You would like to study being an artist and teaching music at an academy of music or a similar institution, but do not know how to master the entrance exam?

We would like to support you on your way there!

For several years now, the Junge Musikakademie Hamburg has successfully prepared prospective students for their entrance exams, relying on the professional background, experience and motivation of our nationally certified teachers as well as the motivating learning atmosphere at our institution.

Now we are taking one more step forward: From September 2018 we are offering a new compact program in the form of a pre-study year.

Part of our profile has always been respecting a perfect balance between achievement on the one hand and individual support of each musical personality on the other hand, based on mutual respect.

In addition to our focus on preparing you for your entrance exam, our academy offers you different seminars and modules to make up a program that gives you a wide professional choice of finding the right profession for you in the field of music and culture.

You will be taught by our tutors in the following subjects:

• Main subject / instrument
• Piano as a minor subject
• Theory of music and aural training.

Our Curriculum also includes further studies to prepare you in the best possible way for other important aspects of your studies and your professional life, such as giving concerts, auditioning and the various situations of teaching music.  
They include

• Seminars on the following subject
• Training for playing on stage
• Mental training for musicians
• Practising techniques
• Ensemble playing and chamber music
• The basics of teaching an instrument as well as supervising and coaching you while you teach
• Visiting teaching sessions for instruments
• Programs guiding you to find the right profession for you
• An extended additional cultural program (such as visiting the opera and concerts)

In addition to all this we are pleased to be the only German pre-study institution that offers seminars on the subject of Encouraging®. For those we have been able to enlist Carola Hartmann who has successfully coached students in this field for several years. Further information regarding our Encouraging® seminar can be found here.

For students from abroad, we offer German language classes and support in paperwork with the authorities and in finding somewhere to live in Hamburg.

You can find further information regarding this offer in our  FAQ and our Conditions of  Admittance and Taking Part .

You are interested and would like to apply? For the respective form, please click  here.