Accompaniment

Master’s programme Instrumental Accompaniment

ZkF lecturer: Denise Benda

The master’s programme Instrumental Accompaniment is aimed at pianists who wish to pursue a career of an instrumental accompanist (correpetiteur) and/or chamber musician playing duo repertoire with another instrument. Students independently form one or several duos with students from other study programmes of the university, giving rise to a wide range of repertoire and performing opportunities. The aim of the programme is to provide instrumental, artistic and practical training up to the highest level and to acquire competencies to enable graduates to enter professional practice as instrumental accompanists and chamber musicians in the best possible way.

Within the framework of the central artistic subject (ZkF), students receive a professional orientation. They learn to respond to the special (technical and aesthetic) characteristics of the instruments to be accompanied and acquire comprehensive knowledge of how to create musical content, rhythmic structures and harmonic sequences in a tonally balanced way. Interactive chamber music making as well as independent and instructive rehearsal work with instrumentalists are practiced. In the ZkF lessons, a comprehensive, wide-ranging and representative chamber music repertoire (duo with piano) as well as instrumental concertos of all stylistic epochs are developed. The repertoire is coordinated with the pieces played in the various instrumental classes during the Praktikum Klassenkorrepetition. This practicum is one of the most important courses in the programme, as it allows students to gain correpetition practice directly in the classroom of the various instrumental classes.

Collaboration and networking with students and faculty in the string or wind instrument departments is an essential part of the program and provides opportunities for correpetition students to accompany in class recitals, examinations, practice auditions, selections, competitions, and master classes. Other courses such as score playing, playing to a conductor, opera and song correpetition broaden the scope of this master's programme. Various chamber music projects complement the diverse training and also contribute to the students' further podium experience, with the ZkF always acting as an interface between the various disciplines. In addition to the compulsory courses, the student can choose personal focal points from a range of elective courses and acquire further qualifications with regard to the career goals they are pursuing.
 

Curriculum MA Instrumental Accompaniment
Syllabus MA Instrumental Accompaniment (in German)

Syllabus CoP Instrumental Accompaniment