Master Programme Piano
Linz, Austria
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
German
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Master Programme Piano at the Anton Bruckner Private University deepens skills from a bachelor's to prepare you for independent artistic work as a pianist. It emphasizes artistic practice, interpretive development, and critical engagement with artistic and artistic-scientific issues while offering specialization within a common curriculum. Taught in German, the program awards a Master of Arts (MA) and runs for 4 semesters / 120 ECTS. Keywords: piano performance, pedagogy, research.
Career Outcomes: Graduates qualify for professional roles in theatre, concert or radio orchestras, music schools, and freelance practice. Paths include performance, teaching, accompaniment, and artistic-research roles in cultural institutions.
The artistic master’s degree in piano serves to deepen the skills acquired in the bachelor’s degree with the aim of highly qualified artistic professional training. It should convey the qualification for an independent, highly responsible artistic activity as an instrumentalist and contribute to the development and opening up of the arts through a critical examination of artistic and artistic-scientific issues
The master’s degree adds to the qualifications acquired in the bachelor’s degree in order to expand and deepen them in the area of the major or branch of study to be selected, as well as skills and knowledge. This ensures that the necessary differentiation is not only effective in the area of the ZKF, as in the bachelor's degree, but also in the supplementary courses. Nevertheless, the curriculum provides for a wide range of common subjects, which ensures that the training remains uniform in structure and level despite the branch or specialization model under the umbrella of a joint master’s degree.
The professional qualification as an instrumentalist already acquired with the completion of the bachelor's degree is deepened individually in the master's degree. Corresponding professional fields exist both in the institutional sector (e.g. theater, concert or radio orchestras, music schools) and in the free profession.
Duration: 4 semesters / 120 ECTS
Language of instruction: German
Academic degree: Master of Arts (MA)
