Composition – Jazz
Deepen your artistry in an environment where improvisation, experimental creation, and artistic research are at the core. Explore what jazz composition can be while you develope your own artistic voice within one of today’s most dynamic musical forms.
The Master’s Programme in Composition, with a specialisation in Jazz, offers you the opportunity to work closely with professionally active composers and musicians. You will receive support to forge your own path, whether you wish to explore the traditions of jazz, challenge them, or combine them with other forms such as electroacoustic or contemporary art music.
About the programme
- Strengthen your craft, deepen your artistic voice, and develop your reflective skills.
- Develop your artistic ideas in professional contexts.
- Specialise within your field and pursue in-depth study through a broad range of elective courses.
Experiment and Create in Professional Contexts
As a student, you have considerable freedom to shape your own studies. The programme places strong emphasis on individual tuition and supervision, while also offering seminars and workshops in which artistic perspectives, methods, and processes are explored.
Through cross-disciplinary and cross-genre collaborations, you will have the opportunity to develop your artistry. You will undertake projects with musicians and partners both within and beyond KMH, giving you the chance to test your ideas in professional contexts. In doing so, you gain valuable experience for the future. Recurring projects include collaborations with the Bohuslän Big Band and Blåsarsymfonikerna. You are encouraged to experiment with unusual and genre-crossing combinations of musicians and instruments.
Artistic focus and independent creation
Your artistic work will be central throughout the programme. You will develop it through individual supervision, seminars, and group discussions. One example is the Composition Forum, a seminar series where all composition students gather to attend lectures, present their music, and discuss artistic questions. Here, you will meet teachers and guest lecturers, many of whom are internationally active.
The programme concludes with an independent project, comprising a major artistic project and a written reflection. This is your opportunity to deepen and clarify your artistic language and demonstrate your ability to work independently with artistic and compositional challenges.
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)
- English 6
- 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.
Read more about 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
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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.
Facilities
At KMH, you can work professionally with music in close proximity to Stockholm’s many music and arts venues and festivals. The campus features five concert halls, 161 practice rooms, a sound dome for immersive audio, and a fully equipped studio complex with modern studios and production rooms. You can record, compose, and produce music using advanced technology that provides the best possible conditions for your creative work.
After Graduation
The programme further develops your artistic and technical abilities, providing specialised knowledge of repertoire and deepened artistic insight that equips you well for a career as a composer in both the national and international music scene. The programme also prepares you for further studies at the level of artistic research.
Composition Electroacoustic Music
Study in a creative environment focused on sound and music-making, with a strong tradition of training outstanding electroacoustic composers for national and international careers.
Composition Art Music
The programme offers individual tuition and collaborative projects in composition in art music.