New Audiences and Innovative Practice Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen

Overview

How do we create a professional practice in music that can constantly reflect on and adapt to the society in which it happens? This New Audiences and Innovative Practice study offered by Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen will equip students to answer these questions.

NAIP is for students from all musical backgrounds, and with all musical goals. Through taking part in interdisciplinary art making, through exploring technological possibilities, through engaging with society and making site specific art, you will develop the necessary skills to become a creative and flexible all-round musician, able to create with, and in response to any context. 

Key facts

NAIP is the first joint European Master in the musical field, with the curriculum being designed with input from five conservatoires and seven external professional and educational institutions in four European countries.

Your study evolves around developing a Professional Integration Project (PIP). This project can be designed in any way depending on your own interests, ambitions and qualities and will eventually lead to finalising your Master. To prepare your PIP you follow some mandatory modules such as Performance & Communication, Leading & Guiding, Project Management & Entrepreneurship and Practice-based Research. In addition to the mandatory modules there is a variety of optional modules which you can choose within the frame of Open Credits. It is also important to bring in your own projects in order to shape your individual pathway. You will have the opportunity to participate in joint intensive projects we organise together with our international NAIP partners.

Students in this master's programme are all educated as musicians or vocalists. During your NAIP studies you work towards developing your instrumental competences further. You receive instrumental or vocal lessons from PCC teachers and renowned guest teachers from all over the world. You will also work on your improvisation skills in the LAB and Creative Ensemble. You can use these skills on stage but also in interdisciplinary collaborations and the field of education.