Founded in 1857, the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart is the oldest and - with almost 800 students – the most prominent University of Music in Baden-Wurttemberg. Located along Stuttgart's "Culture Mile," the university is critical to Stuttgart and the surrounding region, not only as a university but also as a concert promoter and cultural center.
The university offers a wealth of subjects. Besides piano, organ, and singing, students can also study all of the orchestral instruments, composition, conducting of (orchestra and choir), guitar, harp, and elementary music pedagogy (EMP). Musicology and the theory of music round-off our comprehensive range of practical subjects on offer in Stuttgart. All the subjects can be studied in either the artistic or music pedagogical courses. We also offer school music and church music. Students can complement their studies with time spent at the orchestral academy of the RSO Stuttgart. For musicology and music pedagogy, the university can confer doctoral degrees and award post-doctoral (professorial) qualifications.
Concerning the performing arts (opera school, theatre, visual theatre – puppetry and animation, spoken arts), the university benefits from its theater (Wilhelma theater). We also operate an opera studio in cooperation with the Staatsoper Stuttgart to promote vocal training: and an acting studio in conjunction with the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart and several other theaters in Baden-Württemberg offer students a means of gaining practical experience.
Annually, there are about 450 public concerts in the architecturally attractive university building with its imposing, 50 m high tower in the center of the state capital Stuttgart. The university accommodates three concert halls with up to 500 seats. Around 100 more concert- and theatre events are shown at the Wilhelma theater. About 85,000 visitors a year attend these events.
A few more of the university's critical differentiating features include the university's theatre dating from 1840, the unique collection of 11 organs, a technically well-equipped studio for electronic music, and the only current figure theatre course former West German states.
The university is organized into four faculties and eleven institutes. One active support association and two university-own foundations sustain the university. For commercial tasks, the university can refer to its GmbH as a subsidiary.
The State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart is a member of the Rectors' Conference of the German Universities of Music, the HRK – German Rectors' Conference, and the Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC).
VESPA meaning Verbund für Sprachenangelegenheiten, is a university language course cooperation program between Hochschule der Medien, together with Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart as well as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, which aims at teaching languages together and across institutional borders.
In 2001 the university decided to employ a new strategy, electing for the first time in its history an external applicant as president, Prof. Dr. Werner Heinrichs. Before he was appointed president, he had been the Professor of Arts Management. In 2002 the second phase of construction was completed by Stirling, Wilford, and Associates (today » Wilford Schupp Architekten). This included the multiply award-winning School or Theatre, Elementary Music Education, and Organ Collection. A year later, in 2003, the university was awarded the right to confer doctoral degrees in musicology and music pedagogy. In 2005, the university re-structured itself completely, giving rise to its current four faculties and eleven institutes. The infamous Bologna Reforms triggered the administrative changes of 2008 when under Pro-rector Prof. Dr. Matthias Hermann, the study's program was converted to the Bachelor and Master system. Alongside one active support association, the university has been fortunate enough to benefit from two universities' foundations since 2010. Concerning commercial concerns, the university utilizes its own company in the form of a GmbH, which it has been using as a subsidiary since 2006.
The university's outstanding reputation is reflected in the countless first-rate appointments, the many successful international competitions, and professional public relations. Annually, the university receives some 2,800 applications for 100 possible study places, powerful testimony indeed of its reputation.
The Bachelor of Music course enables you to study: all-instrumental subjects (except accordion), singing, orchestral conducting, choral conducting, composition, music theory, and elementary music pedagogy.
The Bachelor of Music course has a total duration of 8-semesters and is an undergraduate program divided into 2-phases of 4-semesters each.
Alongside your main artistic field of study and ensemble practice (orchestra/choir/chamber music), the syllabus in semesters 1-4 (essential undergraduate phase) includes the following modules: music theory (the rudiments of composition, study of harmony, counterpoint), musicology, aural training, and methodology as well as piano as a minor field of study. The primary undergraduate phase ends on the successful completion of your intermediate exam.
Semesters 5-8 (the advanced undergraduate phase) concentrates more on your main artistic field of study and ensemble practice. Analysis and music education are reflection modules. Part of your intermediate exam will entail deciding on your main focus for your degree's advanced undergraduate phase: otherwise known as the profiling phase. In the profile phase, we offer a wide range of options to accommodate as many interests as possible. The profiles you choose will influence your final Bachelor's degree exams and can, to some extend, be considered as a move towards specialization in later postgraduate programs.
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