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Church Music Bachelor

General information

Application deadline

15 March till 15 April for the winter semester

    • General Higher Education Entrance Qualification
      • Exception: applicants may be accepted without a university entrance qualification if they demonstrate outstanding musical talent
    • musical talent
    • german language skills B2 according to CEFR 
      • Proof can be submitted until matriculation

    • Standard period of study: 8 semesters, 240 credit points
    • Degree: Bachelor of Music (B Mus)

Your application – step by step

All of the steps listed below must be completed within the application period for the respective study programme. We recommend that you submit your application as early as possible within the application period so that you can clarify any questions that may arise with our StudyGuide in good time.

  • Register and verify your identity (if you have not already done so) on the UdK Berlin application portal: https://my.udk-berlin.de

     

  • Fee per application: EUR 50.00 (plus fees for international transfers)

    Proof of payment: bank statement or transfer confirmation with value date

    Universität der Künste Berlin
    IBAN: DE 72 1009 0000 8841 0150 46
    BIC: BEVO DE BB XXX
    Payment reference: 35/01036, study programme, name, application number

    Berliner Volksbank eG
    Budapester Straße 35
    10787 Berlin
    Germany
     

    For international transfers:
    Please ensure that you cover all transfer fees incurred (OUR – sender pays costs) when making the transfer.

  • During the application process, you will be asked to submit formal documents. Please prepare these as individual PDF files (max. 5 MB each).

    Formal documents:

    • Curriculum vitae with details of musical training
    • School leaving certificate
    • Transcript of records, if applicable (Application for a higher semester)
    • Preliminary examination document (VPD) from uni-assist, if applicable (see FAQs)
    • Proof of German language proficiency at B2 level according to CEFR for international applicants (see FAQs)
      • Proof can be submitted until matriculation
    • Proof of payment of application fees

  • Log in to the application portal (https://my.udk-berlin.de) and submit an application for admission to your desired study programme within the application period and upload the formal documents.

FAQs and Tutorials

Submitting application documents at a later date

Are you unable to submit your school leaving certificate or university degree certificate within the application deadline? 

Studying without a school leaving certificate (section ‘General university entrance qualification - §11 BerlHG’)

Changing universities / Applying for a higher semester

Recognition of international educational qualifications (VPD and APS)

Language certificates (requirements and accepted certificates)

Help and tutorials for the my.udk application portal

Help and tutorials for the Bemus upload portal

 

 

Entrance examinations

What happens after the application?

All applicants who have applied by the deadline will receive an invitation to the entrance examination by e-mail.

Applicants should prepare the following:
Four different works, preferably in different styles of music (baroque style, classical music, contemporary music/Neue Musik). The applicant’s selection of works is seen as part of his/her artistic overall performance. We recommend that applicants make contact with suitable teachers in their major subject in good time before applying.

The entrance examination consists of the following:
•Organ Repertoire: Performance of three greater organ works – chosen by the applicant – from different epochs of which one has to be an
either free genre or choral work by J.S. Bach

•  Liturgical Organ Playing/Improvisation:
a) With preparation: Prelude and four-part harmony, improvisation either free or in a certain style (applicant’s choice)
b) Without preparation: Intonation and four-part harmony, arrangement for two-voices, short free improvisation over a given theme

• Piano playing:
Presentation of three self-chosen pieces of different styles

• Music theory and ear training:
a) Written exam (approx. 2 hours): simple numbered Basso continuo, simple movement for four-voices on a given
melody, basic knowledge of Roman numeral analysis and/or functional harmony, identification of intervals, triads, tetrads
and rhythms (dictation of simple melodic and harmonic structures)
b) If necessary additional oral exam

• Singing: Performance of self-chosen song, degree of difficulty comparable to the Lieder in Schemelli’s songbook

• Choral conducting:
Rehearsing a small given choir piece (canon, etc.) with a choir. You will be informed about the piece 8 days ahead ofthe exam.

Usually the exam is followed by a conversation between the commission and the candidate.

Church Music C Training

Regional church music C training: What is it?
C organ training with professional lessons in the region and Saturday lessons at the UdK in Berlin.

What does it look like?
Trainees receive weekly lessons in organ literature, church accompaniment/improvisation and music theory/ear training over two years in their home church district. On approximately 22 Saturdays, spread over one or two years, they attend theory classes in Berlin.

All information can be found here:
https://www.kirchenmusik-ekbo.de/aus-und-fortbildung/kirchenmusikalisches-c-seminar