Capital of Talent
At over 143,000 students, Berlin is Germany's biggest university town. Four universities, two art schools, three universities of applied sciences and one cooperative education program offer music programs (as of Winter semester 2010/11)
- The Berlin University of the Arts
(Universität der Künste - UdK), School of Music
Offers programs for orchestra musicians, conductors, composers and church musicians. It is also one of two universities in Germany that grant degrees in audio engineering. - Hanns Eisler Academy of Music
Offers training in classical performance, conducting and directing, musical theater, composition, accompaniment and vocal coaching as a répétiteur, instrumentation and arranging, voice, jazz and popular music. - Humboldt University of Berlin , Musicology Department including the Popular Music Research Center (Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik)
- Freie Universität Berlin , Institute for Musicology
Courses of study including music theory of antiquity, aesthetics of music, history of notation, composition, works, styles and genres, as well as the history of performance and social history of music through the present. - Film and Television University "Konrad Wolf" (Potsdam/Babelsberg)
- Academy of the Arts (Akademie der Künste)
The "Young Academy" fellowship program has existed since 1993. - Macromedia University for Media and Communication (Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation - MHMK)
MHMK offers vocational programs that link all aspects of digital and analog media production with management.
Education and training
- Erich Pommer Institute (evening courses in music financing and management)
- Berlin Music Academy (Landesmusikakademie)
- 155 music schools for amateur and semi-professional musicians
- The Music Therapy Institute
- Orchestra academies and seminars of the Deutsche Oper and the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Berlin Rock & Pop College, Berlin Jazz College, Leo Borchard Music College and other private establishments
- L4, Institute for Digital Communication (music + media management)
- SAE Insitute - Audio engineering. Duration: 12 to 21 months
- media academie - Event managagement and organization, incl. stage and sound equipment, etc.
- Dr. Gawelat cimdata GmbH - Sound and video design
