OFFERED FALL 2026
Discover a rich and often overlooked repertoire that deserves a place on the international concert stage.
This course invites singers and pianists to explore the world of Danish art song through language, history, poetry, and performance. Using the groundbreaking anthology Danish Diction in Art Song, students will gain practical tools for performing in Danish while deepening their understanding of the cultural and artistic contexts that shaped this repertoire.
Course Levels: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Associate Professor Eva Hess Thaysen and guest faculty
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
What does it really mean to listen?
This interdisciplinary course explores hearing not simply as a biological process, but as a creative and artistic practice. Combining music, acoustics, technology, and sound art, students will investigate how the ear works, how we perceive space and timbre, and how listening shapes our musical experience.
Course Levels: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Associate Professor Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
This course explores the rich traditions of improvisation in Western music before 1600, uncovering practices that shaped musical culture long before the emergence of the modern concert tradition. Focusing particularly on early Italian musical and philosophical traditions, students will investigate how improvisation functioned as a tool for creativity, communication, learning, and performance.
Course Levels : Undergraduate
Faculty : Dr Caroline Gill
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
In this thought-provoking course, students will explore the rapidly evolving world of Music and AI through artistic, cultural, and musicological perspectives. From generative music systems and AI-created artists to streaming algorithms, recommendation engines, copyright disputes, and questions of authenticity, the course examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the way music is created, shared, and experienced.
Course Level: Undergraduate
Faculty: Dr Nicholas Moroz
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
Transform your artistic superpowers - communication, critical thinking, empathy, collaboration, and perseverance, to name a few – and begin your development as a future cultural leader.
Study Levels: Graduate
Faculty: Dr Joyce Griggs and Dr Diana Salazar
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OFFERED FALL 2026
Creating a compelling and memorable musical theatre song requires writers to master a breadth of skills: music theory, harmonic and melodic techniques, vocal composition, dramaturgy and playwriting. Students will analyze songs from the Broadway canon and write music and lyrics for two original songs of their own that are active and actable, and satisfying both musically and dramatically.
Study Levels: Undergraduate
Faculty: Andrew Gerle
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
Transform your artistic superpowers - communication, critical thinking, empathy, collaboration, and perseverance, to name a few – and begin your development as a future cultural leader.
Study Levels: Graduate
Faculty: Dr Joyce Griggs and Dr Diana Salazar
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OFFERED FALL 2026
Inspired by the symbolic framework of the five elements: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Metal, this international course series brings together students from across the Global Conservatoire network to explore music, sustainability, and intercultural collaboration.
In Part I, students investigate how composers have represented the elements through musical language, symbolism, and artistic expression, while collaboratively exploring repertoire for an international performance project. In Part II, these ideas come to life through rehearsals, creative collaboration, and a culminating concert in Vienna.
Course Level : Postgraduate
Faculty: Elisabeth Reisinger
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
Inspired by the symbolic framework of the five elements: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Metal, this international course series brings together students from across the Global Conservatoire network to explore music, sustainability, and intercultural collaboration.
In Part I, students investigate how composers have represented the elements through musical language, symbolism, and artistic expression, while collaboratively exploring repertoire for an international performance project. In Part II, these ideas come to life through rehearsals, creative collaboration, and a culminating concert in Vienna.
Course Level : Postgraduate
Faculty: Heinz-Peter Linshalm, Petra Stump-Linshalm
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OFFERED SPRING 2027
Students will engage with theoretical models of participation, discuss contemporary case studies, explore key texts such as François Matarasso's A Restless Art, and develop their own participatory arts initiatives. The course combines critical reflection with practical project design and encourages collaboration across institutions and cultural contexts.
Course Level: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty: Prof. Dr. Axel Petri-Preis
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OFFERED FALL 2026
Texture is one of the most important elements of music, but also one of the least understood ones. In the twentieth century, the term became widely used in musicians’ discourse, yet even today, a formal understanding of musical texture is lacking. During the course, we will explore texture as a perceptual phenomenon.
Course level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Faculty: Amit Gur
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OFFERED IN SPRING 2027
This course explores the rapidly developing field of Historically Informed Performance Practice for Nineteenth-century Repertoire. Focusing on Brahms, Beethoven, and their contemporaries, students investigate how historical documents, early recordings, instruments, and historical performing traditions can offer fresh perspectives on familiar works.
Course level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Faculty: Johannes Leertouwer
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