Below you will find information and announcements (in German only) on special programmes offered at the University of Münster. These include applied music psychology, "FreiSpiel", music competitions and special support measures for students.
Every year, the GWK awards two sponsorship prizes for music. Each is endowed with 5,000 euros and inclusion in a sponsorship program. The prizes are awarded to young musicians who perform well above average.
Applicants must have been born in Westphalia-Lippe, have lived there for at least two years, be studying at a university (junior or full student) or have completed their university degree in the region. They must not be older than 27 years of age at the application deadline. The competition is aimed at soloists (no ensembles, no organ, no conducting).
The prizes will be awarded by a jury of experts. The elimination takes place in a public audition in two rounds. The competition will be held from March 14 to 16 at the Musikhochschule Münster.
Public audition at the Münster University of Music: March 14 - 16, 2024
Application deadline: Friday, February 16, 2024 (postmark)
Info: www.gwk-online.de
Students at WWU Münster can now apply for ProTalent scholarships for the 2023/24 funding year. The program is aimed at WWU students who have achieved good to very good academic results to date, as well as first-year students whose previous performance suggests that they will be successful in their studies. In addition, personal career, social commitment and special social, family or personal circumstances are taken into account.
The online application is possible up to and including July 14, 2023. The funding year begins on October 1, 2023.
In 2020, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation reacted quickly to the Corona pandemic and addressed the precarious situation that had arisen for many students with special funding. In December 2020, the Foundation Board made another two million euros available to provide immediate and unbureaucratic help to music students in need at 43 music colleges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2022, too, the help did not stop.
A total of 327 applications from music students in Münster were approved by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and 159,450 euros were paid out to alleviate corona-related financial hardship. The Münster University of Music would like to express its sincere thanks to the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for its appreciation of music and culture in this society and especially for the financial support of its students!
With KAP.WWU, the Career Service of the WWU provides a job and internship portal in which WWU students can create their own profiles in order to attract the attention of employers*. Students of the University of Music are also expressly invited to take advantage of this offer!
At first glance, music and physics don't have much in common - but music student Julia Bowkunnyi has ideas about how to combine the two disciplines. She wants to use her guitar to explain the laws of thermodynamics through music. How can that be done? She is researching this as part of the FreiSpiel project at the University of Münster's School of Music. Since this semester, students there have been able to participate in the newly developed format in the open elective area of their studies. The interest is great: In addition to Julia Bowkunnyi, seven other musicians are pursuing ideas for a productive exchange of different subjects in the pilot phase.
Learn more about the Interdisciplinary Format FreiSpiel here.
The singer-songwriter produces songs to texts by the American poet Emily Dickinson, the prospective guitar teacher composes rhythmic etudes for his future students, a brass player creates arrangements of baroque music for his instruments.
Such creative processes are what the new teaching format FreiSpiel is all about. Starting in the coming winter semester at the University of Music (FB 15), students will be called upon to bring the content areas of music studies, which are usually taught separately, into a productive exchange with one another. This is done with the intention of opening up the immense synergy potentials of the so-called minor subjects to the students. The students are supervised and accompanied by a self-selected commission of teachers from the conservatory. Each FreiSpiel ends with a performance followed by a workshop discussion. In the medium term, the aim is to expand FreiSpiel through interdisciplinary collaboration with the other departments of the WWU.
Since the winter semester 2014/15, the University of Music offers a unique holistic approach to music education: Applied Music Psychology. Music Psychology, as applied in Münster, deals with the individual backgrounds of music making, e.g. stage fright and motivational problems. Fluctuating performances and "daily forms" can be very unsettling for musicians. With us, they get to know themselves better and try out various "adjusting screws" to achieve a better performance. - Approaches that have been cultivated for a long time in sports science, for example. Read more
in the article in the WWU newspaper wissen.leben from December 2014.