Career Skills HKB Music

• How do I organise myself properly?
• How do I best prepare for competitions, performances etc.?
• How do I present myself efficiently  orally, in writing and in text and images?
• How do I carry out my own projects: logistically, musically, financially, medially?

Regardless of whether you are studying classical music, jazz, sound arts, composition or music & movement, you will inevitably be confronted with such questions at the beginning of your professional career as a musician.

Career Skills HKB is the interface between studying, practice and the profession. We focus on the different framework conditions of the genres - the jazz community, for example operates differently compared to the sound arts or classical music community. With experienced guests from the respective fields, a large network of foundations, institutions, alumnae partners and lecturers as well as our student agency KULT, we are close to the pulse of musical life.

This broad topic and the corresponding skills are specifically taught in four subject areas:

You can find our wide range of (teaching) formats at the following three locations:

At the Music Division:

• Courses and workshops: Personal Career Planning, Business Week
• «Call for projects»: Ammann Falb Scholarship, Scratch – in cooperation with Musikfestival Bern
• Competitions: Recording session in the recording studio
• Individual consultations resp. coaching (performances, projects, applications, competitions, etc.)

At the Y Institut:

• Courses and seminars, a.o. Cultural Entrepreneurship: Y-Skills

 
At the Business Lab:

• Coaching Entrepreneurship

As part of Career Skills HKB Music, the student agency KULT arranges paid artistic assignments primarily for music students.