1. Bern University of Applied Sciences
  2. Bern Academy of the Arts
  3. Music
  4. Studies
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Studies

An overview of the study areas and interdisciplinary programmes at HKB Music.

Study Ereas

A wide range of BA and MA programmes across seven disciplines offer diverse and, above all, highly personalised opportunities, right through to doctoral level.

Registration deadline autumn semester 2026: Monday, March 16, 2026

Jazz and Contemporary Music

Discover and develop your own voice as a musician, artist or mediator at the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB. The Jazz and Contemporary Music Department offers you four study programs.

Music and Movement

Develop your creativity and creative power as a musician, dancer and educator at the Bern University of the Arts HKB. The area of Music and Movement – Eurythmics has three courses on offer for you.

Classical Music

In Classical Music we offer individualized music education with great freedom of choice, while both technically and artistically at the highest level.

Music Pedagogy

We offer a stylistically broad and artistically rich education programme for future music teachers.

Composition

To us, composition means shaping sounds, music and situations. With specialisations in Creative Practice and Contemporary Jazz, we offer a flexible and open concept for individual needs.

Sound Arts

Here we delve into electronic music, sound art and new media and accompany you as you work on your own artistic projects.

Opera

We work individually and practically with voice, singing, body, movement, stage, light and more. In addition, we accompany you in the realization of your own projects and in our opera productions.

Interdisciplinary courses

With Careers Skills, Research and Music in Context, we respond to current musical and social issues across all degree programmes.

Music in Context

Even the best art can have no impact if it does not find the right audience. This is why the HKB Music Division offers with its cluster Music in Context a specialization in artistic Musikvermittlung.

Career Skills HKB Music

How, where, for whom and with what intention do I bring my music into the world? Music as a profession requires practical, sustainable and contemporary approaches. These skills are at the heart of Career...