Composer - Jazz/pop

In addition to your main instrument, you immerse yourself in composing and arranging for different instrument groups.

The teaching combines theoretical knowledge with practical experience, and during your education you will be composing and performing larger compositions.

Various compositional techniques are used in both rhythmic and modern classical music, as well as orchestration, instrumentation and performance. You will be introduced to essential composers and their characteristics and be able to reflect on your own and others' compositions and put them into a larger context.

Graduates from the programme often find work as musicians in bands and orchestras, as performing musicians, as teachers at folk high schools, music schools, primary and lower secondary schools, day folk high schools, institutions of higher education, continuation schools etc., as orchestra, ensemble or choir directors, as heads of music schools, as cultural or musical communicators etc.