Music Education

The students and their artistic, pedagogical, and personal development are at the heart of the teaching and research activities at the Institute of Music Education. Its teaching staff creates the framework for this and provides a solid foundation for work in music schools, community projects, outreach formats, and much more. The institute understands pedagogical action as an artistic activity that is just as much about enjoying music as it is about assuming socio-political and social responsibility.

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Bachelor's Programme Elemental Music Education

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

The focus of the Elemental Music Education (EMP) programme is the artistic development of individual forms of expression in the areas of music, movement and voice. These areas permeate each other and are linked in a variety of ways in group-dynamic improvisation and creative processes. The experiences gained in this way form the basis for pedagogical action. Aesthetic works of art arise from the seemingly simple.

Professional fields

The programme is aimed at individuals with an interest in education and musical training who want to express themselves artistically in the areas of music, movement and voice. EMP graduates work in artistic-performative contexts as well as in numerous artistic-educational fields, including music schools, in areas of integrative/inclusive education, in adult education and in concert education.

Key qualifications: A wide range of musical and artistic interests, enjoyment of movement, improvisation and spontaneous creation, good communication skills, pedagogical flexibility, and an affinity for working with groups.

Master's Programme Elemental Music Education

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

The artistic-pedagogical Master's programme in Elemental Music Education (EMP) is based on a Bachelor's programme in EMP or a related subject. The focus of this degree programme is on experiencing and reflecting on artistic performance in the interconnection of music-movement-voice, improvisation and creation, artistic and artistic-pedagogical processes. The EMP master programme's aim is to provide students with highly qualified artistic-pedagogical professional training and profiling, to further develop their skills in the field of elemental music performance and their stance in artistic-pedagogical as well as scientific terms. The Master's programme allows students to deepen their knowledge in the area of their chosen minor in order to enhance their skills and knowledge. The Anton Bruckner University offers the four-semester Master of Arts in Elemental Music Education every year.

Teacher Education Programme for Secondary Schools (AMP)

Ten universities in Upper Austria and Salzburg (Bruckner University, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Catholic Private University Linz, University College of Teacher Education Upper Austria, Private University College of Teacher Education of the Diocese of Linz, Church University College of Teacher Education Edith Stein, University College of Teacher Education Salzburg, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Mozarteum University Salzburg, University of Arts Linz), which have joined together under the name “Cluster Mitte” to form a regional network, have been offering a joint teacher training programme for the secondary level, i.e. teaching at NMS, polytechnic schools, special needs schools, AHS, BMHS, since the 2016/17 academic year.

Teaching is an attractive, versatile and at the same time demanding profession. Accompanying children and young people on their learning and life paths and enabling them to find their way in a pluralistic society and help shape it requires a wide range of skills.

The Bruckner University, in close cooperation with the two teacher training colleges in Linz, offers a teacher training programme in music education. This programme, in combination with a second subject, qualifies graduates to teach music in secondary schools (grades 5-13, no instrumental instruction). The teacher education programme in instrumental music education is offered at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

The Bruckner University is not responsible for admissions to the teacher education programme for secondary schools. You can find more information here.