8 Music Masters Degree Programs in Netherlands

This Master's programme offers two specializations: one in Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures and another in Theatre, Culture and Media studies. Each specialization encompasses both emergent and historically established practices in music and theatre and the performing arts.

Unlock your artistic potential in the Master of Music programme at Conservatorium Maastricht, an internationally respected conservatory at the heart of Europe’s vibrant cultural scene. Our two-year Master’s programme in Classical Music and Jazz is designed for advanced musicians who are ready to deepen their skills, refine their unique artistic voice, and expand their professional network on a global scale.

Are you musically gifted and do you seek a career as a professional performer on an international stage? Then this master might be for you. Fontys offers a unique programme, designed to cater to your artistic and professional needs. Choose your direction in Classical, Jazz, Music-Theatre, Pop, or Creator Performer. As a Master of Music student, you receive a two-year personal budget, to tailor your curriculum. You may even use this budget to take lessons with artists outside Fontys, even internationally.

The master’s course Music Therapy is designed for practicing music therapists who want to advance and innovate their musical, clinical and research skills in the creative and international environment that ArtEZ University of the Arts offers.

The Master of Music at the Prince Claus Conservatoire is an innovative master’s programme for students who are talented, passionate and socially engaged. Several study routes are available to you: Classical Music, New York Jazz, New Audiences & Innovative Practice (NAIP). Your professional practice as a musician is central to our programme. By integrating performance, entrepreneurship and research, the programme prepares you for the profession at the highest level and to respond to the challenges and opportunities in society at large.

The ArtEZ Master Classical Music provides a stimulating environment in which you learn to draw up and try out your ideas. Of course, you will be fine-tuning your skills, being on stage a lot, but at the same time you are urged to challenge yourself: by being curious, experimenting, asking questions and conducting research. You are challenged to let go of certainties and seek out your own motivations, and you do so always from a self-reflective point of view. The course helps you to develop not only your talents and skills, but also your vision: the artistic and social workings of your vision, with which you can take the lead in a rapidly changing work field.

Develop your own vision, sound and style as a professional music performer and curator with the two-year English-language Master Jazz Pop in Zwolle. Being a successful musician nowadays means more than having talent and knowing your instrument: the field is constantly evolving, and old stories require new deliverance.

The Master Jazz Pop at ArtEZ provides a stimulating environment in which you learn to draw up and try out your ideas. Of course, you will be fine-tuning your skills, being on stage a lot, but at the same time you are urged to challenge yourself: by being curious, experimenting, asking questions and conducting research. You are challenged to let go of certainties and seek out your own motivations, and you do so always from a self-reflective point of view. The course helps you to develop not only your talents and skills, but also your vision: the artistic and social workings of your vision, with which you can take the lead in a rapidly changing work field. Are you ready to re-define yourself as an artist? Do you dare to experiment? Can you shape up and fine-tune your personal artistic signature, boost your creativity, or look beyond the borders of your own discipline?