The Composition degree program will prepare its graduate for a career as a professional composer. What does it offer?
The Composition study program with its specialization in Scenic and Film music composition is taught at the Composition, Conducting and Opera Directing Department. This multidisciplinary department teaches future composers not only the “craft” itself but also the close cooperation with multimedia creators, conductors, choral directors, opera directors, and audio engineers. Students learn not only to compose but also to think about music-making in a modern way.
What does JAMU provide for the students of Composition?
- A university full of top performers
- Two state-of-the-art studios for electroacoustic music production
- Fully equipped theatre
- Chamber Hall
- Interactive technology
- Multi-channel audio systems
- Plenty of professional software and hardware
- Professional recording studio
- Modular synthesizer in classroom 113
- For fieldwork, JAMU offers a well-equipped rental room with microphones, field recorders, video cameras, scanners and other tools.
What can students use in their lessons?
The Faculty of Music JAMU offers state-of-the-art equipment that is suitable for both demonstrative teaching and experimentation. These include the conversion of visual, haptic, and other parameters into sound, the realization of graphic scores, research into micro-interval tuning, interactive electronic systems, the use of multi-channel reproduction or compositional integration of ambient sound recordings (field recording, etc.), including its own theatre. The students will also collaborate with the National Theatre Brno and other institutions (including foreign ones, such as the Institute of Sonology in Den Haag) and have the opportunity to practice in our own recording studios.
Where will the graduates of Composition at the Faculty of Music JAMU find employment?
- as composers of classical music, electroacoustic music or incidental and film music;
- as music directors for music recording in radio, television, etc.;
- as music dramaturges of theatres of all types and cultural institutions, art ensembles, art agencies, festivals, etc.;
- as a teacher at all levels of music education (primary art school, conservatory, university) and in various subjects (composition, composition theory, music theory, music history, etc.).
What to prepare for the entrance examination?
The applicant must be prepared to submit scores of several different compositions for different chamber instrumental, vocal and mixed ensembles. They will have to demonstrate their knowledge of music-theoretical disciplines and instrumentation at the level of a secondary school graduate. In the case of the Composition of Scenic and Film Music specialization, they must also demonstrate knowledge of harmony and counterpoint.
The applicant is expected to have knowledge of various ways of creating electronic sound, working with DAWs, using various programs for creating music or making open source software or hardware musical instruments.
In the case of the Composition and Composition of Scenic and Film Music specializations, the ability to play the piano at the level of a graduate of a primary art school is expected.
| Field of study specification | |
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| Code | KOMSF |
| Type | Non-follow-up Master’s study programme |
| Degree | MgA. |
| Length of studies | 5 Years |
| Field of study guaranteed by | Faculty Of Music |
| Accreditation | |
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M0215A310004 KompM:M5 Composition Accredited until 07. 03. 2025 |
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| Guarantor | |
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| doc. Mgr. Ing. MgA. Dan Dlouhý, Ph.D. | |