Preparatory Course Bachelor Jazz

The Jazz Preparatory Track (the JPT) is our in-house preliminary programme, our pre-bachelor. This course focusses on talented and ambitious musicians who wish to prepare in a most thorough way for our Jazz Bachelor.

There are many different reasons to start your professional music education with our Jazz Preparatory Track:

You are already an experienced player, but Jazz and improvisation are relatively new to you.
You would like to feel extra certain before you make the step to the Bachelor programme.
You graduated high school and want to explore a possible study in Jazz music.
You just want to find out if a life in music suits you.

The Jazz Preparatory Track is a compact course that will immerse you in important aspects of Jazz Education like Theory, Performance, Methodology (“how to…”). The JPT is first and foremost a performance course. The Theory and Method lessons are designed to support your performance skills. The method training has a special place in the course for knowing how to study enables you to effectively work on your own.

The lesson content ranges from general musical theory, functional harmony and ear training to improvisation techniques and the basics of singing, and lots more. Ensemble playing is in the center of the course – here all instrumental skills and theoretical knowledge comes together.

Summary:

Weekly band lessons, theory lessons and solfège lessons
20 Main subject lessons à 45 min. (main subject lessons will be scheduled in consultation with you and the teacher)
Acces to all in-house jazz workshops and masterclasses (as auditor)
Immediate contact with the conservatorium community
Also open for non-EEA residents

Practical information

Application/Questions:
Contact coordinator irja.zeper@zuyd.nl.
Note: For the Junior Preparatory Track application please follow the BA registration process!

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When

From September to March

Tuition Fee

The tuition fee for the 2024-2025 school year is € 2100,-