Early Music - Bruckneruni

The Institute for Early Music and Historical Performance Practice takes a passionate and historically informed approach to music from the Renaissance to the early Romantic period. The study program combines active chamber music and baroque orchestra life with a broad range of theory courses on historical performance practice. Students receive this practical and theoretical training from experienced and internationally active performers and researchers.

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Artistic Bachelor's Programme (KBA)

Baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque cello, viola da gamba, historical recorders, historical voice, traverse flute, baroque oboe, harpsichord, fortepiano

8 semesters / 240 ECTS / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

The artistic Bachelor’s programme (KBA) serves to provide qualified artistic and artistic-scholarly professional training. It is intended to create the basis for independent and self-reliant work as an artist and to contribute to the development and exploration of the arts through critical examination of artistic and artistic-scholarly topics. The Bachelor's programmes offer an optimal link between artistic and academic fields of work. The minor (Studienschwerpunkt), selected from a wide range of subjects, imparts specific artistic skills in addition to the foundational competencies. For the professional application of the skills acquired, there are job opportunities in the private sector, particularly in art and cultural mediation (e.g. theater, concert and radio orchestras) as a freelance musician and in the field of new media.

Artistic Master's Programme (KMA)

Baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque cello, viola da gamba, historical recorders, historical voice, traverse flute, baroque oboe, harpsichord, fortepiano

4 semesters / 120 ECTS / Master of Arts (MA)

The artistic Master’s programme (KMA) deepens the skills acquired in the bachelor programme with the aim of providing specialized artistic training. It qualifies graduates to work as independent musicians. The critical examination of artistic and artistic-scholarly issues during the course of study contributes to the development and appreciation of the arts. The Master’s programme adds to the qualifications acquired in the bachelor programme by expanding the students' knowledge in a chosen minor, in addition to deepening their skills and proficiency.

Professional fields

The professional qualifications acquired in the Bachelor’s programme are strengthened according to individual student needs. Possible career settings include opera, concert and radio orchestras, opera houses, state and city theatres, big bands and chamber music ensembles, Early and New Music ensembles, freelance work, as well as organizational and management work.

Pedagogical Master's Programme (PMA)

Baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque cello, viola da gamba, historical recorders, historical voice, traverse flute, baroque oboe, harpsichord, fortepiano

4 semesters / 120 ECTS / Master of Arts (MA)

The pedagogical Master’s programme (PMA) serves to provide highly qualified artistic-pedagogical professional training, particularly in the further development of vocal and/or instrumental ability and artistic-pedagogical and scholarly terms. The critical examination of pedagogical, artistic and artistic-scholarly issues during the course of study contributes to the development and appreciation of the arts. The Master’s programme expands on qualifications acquired in the Bachelor’s programme by broadening a students' knowledge in their chosen focus of study, as well as by deepening their skills and proficiency.

Professional fields

Possible professional fields for graduates include public and private educational institutions such as music schools, tertiary educational institutions, areas of integrative/inclusive education, work in community music and as freelance music teachers. This degree program develops skills in both teaching and artistic instruction. The skills acquired can also be applied professionally in the private sector, particularly in art and cultural mediation and in the field of new media. Upon completion of the Bachelor's programme, students are already qualified to teach; the Master's programme builds on this, furthering artistic and pedagogical knowledge and allows students to focus on a specific subject area.