1. Hannover Conservatory of Music and Drama, Germany
Hanover Conservatory of Music and Drama was founded in 1897. Hanover enjoys a world reputation for its accordion, string and wind music. Keyboard major is world-famous, and piano major has four or five world-famous masters. Hanover Conservatory of Music and Drama offers 15 undergraduate and master's majors, such as conducting, rock music, song learning, church music, piano, composition, artist training, art education, media management, pop music, chamber music, children's education, high school music teacher's major, media and musicology, and music. In addition, the Hanover Academy of Music and Drama has the right to award doctors and university professors. Certified by China Ministry of Education.
2. Berlin University of the Arts has a history of more than 300 years. Admission requirements: with or equivalent to German high school education, the applicant from China is a formal student of the Conservatory of Music or an art middle school student, such as a middle school attached to the Conservatory of Music/an ordinary junior high school student, but has obtained the award certificate of relevant professional competitions in China; Generally between 18-30 years old, passed the entrance examination (general music knowledge examination \ major professional knowledge examination); Proficient in German. The main departments of the Conservatory of Music are: conductor, composer, church music, sound engineering, ancient music, jazz (bachelor's degree), university music and music education (master's degree includes: music therapy, chorus conductor, musicology and music education, jazz, etc. ), and the main departments of the Academy for Performing Arts are: Vocal Music/Musical Theatre, Performance, Musical Comedy, Stage Design, Costume Design, Screenplay and Modern.
3. Music and Drama Institute in Hamburg, Germany
Established in 1950, with 750 students and certified by the Ministry of Education of China. There are music department, Hamburg drama department and science and education department. Hamburg Conservatory of Music and Drama offers more than 20 undergraduate and master majors, such as instrumental music, composition/theory, jazz, Christian religious music, tunes, drama, music producer, drama producer, music teacher, culture and media management, music theory, multimedia composition, chamber music, music accompaniment, drama performance, opera and composition. Popular majors include instrumental music, drama performance, musicology and music teachers. In addition, the Hamburg Academy of Music and Drama also offers five training majors: instrumental music, pop music, emerging composition technology, folk songs and oratorios, and music theory. Hamburg Conservatory of Music and Drama is one of the largest music universities in Germany.
4. Vienna National Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Austria
Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts was originally founded in 18 12, and became a singing school five years later. 18 19 opened a violin class, and four years later, an opera school was added. Since 1908, the school has established Chinese studies. 1970 obtained university status. The school has departments of composition, music theory and command, keyboard, stringed instruments, percussion instruments and music education. The two majors are musical instrument pedagogy, musical action pedagogy, music therapeutics and musical instrument pedagogy. The teaching music department mainly includes Catholic church music (choir and its conductor, organ), Christian church music (choir and its conductor, organ), Catholic church music theory and Christian church music theory. Department of solo and musical performance, department of drama director, department of film and television. Preparatory course for instrumental and vocal music, instrumental music, piano, violin and cello, guitar and harp, wind instrument, vocal music and vocal music education. The standard course (M.A.) is designed for master of arts, and doctoral research can be chosen between universities. The minimum enrollment age of registered students depends on the department, generally 17 years old. There is no academic requirement, but students majoring in instrumental music can relax to 15 years old if they have talent and foundation. Those who study music education must be students at school. If you apply for vocal or instrumental music, you don't have to be a student, but you must go to Vienna for an interview.
5. Mozart National Conservatory of Music in Salzburg, Austria
Founded in 184 1, the course covers more than 30 kinds of music, performance, art, musical instrument performance, pre-school physical training and social science. The college has gathered more than 1700 students from all over the world and has more than 400 teachers. Preparatory course: piano, violin, viola, cello, guitar, harp, flute, recording, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, bass, percussion instruments and vocal music. Undergraduate course: conducting, composition and music theory, instrumental music (bass, bassoon, clarinet, double bass, flute, guitar, harp, harpsichord, horn, oboe, organ, percussion instrument, piano, piano accompaniment, chamber music, recording, trombone, trumpet, viola, violin and cello). Teacher training: art education, instrumental music teaching, music education, costume and craft design, handicraft education, musical, drama, stage design, musicology, music education (in Salzburg), music education (in Innsbruck), music and dance education (in Orff campus), arts and crafts education. Postgraduates: conducting, composing, keyboard instruments, strings, percussion, vocal music, German folk songs, religious dramas and musicals, Ph.D.: philosophy or natural sciences. Admission requirements: the minimum admission age for full-time students is 17 years old, and for instrumental music majors, 15 years old. All courses are taught in German, and students who can't speak German must pass relevant language tests before the end of the second semester. Tuition: Non-EU students: 726.72 euros per semester (including course fees and preparatory study fees). Postgraduate degree: the tuition fee is 300 euros per semester.
