Official Master’s Degree “Barcelona Jazz Master”

ECTS	60
Specialties	Performance and Composition
Duration	September 8, 2025 - July 10, 2026
Teaching language	Catalan, Spanish, English
Mode	Attending. It is necessary to attend 80% of classes in order to be evaluated
Fees credit	68.95 €

Registration calendar

MASTER’S PRE-ENROLMENT ACADEMIC YEAR 2026–2027
			Acceptance of candidates
1st round	From February 2 to March 25		April 15**
2nd round	From May 4 to May 24		June 9**
1st round enrolment: Once the pre-enrolment has been accepted, from April 22 to April 29
2nd round enrolment: Once the pre-enrolment has been accepted, from June 17 to June 25
**The Master’s Degree in Lied selects students through auditions held during the first week of June. Results are announced on 15/6.
Pre-enrolling in the first call gives you more time to complete the different administrative procedures. We recommend not waiting until the last days of each deadline in order to have enough time in case any document is missing. Applications will be answered within a maximum period of ten working days. Once the pre-enrolment has been completed and validated by the corresponding Master’s Management Units, it will be forwarded to the coordination teams and academic directors of each Master’s programme for assessment, selection and, if applicable, authorisation of enrolment. The Master’s Degree in Lied selects its students through a face-to-face audition to be held on: o Friday, June 5, 1st test o Saturday, June 6, 2nd test Results are announced on June 15; the Victoria de los Ángeles scholarships are awarded on June 25; and enrolments take place during the last week of June.
MASTER’S ENROLMENT ACADEMIC YEAR 2026–27
2nd year	From July 20 to July 23	Online Start: 9:00 a.m. End: 11:59 p.m. Telephone support, working days from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
1st year	From April 22 to April 29 From June 17 to June 25

The Master’s Degree in Advanced Artistic Studies in Jazz and Modern Music Performance and Composition “Barcelona Jazz Master” focuses on the artistic development of students with the utmost rigour and level of excellence.

The two specialisations offered by the programme are built around the student’s individual study project and their Final Master’s Project (TFM), which must revolve around a theme that they wish to explore in depth and which must be detailed in the admission process.

The written work must be fully linked to the practical part.

This master’s degree can be completed in a single academic year or in a maximum of three.

Access and admission

To be admitted to the Barcelona Jazz Master’s you must have a higher education degree.

This qualification may consist of:

• An official higher degree in musical artistic education issued in Spain.

• An official bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, issued by an institution of the European Higher Education Area, which allows access to master’s degree courses in the country of issue.

• A degree from systems outside the European Higher Education Area without the need for official recognition of their qualifications (see specific cases), subject to verification by the competent educational administration that the qualification accredits an equivalent level of training.
  Access by this route does not, under any circumstances, validate the qualification provided.

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Documentation to be submitted

1. Audiovisual portfolio

• For the interpretation specialty:
  
  Video with three pieces between 15 and 20 minutes long in total (or three videos, with each of the pieces separately) where the applicant’s artistic identity is shown through own arrangements or own compositions. The recording must be less than one year old and must not contain any editing.
  The applicant’s face and hands must be visible.
  The pieces may be solo or with accompaniment. In the case of polyphonic instruments (guitar and piano), at least one piece must be solo.

• For the composition specialty:
  
  Video with three pieces between 15 and 20 minutes long in total (or three videos, with each of the pieces separately) where the applicant’s artistic identity is shown through own compositions.
  Music score of each piece, using a musical notation program.

2. Motivation letter: brief personal presentation of the applicant, detailing his or her reasons for pursuing the master’s degree and his or her expectations.

3. Master’s research plan, which should include:

• Introduction explaining the applicant’s artistic interests that he/she intends to work on in the master’s program and mentioning some of the artists he/she has as a reference.

• Careful and complete description and justification of the research topic to be developed during the master’s degree.

• Approach to the methodology to be used.

• Estimation of how the completion of the master’s degree can help the applicant in his or her artistic and professional future.

4. Resume, with basic personal information, photograph, academic, professional and language proficiency data.

5. Copy of ID card / passport

6. Copy of higher education degree

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Admission criteria

The admission procedure has two phases:

Phase 1: assessment
The following documents will be assessed by the selection board:

1. The audiovisual portfolio

• In the interpretation specialty:
  
  – The technical instrumental level.
  – The quality in the interpretation of the works.
  – Phrasing, creativity and coherence in improvisation.
  – Knowledge of jazz language.
  – Interaction and musical communication with the group.
  – Tempo and rhythmic precision.

• In the composition specialty:
  
  – Creativity and musicality in the compositions.
  – Harmonic, melodic and rhythmic originality.
  – Formal coherence.
  – Mastery of compositional and musical resources.
  – Mastery of instrumentation.

2. The motivation letter

3. The Master’s research plan

If the selection board considers that the applicant has a good profile, he/she will be invited to phase 2, which is carried out telematically..

Phase 2: Test and interview

1. Written test (online), consisting of:

• Harmonic and melodic transcription of a fragment.

• Harmonic analysis of a fragment and say the associated scales.

• Performance of a 5-voice spread over a given progression.

2. Interview (online), where the board may ask for a verbal explanation of some elements described in the documentation of the admission process or aspects that the board has not been able to see in the documentation submitted. On the other hand, the applicant will be able to raise any doubts he/she may have about the master’s degree..

