Nordic Performance Master in Jazz, Nomazz
The Nordic Master's Programme in Jazz gives you in-depth artistic skills as a musician, composer and ensemble leader. You will have a unique opportunity to study and take part of each partner's special field of expertise and to form a personal musical profile in collaboration with other high-level jazz musicians.
KMH offers a joint Nordic jazz education together with
- The Royal Academy of Music (DJM) in Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
- Sibelius Academy (SibA) in Helsinki, Finland.
Admission takes place every two years and the language of instruction is English.
Focus on Collaboration and Exchange
The programme benefits from group collaboration and the competence and education culture of each partner college, which provides a good foundation for and current insight into Nordic jazz music as well as a unique opportunity for international and intercultural exchange.
You apply to one of these university colleges and the education leads to a Master's degree from your home college.
The second semester and the last semester are on KMH. The first and third semesters are taken at the partner colleges through exchange studies.
Admissions
To be eligible for this programme, you need to
- meet the general entry requirements for second-cycle courses and study programmes, meaning you must have completed an undergraduate study programme of at least 180 ECTS
- meet the specific entry requirements which are a Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music (180 credits) or equivalent, as well as passed entrance examination.
If the number of eligible applicants exceeds the number of places, a selection will take place. Selection is based on results on entrance examination. You as an applicant are placed in a selection group according to the instrument you apply for.
Read more about general entry requirements
Read the test description for the programme for information about the entrance examination content.
Application dates and deadlines
2 December 2024
Application opens at universityadmissions.se
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15 January 2025
Application deadline and last day to rank your programmes and courses.
All applicants who have submitted an application will be given the opportunity to do the first stage of the entrance examinations.
16–17 January 2025
An email is sent to the email address you entered on universityadmissions.se with instructions on how to submit your test to KMH including the link for uploading Test 1. See the test description for information on what to submit.
27 January 2025
- Last day to upload Test 1 to KMH.
- Supporting documentation deadline. Last day to submit documentation to universityadmissions.se External link, opens in new window. and show that you meet the entry requirements.
- Deadline to document fee exempt status (EU/EEA) or pay the application fee (non EU/EEA). Fees, scholarships, residence permits (universityadmissions.se) External link, opens in new window.
12–19 February 2025
Results for Test 1 are sent via email. Passing applicants will receive information and invites to the next test.
8–16 March 2025
Entrance examinations during week 11 (and adjacent weekends).
10 April 2025
First notification of selection result. You must reply to keep your place/remain on the waiting list.
24 April 2025
Last day to reply to your offer and keep your place (applies to both admitted and applicants on waiting list). You do this on My pages on universityadmissions.se External link, opens in new window..
7 May 2025
Second notification of selection result.
25 August 2025
Introduction week and registration.
1 September 2025
Semester starts.
Programme Content
The overall aim of the program is to provide in-depth artistic skills for musicians, composers and ensemble leaders to work in the diverse jazz genre.
Therefore, instrumental studies are central to enable you to develop very good skills on your own instrument combined with independent creation in improvisation, composition and music production.
The main instrument courses contribute to the development of your individual special character as an instrumentalist and improviser at a very high level. The link between instrumental technique and improvised tone language is clarified to enable you to work in many varied musical environments with all your specifics intact. The content is adapted to a large extent according to your needs and conditions.
In the courses you are expected to perform both as an ensemble musician and soloist in concerts that are documented and analysed, and as such will constitute further study material.
In the ensemble courses you get to play in ensemble under supervision, work with arrangements in prepared or unprepared moments as well as interaction and improvisation. All this is done through musical communication in an international environment.
The courses in international entrepreneurial music contain:
- the international music market for jazz musicians,
- legislation relating to a career as a freelance musician,
- copyright issues,
- construction and negotiation of contracts,
- information about different networks, organisations and organisers in folk music.
In addition to this, special interest is devoted to working with promotion, distribution and production of various types of information/PR material.
The programme also includes elective courses and student-driven artistic projects and ends with a high-level graduate degree.
The Degree Project aims at giving you as a student the opportunity to showcase your artistic level in a concert or music production and to formulate yourself in a written, reflective work about working methods and experiences in the process of the degree project.
After the Programme
After completing studies in the Nordic Master's Programme in Jazz, you will be able to show both the width and depth of the jazz genres and your own performance.
Previous students are distinguished today on the Nordic jazz scene and work as freelance musicians in different constellations.
One of the things I love the most about the musical environment in the Nordic countries is the open-mindedness and diversity that exists. Lars Fiil, alumnus
The programme also prepares for third-cycle education.