6. Anton brukner University of Music Performance and Dance Arts.
Founded in Linz, Austria, 1799, State University, Department I, composition keyboard, music theory and conductor, bowstring music, stringed instruments, wind and percussion, music teacher, dance, vocal and opera performance, drama performance and jazz music. Degrees that can be awarded: Bachelor's/Master's/Artist's Diploma recognized in China and the world. The minimum age for undergraduate admission depends on the major, generally 17 years old or above. There is no academic requirement, but they must have talent and a certain professional foundation, and pass the entrance examination including written music theory and professional performance. Applicants for master's degree in any major must hold a bachelor's degree recognized by the European Union and pass a rigorous professional examination. 17 years old or older, the upper limit of undergraduate registration is 23 years old for women and 24 years old for men.
⒎ Excerpt from the article: Talking about Hanover Conservatory of Music in Germany
Why is Hanover Conservatory of Music so awesome?
I just came to Germany and didn't know there was a conservatory in Hanover. Later, in 2000, La Xiaoti's sister of Shanghai Conservatory of Music told me that Hanover Conservatory of Music had a world-class violin competition called joseph joachim, whose name was unknown from the beginning. Later, I heard that China's piano prince Di Yun came to Hanover Conservatory of Music for further study. I'm confused. Why did Di Yun choose Hanover? Are there no conservatories in America, such as Julia and Berkeley? Not only Di Yun, but also Di Yun's teacher elder sister Chen Sa transferred from the Royal Conservatory of Music to Hanover. China people have also studied here, such as Shen Wenyu, a 65,438+05-year-old piano genius, Yan Junjie and Chen Shuwei, a piano prodigy in Taiwan Province and so on. I asked my friends in Taiwan Province Province with this question. He told me that Hanover Conservatory of Music is as famous in Europe and America as Harvard University in the world. Why Harvard, but not Oxford? Because in my mind, Oxford is not as thick and rigorous as Harvard. Perhaps it is because people in Taiwan Province Province worship beauty. ) Its keyboard major can be said to be unparalleled in the world, and there are four or five world-famous masters in piano major, such as Mr. arie vardi from Di Yun and Mr. Karl- from Shen Wenyu. Merlin, Yan Junjie's teacher Vladimir Kranev, etc. Many of them are judges of world-famous piano competitions such as Lao Chai and Lah. Hanover's accordion, string and wind music all enjoy world reputation. Relatively speaking, its vocal music, dance and other drama classes are not very good. By the way, Yang Liqing, president of China Shanghai Conservatory of Music, is piano master and a doctor of composition from Hanover Conservatory of Music. It is precisely because Hanover Conservatory of Music has many masters and talented people. For example, among the top six finalists in this year's Chopin competition, Hanover occupied three places, among which the second and third place were a pair of Korean brothers (the son of a modern enterprise president) and the sixth place was a girl from Hong Kong. For example, Shen Wenyu participated in the Elizabeth Competition, and the top three were won by Hanover Conservatory of Music. The Elizabeth International Piano Competition is one of the most difficult piano competitions in the world, because there is no age limit, and all contestants are treated equally. The first is a piano professor in Hanover, the second is Shen Wenyu, and the third is a Korean. It is said that Koreans were deeply wronged by being demoted to Shen Wenyu, and finally refused to take the stage to receive the prize. In international competitions, it often happens that prizes are won by Hanover Conservatory of Music, and people here have long been used to it.
