Contact Studies

Contact studies serve to deepen the artistic or musicological knowledge and supplement practical professional experience. In particular, it should:

• Adapt specialist knowledge to the latest artistic or musicological developments,
• Expand insights over the interrelationships of the subject,
• Further develop and support the ability to practice art,
• To hold and deepen the ability to evaluate musicological methods and knowledge,
• Impart specialist knowledge in certain areas.

The Trossingen University of Music offers contact studies in basically three focuses:

• Artistic Contact Studies: supplementary artistic studies in the chosen major.
• Artistic-pedagogical Contact Studies: supplementary artistic-pedagogical studies (Study content of the artistic-pedagogical immersion of the Master program)
• Musicological Contact Studies: supplementary musicological studies (music pedagogy and musicology)

Contact studies are offered within free capacities. It doesn't serve as preparation for a future entrance audition/examination.  

Upon completion of the contact studies, the Trossingen University of Music issues a corresponding certificate. For artistic contact studies, the certificate bears the name of the major as well as the instructor. For the artistic-pedagogical and musicological contact studies, it bears a list and description of the successfully completed courses.