Jazz
Jazz at the ZHdK combines creativity, topicality and individualization with musical excellence and stylistic diversity in an active Swiss scene.
The education offered in the Jazz and Pop profile includes courses in the degree programmes Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy and Master of Arts in Music Performance.
Music studies at ZHdK take place at one of the largest integrated art colleges in Europe. Students are guided by excellent lecturers and benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure. The flexible and permeable study programme and the broad networking with the professional world offer optimal conditions for the start of a professional career.
Degree programmes
Mehrspur
Faculty
Learn from the best: First-class lecturers design the lessons and accompany you in your development.
Around studies
Highlights
Extraordinary musicians: Lecturer Nik Bärtsch and Resident Lecturer 2023 Eivind Aarset
Dynamic duo: a brief portrait of the new lecturers Arthur Hnatek and Mareike Wiening
Every May and September, the jazz and pop students crown their Bachelor's degree with a final concert. The young musicians present their music on the Mehrspur stage with their own band. The concerts can be experienced on site and via livestream.
Events
Fancy the stage? With the «Mehrspur», Jazz and Pop in the Toni-Areal has its own music club including a bar. This provides a stage for all practice-related study modules as well as a parallel public cultural program.
Students, lecturers and alumni together form the ensembles, which repeatedly perform in various formations and projects. The Klub Mehrspur provides insight into the highlights of the music scene: whether unique experimental music lab or internationally successful bands, whether jazz, electro, indie pop, singer songwriter, future pop or soul: the vocabulary is shaped by the ZHdK's Jazz & Pop profile.
Click here for the program. Current pictures and video impressions of the concerts are regularly shown on Instagram.