Percussion
Classical Percussion tuition builds on a solid tradition and on a thorough understanding of European and American orchestra performance practice as well as traditional music from around the world.
You will meet many different traditions, giving you the opportunity to develop your personal creativity and finding your own way among the many avenues open to the modern percussionist.
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Tuition content
Tuition includes one on one and class tuition, frequent master classes featuring international artists and other special projects, plus participation in the RAMA Percussion Ensemble. In addition, you may participate in joint projects with other Academy orchestra music students and in collaboration projects with professional symphony orchestras and ensembles.
Following an audition, you may be selected for soloist assignments with professional symphony orchestras and chamber orchestras. You will also get the opportunity to attend auditions at other institutions and locations than the Academy, thereby receiving training on instruments that you do not play on a regular basis.
On the soloist programme, you may specialise in the marimba and in theatre percussion.
Freedom of choice
At the Academy, we focus on artistic citizenship and wish to bring artistic processes into play in our surroundings. Electives are offered for this purpose as part of all Bachelor and Master programmes. Other electives support the interdisciplinary collaboration, pedagogical work or allow for specialization within contemporary music and chamber music, to name a few.
Teachers
The leader of the percussion department, Associate Professor Henrik Knarborg, works with research projects in addition to tuition and is a master class teacher in international demand. Henrik is also a regular member of the Aarhus Sinfonietta. For more information, click the photo links to the right.
Other teachers are: Nikolai Petersen (Solo timpanist, Aarhus Symphony), Simon W. Sigfusson (Aalborg Symphony) og Per Holm Dahl (Aarhus Music School) .
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The programme
The bachelor degree (BMus Orchestral Music) gives you the knowledge, skills, and qualifications necessary to become an orchestra musician, music teacher, and enterprising music industry player. The BMus programme is concluded with a bachelor project.
The subjects are:
- Main study area: Subjects where you perform, as well as subjects that support this
- Pedagogics: Subjects where you communicate and teach, as well as subjects that support this
- General studies: Elementary music theory subjects
- Entrepreneurial Studies: Subjects and projects that give you experience as an entrepreneur and similar
- Electives: Specialization within your preferred field
Solo tuition is tailored to the individual student’s needs and level.
After completing the bachelor’s programme, students may apply for admission to the master’s programme at the Academy as an orchestral musician. However, it is also possible to apply for the master’s programmes in Aural Skills or Choral Conducting. Please note that these master’s programmes do not include an instrumental principal study subject.
Curricula
The BMus, MMus, and soloist programmes are described in detail in their respective curricula. You can find the relevant curriculum in the general overview of classical music curricula here.