ECMCT Partner Institutions
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
The Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) is the only official centre of public initiative which offers in Catalonia music's superior degree and that gives an equivalent to university graduate's title. It is a centre which aims to reflect the diversity of the musical panorama in Catalonia, understanding music not only as a professional phenomenon but also as having a very important social dimension and function. Thus, our surrounding social reality, its demands and the professional options that it offers to musicians are other aspects to bear in mind in the development of a project at the service of the future music professionals and also of the whole of Catalan society.
The ESMUC is also the only musical centre in our country that owns a department and a degree in Sonology and that specializes in technology as applied to music. ESMUC is also in close permanent collaboration with the Music Technology Group of the University Pompeu Fabra, and with the Phonos Foundation, the first electronic music studio created in Spain. ESMUC's facilities and leadership in this kind of studies in our country made ESMUC the meeting place of the ICMC in 2005.
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Tallinn
The Estonian Academy of Music was established in 1919 during the first year of the Estonian Republic. Music has always played an important role in the history of the Estonian nation. The National Awakening, an event that created a national state, and the second independence were almost music events - a series of song festivals. A lot of prominent graduates are listed in the yearbooks of the Estonian Academy of Music like Arvo Pärt, Eri Klas, Tõnu Kaljuste and Erkki-Sven Tüür.
Today the Academy teaches musicians and composers but also theatre, arts management, music science, music pedagogy and school music amongst several other important specialties. Many wide scale national and international projects as well as active cooperation with the best institutions all over the world ensure the students modern higher education with high quality.
Muzyka Centrum Art Society Krakow
Muzyka Centrum Art Society Krakow is an association of performers of contemporary music. It organizes concerts in which all the styles and achievements of contemporary music are represented. Muzyka Centrum was established in June 1977. It comprises 25 leading soloists and instrumentalists. Till the end of 2006 it had organized around 500 concerts presenting around 300 Polish and world premiere performances. Since 1991 it has been a member of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music.
Muzyka Centrum has been organizing international festivals and educational projects: Audio Art Festival | Bridges European Modern Orchestra | International Workshops for New Music | Polish Sound Art in China | European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies.
Sibelius Academy
The Sibelius Academy is Finland's national university of music, which celebrates its 125th anniversary as an institution in 2007. The Centre for Music & Technology grew out of earlier activities in computer music during the 1990's and became a fully-fledged department which offers Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Technology. It teaches a broad palette of music technology subjects, ranging from recording to electroacoustic composition, and from media to musical performance with technologies. CM&T has given hundreds of concerts and performances, since the time when a special-purpose hall for electronic music was established in 1991.
Technische Universität Berlin
TU Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin looks back over a long and distinguished tradition of teaching and research. In 1799 its most important predecessor, the Building Academy, was founded. Eighty years later, the fusion of the Building Academy and the Vocational Academy led to the founding of the Royal Technical College of Berlin. In 1946 the university was re-established under the name of Technische Universität Berlin, or TU Berlin. In 2001, enrollment at TU Berlin was 30,000. More than 36 percent of the students were women and 20 percent were foreign citizens. The students were instructed by 400 professors and an academic staff of 1,500. TU Berlin employs a total of 2,500 people in administration, workshops and laboratories, making it the largest technical university in Germany. The eight Faculties of the university offer 50 courses of study from the fields of engineering and natural sciences, economics and business, planning sciences, humanities and the social sciences.
The university budget for 2000 was 333 million euros, of which approximately 58 million euros came from external funding. The main campus of TU Berlin is located near the Zoo station and the well-known thoroughfare, Kurfürstendamm. A number of other university buildings can be found near the central location in the districts of Tiergarten and Charlottenburg, as well as in Wedding to the north and Dahlem in southern Berlin. TU Berlin takes up a total area of 600,000m2.
Musikhochschule "Hanns Eisler"
The Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin, founded in 1950 under the name German Academy of Music, is situated in the historical centre of Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt, directly behind the Konzerthaus Berlin. The New Marstall, with its prominent address on the Schloßplatz close to Museum Island, was opened as a further location in April 2005. Presided over by its director, Christhard Gössling, principal trombone with the Berlin Philharmonic, this well-respected institution boasts a symphony orchestra, a chamber orchestra, a chorus, a studio orchestra, a symphonic wind orchestra, the Eisler Brass ensemble, the ECHO New Music Ensemble, numerous chamber music formations and a big band. In July 2005, in cooperation with the University of the Arts, the Jazz Institute Berlin was founded, guaranteeing innovative training of international quality.
