{"id":20595,"date":"2024-08-12T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\/hfm\/?page_id=20595"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:33:26","slug":"hochschule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musik.uni-mainz.de\/en\/hochschule\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n\n\n \n<\/jgu-base-anchornavigation>\n\n\n
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Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mainz School of Music (HfM) is the only school of music in Rhineland-Palatinate. Currently, nearly 400 young men and women are studying here in over 20 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, as well as in the concert exam\/doctorate area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our School of Music sees itself as a place where a wide variety of people come together to dedicate themselves to a common passion. We train excellent musicians, researchers and educators and treat each other as equals. We support our students not only in developing their professional potential, but also in their personal development. Creativity, innovation and interdisciplinarity are just as essential foundations of our work as a personal and inspiring cooperation and mutual respect. With innovative projects, we look to the future while at the same time maintaining our sense of preserving the traditional artistic heritage. Cooperation with a variety of institutional partners to promote young musicians is an important concern for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a School of Music, we are not only an educational institution, but also a cultural organizer. Together with our students, we realize numerous concerts of various styles and genres every year and provide impulses to the city of Mainz and the entire Rhine-Main region through projects and workshops. Music knows no boundaries and not only for this reason the School of Music is a place of diversity, mutual respect and mutual appreciation, where discrimination and abuse of power are not accepted. We put the students at the center of our work and promote a free and independent practice of art as well as the reflection of this in social responsibility, so that music can meaningfully develop its social functions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Valerie Krupp
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The School of Music was founded in 1948 as the “Staatliches Hochschulinstitut f\u00fcr Musik” by Ernst Laaff and integrated into the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 1973 as the “Faculty of Music Education”. The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate thus decided on a special path within the German educational landscape: Instead of founding an independent School of Music, artistic training was integrated into the university. The courses offered initially included the teacher education in music at grammar schools<\/em>, Church Music A-Exam<\/em> and B-Exam<\/em> and State Music Teacher Examination<\/em> degree programs. With the establishment of further artistic degree programs, it was renamed “Faculty of Music” in 1986. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Rhineland-Palatinate University Act from 2003 provides for a special status for artistic training, which was implemented in the basic regulations of Johannes Gutenberg University in 2004: The “Faculty of Music” became the “School of Music” with a complete range of artistic, artistic-pedagogical, and scientific courses offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new building for the School of Music was completed on campus in October 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The numbers speak for themselves: Mainz is a city shaped by students and a popular place of study. With around 35,100 students, the Johannes Gutenberg University is one of the ten largest higher education institutions in Germany. Its wide range of courses offered is ideally complemented by the two universities of applied sciences, where another 5,000 students are enrolled, with a focus on nursing and social services as well as technology, design and economics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, these almost 40,000 young people not only study, they live, shop, have fun in pubs, cafes and clubs, visit museums or start creative projects.”<\/p>\nmainz.de<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The HfM recording studio hosts seminars in acoustics, music production, and media literacy, as well as CD productions, audio and video concert recordings, concert sound reinforcement, livestreams, and the production of instructional videos. Students can create demo recordings for competitions or to support their transition to a profession. The heart of the recording studio is a hybrid SSL AWS console, which enables both high-quality fully analog mixes<\/strong> and digital productions<\/strong>, including Dolby Atmos in Pro Tools or Sequoia with 7.4.1 monitoring capabilities (Geithain). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekly studio concerts from the recording studio are broadcast as a livestream<\/strong> on our YouTube channel and on cable television via the open channel Mainz as part of the media literacy seminar, under the series “\u2026and we are LIVE!”. The live video direction and high-quality camera equipment<\/strong> enable the documentation of outstanding concerts, including our own series “Achtung, Aufnahme!”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 25 CD productions with students, including those with external labels, as well as radio broadcasts in cooperation with SWR, have been released. The CD “Rinck: Organ Works”, recorded with students on the Dreymann organ in St. Ignaz Church Mainz, was on the longlist for the German Record Critics’ Award 2021, and the audiobook production “The Marriage of Figaro” was awarded the German Audiobook Prize in the category “The Special Audiobook” in 2025. The Gutenberg Teaching College and the Friends of the University recognized and supported innovative teaching projects in the recording studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n<\/jgu-base-image>\n\n\n

In addition, the higher education institution is equipped with a multi-channel portable sound system<\/strong> for external concerts and sound installations, as well as permanently installed systems<\/strong> in the concert halls. Two student workstations can be used for video editing, sound recording, or post-production after instruction. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

In the master\u2019s degree program Sound Art-Composition<\/strong>, a special aspect lies on spatial sound. Various possibilities of digital sound synthesis as well as a MIDI workstation serve the students in the master\u2019s degree program Sound Art-Composition at three excellently equipped student workspaces for intensive familiarization with the world of electronic sounds, musique concr\u00e8te and acoustic art. Other multi-channel and complex sound installations can also be realized experimentally. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

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In the multifunctional listening lab<\/strong> of the School of Music, computer-aided<\/strong> practice classes and seminars are held in the areas of Music Theory, ear training, harmony, practical piano playing for schools, improvisation, arrangement, composition, production, and piano practice. Preparatory courses for aptitude tests also take place in the listening lab, some as hybrid seminars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students have the opportunity to practically understand learning content with appropriate software at 12 Mac workstations<\/strong>. Notation (Sibelius, Dorico, Musescore<\/em>), DAW (Logic, Pro Tools<\/em>), transcription (Anytune<\/em>) and other music programs are used. Professional keyboards<\/strong> (Nord Stage<\/em>) and mixing consoles<\/strong> with loudspeakers and headphones are available at all locations. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-tabsitem>\n\n\n \n\n\n<\/jgu-base-tabsitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-tabs><\/div><\/div>\n<\/jgu-base-section>\n\n\n

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The Music student council of HfM Mainz advocates for the concerns of our students. Not only at the higher education institution, but also in the general student committee (AstA) of the university. In addition to this important function, we organize community events and get-togethers \u2013 from the semester opening concert to mulled wine sales, barbecue parties, and pub crawls! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a small insight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n