Apply for MA Improvisation
This information concerns the Master Programme in Music, with specialization in Improvisation Performance – The Composing Musician, (NoCoM Joint Study Programme). The next applications period is from 1 December 2025 to 15 January 2026. Studies start in the autumn of 2026.
Your application procedure
The next applications period is from 1 December 2025 to 15 January 2026. Studies start in the autumn of 2026. The following applied to students starting autumn 2025.
- Apply for the programme through universityadmissions.se
Application period: 2 December 2024 – 15 January 2025. - Submit your portfolio via SlideRoom 2 Dec 2024 – 27 January 2025
- Pay your application fee by 3 February 2025. If you are a citizen of the EU, an EEA country or Switzerland, you do not have to pay any enrolment or tuition fees. If you are exempt from paying the application fee, you must prove your exemption status by the same date. More information about fees on universityadmissions.se.
- Complete your eligibility no later than 3 February 2025. More information on general requirements for master's level studies.
- Interview: week 9, 2025
- Admission decision: 27 March 2025 through My pages on universityadmissions.se.
Late application
- Apply for the programme through universityadmissions.se
Application deadline: April 1st. - Submit your portfolio via SlideRoom no later than April 1st.
- Interview: April 11th, 2025
- Admission decision: mid-May through My pages on universityadmissions.se
Portfolio
The following concerned applicants wishing to start their studies in the autumn term 2025.
Selection of eligible applicants is based upon assessments of submitted portfolios and proposals. Send in all of your material through SlideRoom. You create a new account in SlideRoom yourself with your e-mail address and password of your choice.
All applicants are requested to send in:
Proposal for an independent masters project, 4000–5000 characters long, is required, including title of project, problem statement, method of artistic research, and references to related projects.
A live recorded video presentation of your music and yourself as a musician. NB! The video should contain 15–20 minutes of music.
Interview
The following concerned applicants wishing to start their studies in the autumn term 2025.
After reading and listening to the material you have submitted, we invite a limited amount of selected applicants to participate in an interview. This interview will be conducted via Zoom or other digital medium and is mandatory for all selected applicants.
Requirements for video recordings
The following concerned applicants wishing to start their studies in the autumn term 2025.
Submit your work samples via SlideRoom. Create a new account in SlideRoom yourself with your e-mail address and a password of your choice.
Read the instructions for the programme you want to apply for carefully and make sure you know which pieces/samples you need to record and upload.
- Start your videos by introducing yourself and what you are going to perform. For the videos to be considered valid, your face and hands must be visible at all times.
- The video must contain 15–20 minutes of music. Perform one or more samples per film. The total running time of your videos must not exceed 20 minutes (unless otherwise specified in the trial information).
- The sound must be of good quality without too much room acoustics and without distortion and noise.
- The films must have high image quality with good sharpness and light. The recordings must be uploaded in the following permitted file formats: MP4 or MOV. Other file formats are not allowed.
- If the instructions are not followed and the video files are found to have been modified in any way, your submitted work samples may be deemed invalid.
Eligibility and selection
Entry requirements
Bachelor degree of arts in music or equivalent, and musical knowledge and skills that are assessed at the admission test and are the basis for selection. Applicants must prove their knowledge of English: English 6/English B from Swedish Upper Secondary School or the equivalent level of an internationally recognized test, for example TOEFL, IELTS.
Selection
Selection of eligible applicants is based upon entrance tests.
Tuition fees
Students with citizenship in countries not within the EU/EEA, or Switzerland, are required to pay application and tuition fees for university studies in Sweden.
