Classical Performance Master Degree
120 ECTS / 2 years
Campus Leuven / Lemmens
Campus Leuven / Lemmens
Classical Performance Master
Academic Master
At LUCA School of Arts, Campus Lemmens in Leuven, Belgium—a European music Conservatoire with a rich tradition dating back to 1879—we offer bachelor’s and master’s programs in: accordion, brass, carillon, chamber music (only Master), folk, guitar, harp, Marimba (only Master), organ, percussion, piano, strings, voice.
Curriculum
The Bachelor and Master program focuses on an instrumental and artistic development towards a professional musician, soloistic and orchestral training, projects, research and entrepreneurship. Chamber music and ensemble playing, in all its diversity, are strongly anchored, with student performances, lunch and evening concerts, in- and outside.
Guided by a team of international renowned teachers and soloists, we also offer additional master classes, workshops and concerts with leading artists. Our students are into a strong and inquisitive performer, transferring their knowledge and skills to others and managing their own musical future.
"I came for my main subject teacher, but stayed with LUCA for everything else."
Emiel Vertongen, student cello
If you want to know more about which subjects you will receive, check out the education offer with study guide for content and credits here.
What do you need?
A good command of English (level B2) is required to make the most of your stay with us. Campus Lemmens does not own student accommodation. Therefore, you will have to rent a room on the private housing market for the duration of your stay. To help you in your search, please visit the website of the KUL or contact our student support services.
Interested in this course?
Application & entry requirements
To start our programme, you must meet a few admission requirements. Besides diploma and study credit requirements, there are also additional language and residence requirements for students from outside the Flemish Community. Moreover, you must also pass an Artistic Admission Test.
More information about the admission requirements
Start with the Master course?
Where do you have class?
Facilities & campus life
- Our very own campus, situated in a parc in one of Europe's oldest university towns
- An artistic meeting space for theater maker and musicians
- A coworking space with rehearsal studio's concert halls and theater venues
- An art centre with concerts, performances and theater shows, lectures and artist talks, book launches, graduation shows and showcases
- An expertise centre for young perfomnce artists with an art library, production support and a lending service
- An intricate network of cultural partners where students rehears and show the results of their projects
Location
Lemmensberg 3
3000 Leuven
info.lemmens@luca-arts.be
+32 2 447 15 00
Contact
If you need more information, don't hesitate to contact us:
International Coordinator Campus Lemmens
Diana Solomonidou
diana.solomonidou@luca-arts.be
At LUCA we attach great importance to the quality of our courses
If the basic principle of the policy plan means that 'quality is our driving force', and that every aspect of the policy can be tested against this, then LUCA undeniably wants to develop and nurture a strong quality culture: a culture that leaves based on trust in people with talent and expertise, and which is aimed at valuing, inspiring and improving.
The formal quality framework for training within LUCA was named KOPERA, which stands for: Critically Analyzing the Quality of Training with Peers in Own Direction.
For KOPERA, LUCA starts from a vision of quality care that is based on trust and aimed at valuing, inspiring and improving.
During the six-year KOPERA cycle, each training course receives a panel of critical friends who examine the implementation of the quality characteristics and examine how the training contributes to the general LUCA policy.
The final element of KOPERA is the ultimate assurance of training quality. The key question is: "Does the program have a good quality culture that follows the 'plan-do-check-act' circle?"
LUCA publishes a quality sheet for each course. You can find this on the Education Quality page.
Further studies and career
As a Master in Music your options are diverse.
As a performing musician, you are ready to participate in auditions from renowned orchestras and ensembles.
As an entrepreneur-artist you can create solo and chamber music projects, find your way to theatre and production houses or you can look forward to a brilliant future as an arranger, composer, programmer or conductor.
As an educational artist, you have teaching qualifications in Art Education (DKO), other forms of education, non-formal art education and social-artistic work. If this is your chosen path you should definitively check our shortened Educational Master (in Dutch).
Staff
Our team of professors includes principal musicians from the leading orchestras in Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as esteemed chamber musicians and renowned soloists.
| Art in Context | David Lodewyckx | Bart Geerts |
| Maxime Waladi | Barbara Vandendriessche | |
| Art Philosophy | Annelies Monseré | |
| Chamber Music | Ludwig Albert | |
| Benny Wiame | Christel Kessels | |
| Griet Cornelis | Geert De Bièvre | |
| João Carlos Victor | ||
| Roeland Hendrikx | ||
| Choir | Kurt Bikkembergs | |
| Ear Training | Jos De Rijck | Bart Van Caenegem |
| Early Music (Atelier) | Alamire Foundation | |
| Folk Music (Atelier) | Pieterjan Van Kerckhoven | |
| Harmony | Geert Van der Straeten | Kris Wittevrongel |
| Lut Verbeke | ||
| Music Analysis | Jeroen D'hoe | |
| Music History | David Lodewyckx | |
| New Music (Atelier) | Geert De Bièvre | |
| Opera | Thomas Blondelle | |
| Orchestra | Ivan Meylemans | Michel Tilkin |
| Orchestral Instruments (Atelier) | Michel Tilkin | |
| Piano accompanist | Rita Degraeuwe | Filip Martens |
| Dorenda Notermans | ||
| Roeland Vermeulen | ||
| Peter Jeurissen | ||
| Practical Harmony | Marc Deckers | |
| Professional Toolkit | Peter Anthonissen | Jeroen Vanbever |
| Research in Performing Arts | Jeroen D'hoe | |
| Rhythm | Tom Pipeleers | |
| Scenic Awareness for singers (Atelier) | Jos Verlinden | |
| Transposition | Jeroen Vanbever |
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