Hanover Conservatory of Music is small, with only 1 0,000 students. If you think of the German education system, students have no study term, and there are many people who haven't graduated after five years. Therefore, according to the scale of China, it should be a school with less than 1 1,000 students. I'm not sure about the number of professors. It is composed of nearly 30 majors, big and small, regardless of keyboard, string and other departments. There is no so-called secondary college in China. Its degree system is like this: students enter school for the first time, take the final exam three years later, hand in a paper of about 50 pages at the same time, and then get Diplom(MA (MA) (that is, Musik Erziehung in German, which should be called music education when translated into Chinese). If you want to continue studying (provided that you have a certain musical talent), you must pass the exam again and get a diploma (1-2 years later, Ka (Ka means Kuenstlich Ausbildung, which means art training and further study). For stage performance majors, such as all instrumental music, the highest title is Diplo (solo), which is the title of performer. In Chinese, Diplom translated into a master's degree is actually wrong. According to my understanding, it should be certified as "equivalent to bachelor, master and doctor". The school also has what we usually call a juvenile class, which recruits all musical talents like Shen Wenyu.
There are more than 40 conservatories (including private ones) in Germany, among which Berlin University of the Arts, Munich Conservatory of Music and Cologne Conservatory of Music are famous. Among them, Cologne's strings are also world famous. The German Conservatory of Music is also mixed. For example, Bremen and Trosingen. Among them, Bremen is called a garbage shelter by people in Taiwan Province Province, and almost half of them are Asians, mostly Korean students, and there are also many people in China in recent years. Most of them didn't transfer to Bremen until they hit a wall in other conservatories.
German conservatory of music VS American conservatory of music
When I was still in China, I heard the names of the Juilliard Conservatory of Music, cortese Conservatory of Music, Berkeley Conservatory of Music and other conservatories in the United States, or Russian conservatories such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. German schools are not very famous in China. I didn't know until I arrived in Europe that the German school (or the European school) and the Russian school are recognized as the two major schools in the music industry, and there is no American school at all. It is true that many famous performers who are active on the world stage are from the United States, but most of them became famous in Europe (Russia also belongs to the European category) and then developed in the United States. As the most developed industrial country in the world, the United States also provides more stage and business opportunities for performers. European and American music circles call it "European production, American packaging" phenomenon (in fact, in recent years, Asia has also carried out export activities for world classical music circles).
Music higher education in America is very different from that in Germany. As far as musical instrument performance is concerned, in a sense, the United States pays more attention to theory, while Germany pays more attention to performance technology. Taiwan Province people know this best. Because of the special historical relationship between Taiwan Province Province and the United States, most Taiwan Province musicians are made in the United States, and they all have doctorates. In Germany, as mentioned above, the highest degree in performing arts is Diplom(Solo), which is the so-called title of performer. This Diplom is usually translated into a master's degree, and so is Taiwan Province Province. Because Taiwan Province Province has not signed a cultural agreement with German for mutual recognition of academic qualifications, Diplom(Solo) is only treated as a master's degree in Taiwan Province Province. Moreover, Taiwan Province Province only recognizes the diplomas of four German conservatories of music, namely: Berlin University of the Arts, Hanover, Cologne and Munich Conservatory of Music. Therefore, many students from Taiwan Province Province go to the United States to study for doctors after getting their degrees in Germany!
Generally speaking, for students studying instrumental performance in Hanover Conservatory of Music, only after passing the initial diploma (ME) degree will they write a paper with dozens of pages. After that, you don't have to write any more articles, whether it's diploma or the last Diplom(Solo). But its graduation exam is still quite difficult. For example, in the KA exam, in addition to an hour of Kammermusik (chamber music), there will be a solo concert for nearly one and a half hours. For Solo, it is even more difficult. Large bands should perform at least three times, plus a solo concert. Therefore, it is common to study alone for four or five years, because cooperation with big bands requires opportunities. Relatively speaking, in the United States, no matter what major, you have to have a thesis in the end, and of course you will get a doctorate in the end. A short story may well illustrate the entrance examination threshold of Hanover Conservatory of Music and Juilliard Conservatory of Music: A few years ago (about 2003), a second-year piano candidate from Juilliard Conservatory of Music in the United States applied for Hanover Conservatory of Music. He was German and Hanover, but in the end he fell into Sun Shan. This is what the lucky China girl mentioned above told me.