Newly positioned southern German music academies
In future, musical skills are to be taught selectively in five state centers in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. However, the core areas of orchestra, piano and singing will continue to be taught everywhere.
In Freiburg, a teaching and research center for music with a strong focus on musical practice and the subjects of musicology, music theory, music pedagogy and music physiology is being established. In Karlsruhe, the focus is on music journalism and music informatics. The Institute for Music Journalism, which offers multimedia training, and the Institute for Music Informatics have joined forces in this regional center.
A large conducting center is being built in Mannheim, covering choral conducting, orchestra/symphonic music, opera, avant-garde, conducting (amateur) wind orchestras and conducting jazz ensembles. Stuttgart is home to the "Campus Gegenwart" with a cross-disciplinary combination of the various artistic disciplines in art, research and education. New music (with electronic music/computer music, vocal art, new music theater), composition, jazz/pop, performing arts, speech art, musicology/music theory are brought together. The Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Media Arts, creative artists and the independent scene are also included.
In Trossingen, the focus is on the areas of music - design - performance. This takes into account the generation of digital natives, who often have a different musical socialization than the traditional clientele of a music university. Cooperation with Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences is a key component of this regional center.
The establishment of the regional centers is intended to be permanent. In order to finance them, a pool of positions has been created for which the state is providing five W3 professorships and a further five mid-level positions (E13) for five years. The universities of music each contribute two W3 positions to this pool.
