B.A. Con­cert Per­for­mance - Kron­berg Aca­de­my

The cour­se is de­si­gned to pre­pa­re high­ly ta­len­ted mu­si­ci­ans who are al­rea­dy ac­tive in con­cert life for an in­ter­na­tio­nal ca­re­er as a solo ar­tist for the vio­lin, vio­la or cel­lo. The fle­xi­bi­li­ty of the cour­se is tailo­red to the con­cert ac­tivi­ties of the stu­dents and is the­re­fo­re uni­que in­ter­na­tio­nal­ly. The pre­do­mi­nant­ly in­tui­ti­ve, high­ly ta­len­ted stu­dents learn to re­flect on them­sel­ves in the prac­ticing pro­cess and to ap­proach tech­ni­cal and mu­si­cal ques­ti­ons ana­ly­ti­cal­ly in or­der to gain in­crea­sing in­de­pen­dence in the de­ve­lop­ment of a work. In this way, in­ter­pre­ta­ti­ve foun­da­ti­ons are ex­pan­ded and con­so­li­da­ted and tech­ni­cal skills are fur­ther de­ve­lo­ped in or­der to crea­te the ba­sis for an in­di­vi­du­al ar­tis­tic state­ment. The aim is to achie­ve an in­ter­pre­ta­ti­ve, crea­ti­ve and in­di­vi­du­al form of ex­pres­si­on ba­sed on a high le­vel of un­der­stan­ding of the theo­re­ti­cal, his­to­ri­cal and cul­tu­ral as­pec­ts of mu­sic.

Suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of the de­gree pro­gram qua­li­fies stu­dents for all re­le­vant ac­tivi­ties as a mu­si­cal lea­der in the in­stru­men­tal-ar­tis­tic field, with spe­cial em­pha­sis on tem­pora­ry solo ac­tivi­ties on the vio­lin, vio­la and cel­lo.

The pre­re­qui­si­te for ad­mis­si­on to the Ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram Con­cert Per­for­mance - Kron­berg Aca­de­my is pro­of of a hig­her edu­ca­ti­on ent­ran­ce qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on (Ab­itur) in ac­cordance with § 54 para. 2 of the Hes­si­an Hig­her Edu­ca­ti­on Act of 14.12.2009 in the ver­si­on of 21 De­cem­ber 2010. A mis­sing hig­her edu­ca­ti­on ent­ran­ce qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on can be re­pla­ced by an out­stan­ding ar­tis­tic ap­ti­tu­de (at least 19 out of a pos­si­ble 25 points in the ap­ti­tu­de test) in ac­cordance with § 54 para. 4 sen­tence 3 HHG.

Suf­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of Ger­man or Eng­lish is re­qui­red for ad­mis­si­on to the cour­se (see pro­of of lan­guage skills un­der ap­p­li­ca­ti­on). Ad­mis­si­on re­qui­res the suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of an ap­ti­tu­de test.

Au­dio­vi­su­al files (vi­deo links) with at least two works or mo­ve­ments of dif­fe­rent cha­rac­ter must be sub­mit­ted.

Ex­ami­na­ti­ons must be ta­ken in the main in­stru­men­tal sub­ject and in the com­pul­so­ry sub­jec­ts of mu­sic theo­ry, au­ral skills and pia­no.

The main sub­ject ex­ami­na­ti­on con­sists of a pre­sen­ta­ti­on in the main ar­tis­tic sub­ject (du­ra­ti­on: 30 - 45 mi­nu­tes). Your pro­gram should in­clu­de the fol­lo­wing and last a to­tal of ap­prox. 45 mi­nu­tes:

• an etu­de
• two mo­ve­ments of an un­ac­com­pa­nied work by J.S. Bach
• one mo­ve­ment of a so­na­ta from the late 18th, 19th or 20th cen­tu­ry*
• one mo­ve­ment of a con­cer­to from the late 18th, 19th or 20th cen­tu­ry*
• a cha­rac­ter pie­ce
• a work by a com­po­ser born in the last 70 ye­ars

With re­gard to the selec­ted mo­ve­ments of the Bach work, the so­na­ta and the con­cer­to, plea­se in­di­ca­te whe­ther the com­ple­te work is known and can be per­for­med or not.

* The selec­ted so­na­ta and con­cer­to should be from dif­fe­rent sty­listic pe­ri­ods.

Re­mark:

• With the ex­cep­ti­on of the so­na­ta and the con­tem­pora­ry work, all pie­ces should be play­ed from me­mo­ry.
• It is pos­si­ble that only a selec­tion of the pre­pa­red pie­ces will be heard du­ring the ap­ti­tu­de test.
• A pia­nist will be avail­ab­le, alt­hough it is high­ly re­com­men­ded that you bring your own ac­com­pa­nist.
• The ex­ami­na­ti­on board con­sists of two re­p­re­sen­ta­ti­ves each from Kron­berg Aca­de­my and the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts.

The selec­tion and or­der of per­for­mance of in­di­vi­du­al pie­ces and mo­ve­ments from the pre­pa­red pro­gram will be de­ter­mi­ned by the ex­ami­na­ti­on board. The dates for the main sub­ject ex­ami­na­ti­ons are ar­ran­ged in­di­vi­dual­ly.

In a writ­ten test las­ting ap­pro­xi­mate­ly 60 mi­nu­tes, the ap­p­li­cant must de­mons­tra­te the abi­li­ty to re­co­gni­ze ele­men­ta­ry rhyth­mic, me­lo­dic, har­mo­nic, to­nal and for­mal re­la­ti­ons­hips by lis­ten­ing.

The fol­lo­wing tasks are to be com­ple­ted in a writ­ten ex­ami­na­ti­on (du­ra­ti­on ap­prox. 90 mi­nu­tes):

• De­ter­mi­ning and forming in­ter­vals and sca­les (in­clu­ding church sca­les)
• De­ter­mi­ning and forming chords and chord pro­gres­si­ons
• Ar­ran­ge­ment of a gi­ven me­lo­dy in two-, three- or four-part set­tings
• Com­men­ting on a gi­ven ex­cerpt from a score, ta­king into ac­count in­stru­men­ta­ti­on, tim­bre, sty­listic and his­to­ri­cal clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on, form, com­po­si­tio­nal tech­ni­que and cha­rac­ter.

In the com­pul­so­ry sub­ject pia­no, two pie­ces from dif­fe­rent sty­listic pe­ri­ods are to be per­for­med, e.g. in­ven­ti­ons by Bach, so­na­ti­nas by Cle­men­ti op. 36 (to be pre­pa­red in ad­van­ce). The ex­ami­na­ti­on lasts about ten mi­nu­tes.

The Stu­dy and Ex­ami­na­ti­on Re­gu­la­ti­ons (SPO) set out the frame­work con­di­ti­ons and re­gu­la­ti­ons for your stu­dies. They ap­p­ly tog­e­ther with the Ge­ne­ral Re­gu­la­ti­ons (for Ba­che­lor's and Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram­mes) or the SPoL (for tea­cher trai­ning de­gree pro­gram­mes). All ver­si­ons of the SPO for your de­gree pro­gram­me (in­clu­ding ear­lier ver­si­ons for stu­dents of pre­vious aca­de­mic ye­ars) can be found at Ex­ami­na­ti­ons.