Published: 01. January 2010
The Music Performance Programme prepares the student for a career as a performing musician on a professional level. Subjects include principal study, chamber music and orchestra (for orchestral instruments), aural training, harmony, analysis and music history. This programme is open to applicants with a background from classical music as well as jazz, pop, or rock music or traditional (Nordic) folk music.
In the first part of the programme (the first and second years), all courses are compulsory and consist of performance subjects and more theoretical subsidiary subjects. In the second part of the study programme (the third and fourth years), the students are much freer to choose the subjects they wish to include.
Since most theoretical subjects are in the first part of the programme and all tuition is in Norwegian, applicants not speaking a Scandinavian language (Danish, Norwegian or Swedish) are advised to apply to the second part.
Admission to the 2nd part (from year three) requires minimum 2 years of higher education in music. Tuition is in English, with the exception of the Opera and Traditional Folk Music Programmes where tuition is in Norwegian.
Opera
The Norwegian Academy of Music offers a special variant of the 2nd part of the Bachelor Degree in Performance for singers who wish to specialise in opera. Entrance qualifications for this course will be minimum 2 years of higher education with classical voice as principal study, and musical skills to be documented at audition. Since this programme requires proficiency in Norwegian, please see the Norwegian programme description for more information.
Additional Information
Language requirements
Entrance requirements
Repertoire requirements for the auditions
Description of the auditions
Video audition for international applicants to the 2nd part of the programme
Application Form 2011
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