Each year, over 400 events are presented - concerts, opera productions, class recitals and exam concerts. Close relationships exist with the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation. The Schinkel building on Gendarmenmarkt hosts orchestral, choral-orchestral and teachers' concerts. The Academy chamber orchestra is a regular guest in the Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal. Academy teachers and members of the Berlin Philharmonic participate in these concerts as soloists and conductors. Opera productions take place in conjunction with the three Berlin opera houses. The numerous performing activities are regularly supplemented by guest concerts, masterclasses and seminars given by well-known performers and academic experts.
Universität der Künste Berlin
In an eventful history spanning more than 300 years, the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) has not only grown into one of Europe's leading universities but also to one of its most varied in terms of the art courses it offers. In the nineties, the University as an institute of the arts and sciences offering over thirty art and science-related courses under one roof took advantage of the transformation of society, the challenges of the new media and changes in the education system in order to bring about a fundamental reorientation. Reorganised into four Colleges - Fine Arts; Architecture, Media and Design; Music; and the Performing Arts, complemented by opportunities in educational and social science for student teachers, as well as a service-orientated administration, the University has established the conditions that will ensure its successful continuity in the new millennium.
As Germany's largest arts University, it is both a laboratory and a forum for the arts, sciences and research. As such, it invites society and economy to engage in dialogue and brings the resultant creativity into society.
Thinking above and beyond disciplinary borders, working in interdisciplinary teams is daily practice at the University. Students and teachers together seek the optimal solutions in a number of interdepartmental establishments.
Beyond that, the University has over one hundred international university partnerships; every year more than 100 students of the University spend part of their course abroad on exchange programmes.
With "UdK plus", the UdK Berlin is also the pioneer for innovative concepts with practical orientation in the area of postgraduate studies.
"UdK plus" offers a new combination of research institutes and courses of study educating on a career-orientated university level.
Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe HfM
The HfM Karlsruhe, founded a hundred years ago as the "Conservatory of the Duke of Baden", developed its focus on contemporary music after the second world war. In 1988/1999 this focus was enlarged to include "Computer Music", corresponding with the startup of a new ComputerStudio, meanwhile becoming one of the largest electronic music and multimedia studios among the academic institutions in Germany. Around the "nucleus" of the ComputerStudio there are: the Institute for contemporary Music and Multimedia; the Institute LernRadio (where students produce daily radio broadcasts); and most recently the Institute for Musicology and Music Informatics. But also the other institutes and faculties at the HfM - which cover nearly all musical areas - are increasingly participating in the major musical concepts and technologies of our time. The HfM is intensively involved in projects within the area of virtual teaching and tele-teaching over the web (e .g. the "Virtual University of Baden-Württemberg").
Musikhochschule Franz Liszt Weimar
The Liszt School of Music is a dynamic, internationally-accredited university located at Europe's historic cultural meeting point, Weimar. Each year, we welcome talented students at both undergraduate and graduate levels from all over the globe. We offer a multifaceted, modern and comprehensive musical foundation, reflecting developments in the areas of performance, music theory and musicology. Throughout Germany and abroad, first-class orchestral activities and projects of international significance testify to our ongoing vitality. Our students are attracted by the opportunity to receive the highest quality education from outstanding professors, propelling music into the future in the tradition of Franz Liszt.
Weimar is a good choice to study music: the classical city situated on the Ilm has approximately 850 students with almost ideal studying conditions. One can study almost every aspect of music: all orchestral instruments, piano, guitar, accordion, recorder, singing, theatre, organ, cembalo, composition, conducting, school music and music pedagogy. In addition, jazz and music theory, musicology and culture management are offered. A lively history including Goethe and Schiller and Bach and Liszt greets the students, just as the active organization today does. We can take the ultramodern studio of electro-acoustic music as such an example which works in co-operation with the neighbouring Bauhaus University.