski (2004), and singers Maria Fołtyn (2000) and Teresa Żylis-Gara (2003).