SRH University
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Study World Music

World Music Bachelor of Arts | Berlin

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Master Your Craft in Trans-Traditional Creative Musicking

🎵 Our programme nurtures musical understanding, technical skill, and expressive artistry. Become a highly professional musician and launch a successful career in the world of music.

🌟 Unlock your potential.

Our Quality – Your Success

SRH University is a non-profit and state-recognised private university

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World Music (B.A.)

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What you'll learn

This programme provides a broad foundation in artistic practice, research, teaching, and self-management.

🎶 Key elements include:

  • Development of your own artistic work in cross-traditional, cross-genre, and cross-disciplinary contexts
  • Performative and creative sound design, including analogue, digital, intermodal, and installative practices
  • Interdisciplinary knowledge in history, music theory, aesthetics, aural training, and instrumental studies with a global, culturally differentiated perspective
  • Engagement with artistic and academic research methods
  • Training in music education, pedagogy, and project management

📚 Teaching and learning methods: Lectures, seminars, research workshops, individual and group lessons, exercises, rehearsals, internships, field research, and independent project work. Peer-to-peer learning is integrated to leverage the diverse composition of the student body.

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Your career facts

Graduates of the programme have diverse professional fields open to them:

Artistic Career 🎻

  • Professional performer in orchestras, ensembles, chamber groups, or as a soloist
  • Theater or opera musician, session musician, touring artist
  • Roles in media and music technology, such as music producer or sound designer
  • Access to financial support through government grants, cultural foundations, and EU funding programs (especially in Berlin)

Education and Teaching 📚

  • Music educator or instrumental teacher
  • Lecturer in musicology or ethnomusicology
  • University lecturer or researcher at academic institutes
  • High demand for music teachers in public and private schools

Cultural Management 🎭

  • Cultural manager, event organizer, music festival director, or music agent
  • Event manager for planning and executing artistic events
  • Coordinator for music or arts festivals, managing performances and artists
  • Flexible career paths with seasonal and project-based opportunities

Graduates are equipped to shape a versatile career at the intersection of performance, education, and cultural management.

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Quick facts

  • 🕒 Duration: 6 semesters
  • 📍 Location: Berlin
  • 🎓 Start: Summer and winter semesters
  • 🗣️ Language: English
  • 💶 Tuition fees:
    • from €1,500 per month for EU/EEA students
    • €9,250 per semester for non-EU/EEA students

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