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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. View full university