Application WS 2026/27

• Please record the video from a fixed perspective.
• The camera must not move. It is important that you are clearly recognisable.
• You can use both a smartphone and a professional camera for recording.
• Please make sure the sound is good.
• You are welcome to record with a microphone.
• At the beginning of the video, briefly introduce yourself and state your programme while looking into the camera.
• Please speak German.
• The respective pieces should be recorded unedited in one take. The pieces may not be edited.
• Each piece may be recorded individually, but you may cut between the individual pieces and the introduction.
• Please combine videos from different pieces into one video.
• Image and sound must be recorded simultaneously; the use of a separate audio recording device is permitted.
• The recordings must not be older than one year.
• The videos can be recorded with or without piano accompaniment
• Resolution: SD (standard definition, 720x576) or HD (high definition, 1920x1080)
• File format: mp4
• Duration of the video: maximum 10 minutes
• The video file will only be uploaded to your applicant portal.
• Please name the file: Surname, first name, applicant number
• It is not possible to submit the video file by e-mail!

Requirement for: Harp, piano chamber music

• for all degree programmes 1 - 2 works, movements or excerpts of your choice, duration 5 - 7 minutes

Requirement for: Wind chamber music, bassoon, horn, clarinet, oboe, trombone, flute, trumpet, tuba. Please note the specific requirements for trumpet, flute, horn and percussion

•  Duration of the video 5 - 7 minutes
•  At least 2 pieces, movements or excerpts in different styles. Both slow and fast parts of the programme should be included.
•  Excerpts can be played, e.g. 1st movement of a concerto from the beginning to the recapitulation and a cadenza, if there is one.
• The movements are played from the beginning.
• If a time indication is given, the performance is sensibly cancelled after the desired duration has been reached.

Trumpet

Examples for the main work:

•  Joseph Haydn 1st movement complete with cadenza
•  or 1st movement J.N. Hummel
•  or 1st movement H. Tomasi with cadenza
•  or 1st movement A. Jolivet up to figure 19
•  or 1st movement V. Peskin with cadenza
•  Another piece from a different period of your choice

Transverse flute

• A Telemann fantasy of your choice, without the last movement. A further piece (excerpts are possible) from another period of your choice.

Horn

• A first movement up to the recapitulation from the following horn concertos by Mozart KV 417, KV 447 or KV 495.
• or KV 495. A further piece (excerpts are possible) from another period of your choice.

Percussio

• 1 piece for snare drum, 1 piece for timpani, 1 piece for marimba with 4 mallets

Requirement for: Ensemble chamber music, double bass, viola, violin, violoncello, contemporary music

• Duration of the video max. 10 minutes
• At least 2 pieces, movements or movement excerpts from different epochs. There should be one slow and one fast piece.

Requirements for: Opera, master's programme only

• (1) First stage of the examination: Video application (max. 500 MB)
• Spoken text in German (approx. 1 minute): 
  Personal introduction, announcement of the arias and brief summary of their content
• 2 arias, one of which must be in German

Requirement for: Singing, Master's programme only

•  Duration of the video max. 10 minutes
•  1 aria and 1 song of your choice

Teaching and lecture period
06.10.2025 – 14.02.2026

Christmas break
24.12.2025 – 06.01.2026

Registration deadline for entrance examinations
01.11.2025 (Subject to change without notice)

Re-registration
20.01.2026 – 29.01.2026

Entrance examinations
14.02.2026 – 20.02.2026 (Subject to change without notice)
12.01. – 13.01.2026 Künstlerisches Lehramt an Gymnasien (Schulmusik)

Except for:

• Soloist exam piano 14 February 2026, possibly also 15 February 2026
• Master's degree piano, possibly also on 15 February 2026
• Choir conducting 28 January 2026 from 12 noon 
• School music 12 January 2026 and 13 January 2026
• Music education 13 January 2026
• Non-A-level examination 26 January 2026

Teaching and lecture period
07.04.2026 – 25.07.2026

Application deadline for the following courses:

Music informatics and musicology
Registration by 15 June of the year
Start of studies in the winter semester
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Music journalism for radio, TV and Internet
Registration see Institute for Music Journalism 
Start of studies in the winter semester
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MusicTheatre Direction
Registration until 1 April of the year
Start of studies in the winter semester
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Registration deadline for entrance examinations
01.03.2026 – 01.04.2026 

Re-registration
16.06.2026 – 25.06.2026

Entrance examinations
06.06.2026 – 12.06.2026 (Subject to change without notice)

Teaching and lecture period
05.10.2026 – 13.02.2027

Christmas break
24.12.2026 – 06.01.2027

Application deadline for the following courses:

Music informatics and musicology
Registration by 15 June of the year
Start of studies in the winter semester
=>> Further Informationen

Music journalism for radio, TV and Internet
Registration see Institute for Music Journalism 
Start of studies in the winter semester
=>> Further Informationen

MusicTheatre Direction
Registration until 1 April of the year
Start of studies in the winter semester
=>> Further Informationen