Master Music Music Pedagogy (all instruments)

Course Administration

Prof. Dr. Andreas Doerne
Michael Stecher

Description of the master's degree in music education
for instrumental and vocal teachers

Diverse educational processes in music education contexts

The master's degree in music education enables existing music education skills to be deepened while at the same time continuing high-quality individual artistic lessons on the instrument. The range of study content is based on current job-related requirements, for example at music schools, and to a large extent on the individual artistic and educational learning needs of each individual student.

For this purpose, the curriculum is divided into ten subject areas, which are seen in their concrete relation to and their importance for making music and teaching. These subject areas are:

Instrumental and Vocal Teaching Practice
Creative Music Making
Aural Music Practice and Learning
Music and Movement / The Body as Core-Instrument
Elementary Music Education
Popular Music & Music of the World
Digital Media & Music Production
Concert Pedagogy & Education Projects
Musical Adult Education & Higher Education
Music and Medicine

In the first semester, mandatory introductory events are offered for all subject areas. Afterwards, the students put together their individual specialization profile from the above-mentioned subject areas, which consists of their own artistic, educational and scientific projects. This individual profile formation takes place in personal responsibility as a self-directed study accompanied by the lecturers. The master’s degree is designed around the idea of returning to the core of a university understanding of education, which is learning through independent research within a community of teachers and learners.

Entry Requirements:

It is only possible to start studying in the Music Pedagogy Master in the winter term.

(see Immatrikulationssatzung)

Completed Bachelor's degree at a German university of music or a comparable music-related course of study, e.g. Bachelor of Music or a completed school music degree, etc.

Successfully passed entrance examination which consists of two parts: An artistic-instrumental and a music-educational part
(Registration deadline: 1st of April for the following winter term)