Musical Arts Program
University of Ljubljana
Key Information
Campus location
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
EUR 15,000 / per year
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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Introduction
The Musical Arts program is dedicated primarily to future soloists, chamber and/or orchestral musicians, composers, and conductors. Students can choose from the twenty-six principal studies. The primary field of study is taught in the form of intense individual lessons for two hours per week.
The University of Ljubljana Academy of Music offers many performance opportunities: there are 150+ student-performed concerts and events annually. Slovenia’s finest orchestras participate in the Tutti concert subscription series organized by the Academy: the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Slovenian National Theatre Opera & Ballet, the Ljubljana Orchestra and the Slovenian National Opera Theatre Maribor Symphony Orchestra. Through the Tutti series, more than twenty students per year are selected by audition, to perform with these elite, national orchestras as soloists. The orchestras also perform pieces by the students of composition and offer practice opportunities for the conducting students. In the same series, the Academy’s Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Wind Orchestra, Big Band, Chamber, and Women’s Choir also give performances. The Solo e da Camera subscription series presents the Academy’s best soloists, chamber groups, and ensembles to perform in many Academy concerts, as part of planned concert programs. The UL Academy of Music’s referral service provides gigs for students as soloists or in chamber groups and ensembles.
The UL Academy of Music is internationally known and recognized as representing the highest musical values and conforming to the highest standard of music education by offering innovative individual and group programs. Envisioning many international collaborations and tours in Europe and globally as the main driving force of the future, we continue to encourage music to open dialogues and build strong connections with our partners.
Admissions
Curriculum
- Arranging for Small Ensembles for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Arranging for Large Ensembles 1 and 2 only for principal studies: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting, sacred music
- Big band 1 and 2 only for principal studies: piano, guitar, double bass, percussion instruments, trumpet, trombone, saxophone
- Combo 1 and 2 only for principal studies: piano, guitar, double bass, percussion instruments, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, flute, clarinet, violin
- Harpsichord B only for principal studies: piano, organ, recorder, sacred music
- Editorial Techniques 1 for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Electro-acoustic Music only for principal studies: composition and music theory
- Film music only for the principal study: composition and music theory
- Film Music and Purposeful Music for all principal studies except: composition and music theory and harpsichord
- Music and Technology for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Music Journalism 1 for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Musics of the World: Anthropology of Music for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Gregorian Chant - Selected Chapters only for principal study sacred music
- Historically Informed Performance 1 and 2 for all principal studies except: harpsichord, recorder
- Historically Informed Performance M1 and M2 for all principal studies except: organ, harpsichord, recorder, sacred music
- Instrument or Singing with Jazz Improvisation 1 and 2: for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting in sacred music
- Instrumentation 1: only for principal study sacred music
- Art Song Interpretation for Singers and Pianists only for principal studies: singing, piano
- Selected chapters from History of Music for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Jazz Harmony A1 and A2 only for principal studies: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting and choir conducting
- Jazz Harmony B1 for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting, harpsichord in sacred music
- Piano M1A and M1B only for principal studies: composition and music theory, singing, organ, sacred music
- Piano M1C only for principal studies: composition and music theory in singing
- Piano M2A only for principal studies: orchestral conducting, choir conducting, sacred music
- Chamber Music M1 and M2 for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting and sacred music
- Chamber Music with Basso Continuo M1 for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting, organ, harpsichord, recorder, sacred music.
- Chamber Music with Basso Continuo M2 for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting and choir conducting
- Chamber String Orchestra M1 and M2 only for principal studies: violin, cello, viola, double bass
- Composing Music for Media only for the principal study: composition and music theory
- 20th-Century and 21st-Century Composition Techniques for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Korrepetition of Vocal-instrumental Works 1 and 2 only for principal studies: orchestral conducting and choir conducting
- Lute 1 and 2 only for the principal study: guitar
- Multimedia 1 and 2 only for the principal study: composition and music theory
- Organ A1 and A2: only for principal study sacred music (module Choir conducting)
- Orchestra Artistic Project for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting and choir conducting
- Pedagogy and Andragogy for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting and sacred music
- Pedagogy and Andragogy 1 and 2 only for principal studies: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting and sacred music
- Advanced Rhythmic Studies for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Audition Preparation for Bowed Strings only for principal studies: violin, cello, viola, double bass
- Psychology for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting, sacred music
- Psychology 1 and 2 only for principal studies: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting in sacred music
- Psychology of Music for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Scene Design of Parts only for the principal study: singing
- Semiology of Polyphony only for principal studies: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting, choir conducting, recorder, harpsichord, guitar,
- Semiology of Polyphony and Tablatures for all principal studies except sacred music
- Sociology of Music for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Solfeggio M for all principal studies except: harpsichord
- Related String Instruments M1 and M2 only for principal studies: violin, viola, cello, double bass
- Related Wind and Wood Instruments M1 and M2 only for principal studies: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba and related instruments
- Chamber Music Artistic Project for all principal studies except: composition and music theory, orchestral conducting and choir conducting
- Ensemble Leading (Basics of Conducting) for all principal studies except: orchestral conducting, choir conducting and sacred music
- Choir M1 and M2: for all principal studies except: sacred music (module choir conducting)
Program Outcome
The aim of the program is to prepare the graduates for working in the field of their principal study¬, as performing artists (instrumental soloists, chamber musicians, orchestral musicians, singing soloists, choral singers, musicians dedicated to sacred music, conductors, and composers). Upon completing the program, the graduates will be competitive in the international artistic labor market.
Subject-specific learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program, the graduates will be able to express themselves in the field of their principal study; develop their musical imagination; be able to understand musical subject and form; master artistic interpretation in the field of their principal study by profoundly mastering its technical and expressive elements; understand the cause and effect processes in the field of their principal study; be familiar and be able to use historically informed performance of all periods, from the renaissance onwards; have in-depth knowledge and the ability to independently use different processes of studying an artistic work; be familiar with specific demands of preparing and organizing artistic performances; understand the context of music history and music literature of Slovenian and classical music in general; be able to evaluate music artistic expression; be able to share their knowledge of music with professionals and laymen alike