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Historical Performance

Bachelor

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During the Bachelor and Master of Music at the Historical Performance Department of the HKU Utrecht Conservatorium, you'll learn to approach music from an historical perspective.
Based on historical sources such as instruments and methods, you'll inform yourself on the instrumental techniques and musical aesthetics in a given period and in a given country and its implications for the interpretation of the repertoire, then, and now. A close team of internationally renowned specialists will inform you about the performance practice from the Renaissance to Romanticism.

Instruments: historical violin, historical viola, historical cello, historical bassoon (dulcian), historical trombone and historical hobo, as well as harpsichord (clavichord), viola da gamba (violone), traverso, cornetto and recorder. It is also possible to choose a combination of instruments as a main subject: melody instruments or bass instruments. You can think of a combination of instruments, such as cornetto, recorder and dulcian, or gamba, cello and violone (other combinations are possible as well).

The main subject lessons, ensemble lessons, projects and master classes are supported by theoretical classes. Using historical sources, these classes discuss topics that musicians were formerly assumed to be familiar with, such as rhetoric, solmisation, mensural notation and dance.

Language

English

Title

Bachelor

Duration

4 years

ECTS credits

Accreditation

NVAO

Tuition fee 2025/2026

€ 2,601


Admission

Application requirements

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Language requirements

C1
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English
5.5
IELTS overall band
196
TOEFL computer based
70
TOEFL internet based

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Tuition fees  
€ 2,601
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Start date App. deadline EU/EEA App. deadline Non-EU/EEA
1 Sep '25 1 Feb '25 1 Feb '25

Contact

HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

Main address
Nieuwekade 1
3511 RV Utrecht
030 - 2091540

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