Master Of Music

The Institute for Pop Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts runs a postgraduate Masters course for pop artists. Supervised by a team of professionally qualified lecturers, students extensively develop their artistic personalities and projects over four semesters – from a content-related, organisational, aesthetic and legal perspective. This culminates in the Master of Music degree.

Studies

The ‘Popular Music’ Masters practical arts course is an interdisciplinary project course aimed at artists with a Bachelor degree and artistic experience. The focus is on creating pop music as an independent art form…

Lecturers

Gregor Schwellenbach Pop-Music Composition
& Arrangement/Pop-music in practice Anne Ohlen Copyright & media law Philipp Janzen Pop-Music Composition
& Arrangement/Sound & Effect Tanja Godlewsky Concept & Design Christian Kalinowski
aka NUMINOS Sound & Effect Thomas Venker Markets, Economies & Management Henrik von Holtum aka Textor Music & Lyrics Richard Ojijo Sound & Effect Dr. Katharina Hausladen Music & Media / Trends & Society Verena Maas Video & Animation Steffen Müller Video & Animation

The Institute

The Institute for Pop Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts began operations at the Folkwang Bochum campus in October 2014. It runs a postgraduate Masters course for pop artists, and considers itself a place of both learning and thinking. It doesn’t see pop music simply as a rigid ‘style’, but rather as a dynamic form of contemporary art that always appears in relation to other art forms …

Master of Music

Project-based studies
for pop artists