Performance, Jazz
Do you want to develop your artistic expression and take the next step as a musician and improviser? This programme offers you the opportunity to deepen your skills, explore new ideas, and build a profile that reflects your own musical path. It allows you to develop both breadth and depth in your knowledge, with a focus on independent artistic creation at an advanced level.
The programme gives you space to shape your own journey, lead your own projects, and grow through encounters between experimentation, new ideas, and jazz’s multifaceted expressions. You will build a platform for a sustainable and boundary-crossing career as a jazz musician, both nationally and internationally. The programme is also research-oriented and provides a solid foundation for further artistic or academic work.
About the programme
- Strong emphasis on developing your musical and artistic competence at an advanced level.
- Explore and deepen your personal expression as an improvising musician, with the freedom to determine the balance between your main instrument, improvisation, composition, and ensemble work.
- Shape the programme according to your goals and prepare for a professional life as a freelance musician within the national and international music scene.
A vibrant jazz culture
Wherever you move within the genre, the creative process is always present, with spontaneity and the individual freedom to deviate from expectations and explore new ideas at its core. It is this creative and communicative essence that the programme aims to deepen and develop at an advanced level.
As jazz is built on interaction and real-time communication, values such as equality, openness, and the questioning of conventions and hierarchies are central. Here, you are encouraged to work independently, take artistic responsibility, and explore your own expression.
Specialisation and an individual path
The programme allows you to shape your studies according to your own goals and interests. The course “Advanced Studies in Jazz” lets you determine how to distribute focus between your main instrument, improvisation, composition, and ensemble work. In project courses, you can choose to work on defined themes or pursue a consistent focus throughout the programme leading up to your final project.
You are encouraged to work independently and take artistic responsibility, both individually and collaboratively, supported by supervision and critical reflection. To further support your individual direction, a broad range of elective courses complements the mandatory courses, helping you deepen the areas you wish to develop.
Read more about general entry requirements
Read the test description for the programme for information about the entrance examination content.
Application dates and deadlines
Please see our Step-by-step guide on how to apply.
1 December 2025
Application opens at universityadmissions.se External link, opens in new window..
15 January 2026
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.
16–19 January 2026
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.
26 January 2026
- 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 document that you meet the entry requirements.
- Deadline to document fee-exempt status or pay the application fee to universityadmissions.se.
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9–18 February 2026
Results for Test 1 are sent via email. Passing applicants will receive an invitation and information about the next test.
7–15 March 2026
Entrance examinations during week 11 (and adjacent weekends).
15 April 2026
First notification of selection result. You must reply to keep your place or remain on the waiting list.
28 April 2026
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 2026
Second notification of selection result.
24 August 2026
Introduction week and registration.
31 August 2026
Semester starts.
After graduation
The programme provides advanced artistic competence and a strong professional foundation for working as a jazz musician across the genre’s many expressions and styles. It also prepares you for further studies at the artistic research level.
How to apply
When a programme or course is open for application, it is presented on universityadmissions.se. After submitting your application you will, in most cases, be called to an entrance examination.
New student?
Welcome to KMH! On this page you will find a summary of what you need to know as a new student.