Course: Professional Development Choir Conducting 5 credits: 5
- Course code
- MZVB25PDDK5
- Name
- Professional Development Choir Conducting 5
- Study year
- 2025-2026
- ECTS credits
- 5
- Language
- Dutch, with parts in English, English
- Coordinator
- I.S. Kruis
- Modes of delivery
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- Practical / Training
- Project-based learning
- Tutorial
- Assessments
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- Entrepreneurship 5 - Assignment
- Projects 5 - Presentation
Learning outcomes
After the course you will be able to do the following at an advanced level:
5.1 You bring musical work (on- and offline) to the outside world.
6.2 You organize work processes in such a way that artistic, business, organizational and/or social activities are carried out coherently and in a balanced way.
5.1 You bring musical work (on- and offline) to the outside world.
6.2 You organize work processes in such a way that artistic, business, organizational and/or social activities are carried out coherently and in a balanced way.
Content
Students develop competences related to the musician as maker in society such as entrepreneurial attitude, reflective ability, investigative attitude and educational action in connection with various contexts.
Students from the Performer, Creator and Director profiles take classes together, but also take part in lessons and projects specific to their profile. Students work on their learning outcomes through the following projects and lessons:
Professional Development:
In year two, the focus is on deepening the initial exploration. Deepening takes shape as basic knowledge of the various components is offered as subjects. At the same time, this basic knowledge is applied in different contexts, examples of these applications are internships, organizing a project week and making music in a specific setting.
In the second semester pedagogy, instrument specific methodology and work placement are offered for students Classical Music and Jazz.
Projects Performer Classical:
- Choir (Weekly choir lessons leading to (socially engaged) choir projects.
Projects Performer Jazz:
Students will participate in a special project week of organized activities, each year one instrument or style is central.
Students participate in organized projects for choir, orchestras, ensembles. Depending on line up of the ensemble a diverse group of students take part.
Projects Creator:
semester 3 & 4
- Composition arena: students C&M present monthly work to each other and learn to feedback, facilitated by a student assistant.
- Semester concert: students C&M jointly organise the half-yearly concert.
semester 3
- Eurosonic Songwriting Camp: elective project for students with a focus on songwriting
semester 4
- Creator-entrepreneurship - focus on copyright.
Students from the Performer, Creator and Director profiles take classes together, but also take part in lessons and projects specific to their profile. Students work on their learning outcomes through the following projects and lessons:
Professional Development:
In year two, the focus is on deepening the initial exploration. Deepening takes shape as basic knowledge of the various components is offered as subjects. At the same time, this basic knowledge is applied in different contexts, examples of these applications are internships, organizing a project week and making music in a specific setting.
In the second semester pedagogy, instrument specific methodology and work placement are offered for students Classical Music and Jazz.
Projects Performer Classical:
- Choir (Weekly choir lessons leading to (socially engaged) choir projects.
Projects Performer Jazz:
Students will participate in a special project week of organized activities, each year one instrument or style is central.
Students participate in organized projects for choir, orchestras, ensembles. Depending on line up of the ensemble a diverse group of students take part.
Projects Creator:
semester 3 & 4
- Composition arena: students C&M present monthly work to each other and learn to feedback, facilitated by a student assistant.
- Semester concert: students C&M jointly organise the half-yearly concert.
semester 3
- Eurosonic Songwriting Camp: elective project for students with a focus on songwriting
semester 4
- Creator-entrepreneurship - focus on copyright.
Included in programme(s)
School(s)
- Prince Claus Conservatoire