Choral conducting
Laying the foundations for a career in choral conducting
Key data
- Degree
- Master of Arts FHNW in Spezialisierter Musikalischer Performance, Studienrichtung Chorleitung
- ECTS points
- 120
- Start of semester
- Beginning of September
- Studying mode
- Full time
- Duration
- 4 semesters
- Teaching language
- German, A2 level in German required
- Place
- Campus Musik-Akademie Basel
- Stay abroad
- Possible, not curricular
- Application fee
- 200 CHF
- Semester fee
- 700 CHF (CH) | 1000 CHF (EU/EFTA) | 1250 CHF (Not-EU/Not-EFTA) More Fees
The FHNW Master of Arts in Specialised Music Performance Choral Conducting is aimed at students with a Bachelor or Master’s degree in Music who wish to pursue a career as a choral conductor.
Perfecting conducting, vocal and instrumental techniques
Students will work with both secular and sacred choral music. This specialised graduate programme aims to produce knowledgeable, versatile and flexible professional choral conductors. Students perfect their conducting, vocal and instrumental techniques, and benefit from tuition that draws on the latest research in a variety of fields such as historical performance practice. Students also learn to adopt a critical approach to the use and reading of primary sources.
Overview
Learning from the best
Martin Wettges, born in Regensburg in 1983, studied conducting at the conservatories in Cincinnati, Vienna and Munich and has been choral director of the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo since 2018. Previously he held the same position at Opera North in Leeds. In 2016, he changed to the Meininger Staatstheater as choral director with conducting duties, where he regularly conducted symphony concerts with the traditional Meininger Hofkapelle in addition to opera performances. As a choral conductor, he has worked with the choir of the Herrenchiemsee Festival, the Meiningen Kantorei, the Munich Motet Choir, and many others. Martin Wettges is also artistic director of the choral festival Various Voices. He lectured in conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 2008 to 2013. In 2012, he was also called to lecture at the Institute for Musicology at the LMU Munich. Since 2011, Martin Wettges has been artistic director of the Music Academy of the German National Academic Foundation in Brixen/South Tyrol, which he founded.