Info momentvisit daysAgendaStuderenOn Wednesday, March 4, we are organizing an information session for prospective students, where you can talk to students, teachers, and study and learning track counsellors from all of our programmes.
You can make a reservation for a scheduled tour or information session. Below you will find a shortened version of the program, but it is best to base your plans on the information in the reservation form and the confirmation emails for your visit. Please pay particular attention to the locations.
You are welcome to visit all of our programmes, except for drama. You can visit the drama department during the open day on April 26.
9000 Gent
visual and audiovisual arts, music production, interior design, landscape and garden architecture, landscape development, curatorial studies, educational master
9000 Gent
classical music, composition
musical instrument making (Nederpolder)
jazz & pop (Paddenhoek)
contemporary music
2 years
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ICTUS and Spectra as coaches
During the contemporary music course, you will be able to compose and create your personal projects. In addition, together with your fellow students, you will also become part of the ensemble GAME, the Ghent Contemporary Music Ensemble. From concept to performance, you will play an active role in the creation and bringing to the stage of various performances. Two established contemporary music ensembles will coach you along the way: ICTUS and Spectra.
Taking to the stage
Both your personal projects and the GAME productions find a stage on a regular basis, both inside and outside the school walls. Through workshops and lectures, you come into contact with international experts and exchange ideas with contemporaries from various disciplines: musicians, composers, choreographers, theatre makers, visual and media artists. To this end, there is also a regular collaboration with the Research Studios of the Brussels dance school PARTS, founded and directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Progression of training
The emphasis is on your artistic practice. This consists of three parts. First, there is your master project, the project with which you register in the programme. You concretise this during the programme. Individual coaching tailored to your project ensures a good working and creative process. It leads to a jury concert in the MIRY Concert Hall, which is a full public concert in the second year of your master's programme.
Secondly, there are the GAME performances, in which you participate in productions by the ensemble. During about five group sessions a year, all students in the programme come together and receive feedback on the work from a mixed group of musicians from ICTUS and SPECTRA. These sessions form the third artistic practice component in your study programme. There is also an annual alternating production with the ensembles ICTUS and SPECTRA.
Theory feeds practice
In addition to practical training, the programme also offers a number of theoretical components. You will acquire knowledge in the fields of music analysis, music theatre, live electronics, video and performance, each in relation to contemporary music. This knowledge will feed your own practice, create new possibilities and inspire you. Finally, the learning line reflection and research introduces you to research practices in contemporary music in the first year of your master's programme. You will follow an interdisciplinary master's seminar with researchers from other departments (e.g. visual arts) within or outside the school, e.g. at the Orpheus Institute (centre for artistic research in music). You conclude the programme with a concert and a thesis, an essay linked to the content of your master's thesis.
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If you want to apply for an advanced master's degree, you will first take part in an orientation test.
Info momentvisit daysAgendaStuderenOn Wednesday, March 4, we are organizing an information session for prospective students, where you can talk to students, teachers, and study and learning track counsellors from all of our programmes.
You can make a reservation for a scheduled tour or information session. Below you will find a shortened version of the program, but it is best to base your plans on the information in the reservation form and the confirmation emails for your visit. Please pay particular attention to the locations.
You are welcome to visit all of our programmes, except for drama. You can visit the drama department during the open day on April 26.
9000 Gent
visual and audiovisual arts, music production, interior design, landscape and garden architecture, landscape development, curatorial studies, educational master
9000 Gent
classical music, composition
musical instrument making (Nederpolder)
jazz & pop (Paddenhoek)
Open dayvisit daysAgendaStuderenVisit our campuses and discover what studying at KASK & Conservatorium could look like for you. From 10:00 you can attend information sessions, talk to students and teachers or attend student presentations. You don't have to make a reservation, we welcome you with open arms.
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Ghent
graphic design, printmaking, illustration, autonomous design, painting, media art, installation, drawing, fine arts, animation film, film, photography, curatorial studies, landscape and garden design, landscape development
Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Ghent
music production, drama, textile design, fashion, sculpture, performance, educational master in audiovisual and visual arts, educational master in music and performing arts, interior design, interior design in distance education
9000 Ghent
classical music, composition, music theory, musical instrument building, contemporary music, musical performance practice, educational master in music and performing arts
Paddenhoek 12
9000 Ghent
jazz & pop
Info momentvisit daysAgendaStuderenWould you like to study art, music or design? During an info moment, you will get a tour of our campuses or talk to lecturers and study programme supervisors. You can combine your visit with the Graduation exhibition or quickly ask your final questions for the admission or orientation tests.
Info momentvisit daysAgendaStuderenDuring the info moment, you will be given a tour of our campuses or have a chat with lecturers. This info moment is aimed at prospective students of interior design, landscape architecture, landscape development, educational master's programmes and curatorial studies.
GAME, Sarah Wéry, MIRY Concert hallconcertAgendaArtistic activitiesThe students from the advanced master in contemporary music will present the results of a week-long workshop led by the multidisciplinary musician Sarah Wéry. The instrumental music, storytelling and sound installations may well blend together organically.
deadline dossier, session april, contemporary musicorientation testAgendaStuderenBased on your dossier, the orientation committee will decide whether or not to invite you for an intake interview or audition. We will notify you of this decision by e-mail.
The Necks, Going, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, GAME & Pak Yan Lau, MIRY Concert hallconcertAgendaArtistic activitiesOne of the most idiosyncratic bands in the southern hemisphere, The Necks, is coming to Ghent. The Australian trio has spent eighteen albums working on its unique sound. Their long, deceptively simple songs have always been their trademark, but on their latest album, Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (drums) and Lloyd Swanton (bass) seem to have suspended time completely. The mesmerising atmosphere they create is weightless and timeless.
Add to that the Brussels trio Going (João Lobo, Giovanni Di Domenico and Pak Yan Lau), as well as Japanese drummer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, and the result is a heady mix. The occasional quartet with double drums guarantees rhythmic fireworks. Pak Yan Lau from Going will open the evening by engaging in a musical dialogue with the GAME ensemble.
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9000 Gent
orientation test, session april, contemporary musicorientation testAgendaStuderenDuring this week, we organise orientation tests for the advanced master.
Based on your dossier, the orientation committee will decide whether or not to invite you for an intake interview or audition. We will notify you of this decision by e-mail.
deadline dossier, session july, contemporary musicorientation testAgendaStuderenBased on your dossier, the orientation committee will decide whether or not to invite you for an intake interview or audition. We will notify you of this decision by e-mail.
videoLees, kijk, luistereducationstudents contemporary music About the Ghent Advanced Master Ensemble
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- GAME & Diana Soh, rehearsal, 19.10.2023, video: Ties Kalker
- photo: Leontien Allemeersch
- photo: Rudy Carlier