Curriculum

The curriculum is focused on excellence in the interpretative and compositional field through a deep work with the instrument, creativity, ensemble dynamics and external commissions. It also allows contact and deepening in one of the autochthonous styles, such as flamenco, through elective subjects.

Specialty InterpretationSpecialty Composition

Subjects	ECTS
Individual speciality teaching	20
Instrumental interpretation 1	10
Instrumental interpretationl 2	10
Professional Practices
Artistic comissions	4
Master Work / End Concert
TFM i CFM	9
Interpretive set practice
Ensemble	7
Additional theoretical training	14
Creative composition	5
Advance arrangements	5
Artistic research	4
Optatives	6
Analysis and transcription	3
Rhythmic improvisation	3
MIDI Orchestration	3
Flamenco Analysis	3
Flamenco Companion	3
Flamenco composition techniques	3
Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice	3
Professional Promotion	3
Audio recording and post-production techniques	3

Subjects	ECTS
Individual speciality teaching	20
Artistic composition 1	10
Artistic composition 2	10
Professional Practices
Artistic comissions	4
Master Work / End Concert
TFM i CFM	9
Interpretive set practice
Improvisation	4
Additional theoretical training	17
Creative composition	5
Advance arrangements	5
Artistic research	4
Composition Seminar	3
Optatives	6
Analysis and transcription	3
Rhythmic improvisation	3
MIDI Orchestration	3
Flamenco Analysis	3
Flamenco Companion	3
Flamenco composition techniques	3
Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice	3
Professional Promotion	3
Audio recording and post-production techniques	3

Objectives and competencies

The general objective of the Artistic Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Jazz and Modern Music is to train professionals with a high degree of specialisation.

Specifically, the master’s degree aims to:

• Promote in each student a process of continuous and high quality artistic development.

• Provide the necessary tools to deepen musical research.

• Encourage the development of students and their consolidation as musicians, expanding and integrating the intellectual, emotional and physical resources that will be reflected in the practice of musical excellence, and planning and implementing personal projects.

• To provide an environment of learning and reflection that allows the student’s potential to be recognised and developed in order to overcome limits.

Who is it for

The master’s degree is aimed at students who want to:

• Develop their artistic identity and research and deepen their knowledge of a topic of importance to the musical artistic community.

• Access advanced training and professional specialisation in the field of performance and musical composition in Jazz and Modern Music.

• Prepare for entry into the professional world of work at the highest level and acquire the knowledge, flexibility, imagination and assessment tools necessary to contribute to the development of a professional practice in today’s artistic life.

Professors

The Master’s is taught by professors from the Department of Jazz and Modern Music and by external teachers with a recognized artistic and professional background.

Coordination : Lluc Casares and Néstor Giménez

Teaching staff

Name	Subject
Alcina, Ismael	Instrumental Performance: Bass
Asensio, Joan	Flamenco Analysis; Flamenco accompaniment
Barbal, Margarida	Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice
Benítez, Gorka	Instrumental Performance: Flute; Instrumental Performance: Saxophone
Bover, Albert	Instrumental Performance: Piano; Improvisation
Calvo, Bruno	Instrumental Performance: Trumpet
Canela, Carme	Instrumental Performance: Voice
Cañizares, Juan Manuel	Flamenco Composition Techniques
Capella, Francesc	Instrumental Performance: Piano; Improvisation; Composition
Carod, Apel·les	Instrumental Performance: Fiddle
Casares, Lluc	Combo, Improvisation. Instrumental Performance: Saxophone and Clarinet
Cassanyes, Àlex	Arrangements and orchestration
Conangla, Ferran	Audio recording and post-production techniques
Díaz, Joan	Composition; Instrumental Performance: Piano; Instrumental Performance: Keyboards
Eizaguirre, Unai	Instrumental Performance: JiMM Guitar
Figuerola, Xavier	Instrumental Performance: Clarinet; Instrumental Performance: Saxophone
Finger, Ana	Instrumental Performance: Voice
Font, Gerard	Audio recording and post-production techniques
Forcada, Daniel	Instrumental Performance: Percussion
Giménez, Néstor	Composition
Guinovart, Albert	Fundamentals of instrumentation and orchestration
Gómez, David	Instrumental Performance: Drums
González, Arecio	Combo, MIDI Orchestration
Ibáñez, Xavier	Instrumental Performance: Keyboards; Combo
Mercader, Nan	Instrumental Performance: Percussion
Mesa, Jorge	Flamenco Rhythm
Molina, Antonio	Instrumental Performance: JiMM Guitar
Monné, Joan	Interpretació Performance: Piano
Mora, Mireia	Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice
Pérez, Dani	Instrumental Performance: Guitar; Improvisation
Pujals, Alba	Instrumental Performance: Jazz Trombone
Reig, Irene	Combo
Reinón, Eladio	Instrumental Performance: Saxophone
Rodriguez, Jordi	Flamenco Rhythm
Rossy, Mario	Instrumental Performance: Double Bass; Analysis and transcription
Sánchez, Joaquin	Flamenco composition techniques
Sanmartí, Joan	Composition; Instrumental Performance: Guitar
Sauqué, Joan Mar	Instrumental Performance: Trumpet
Sampablo, Alberto	Professional Promotion
Saña, Oriol	Instrumental performance: jazz violin
Tancredi, Eduardo	Instrumental Performance: Piano
Terraza, Ignasi	Instrumental Performance: Piano; Improvisation
Vidal, Joan	Composition techniques and counterpoint
Vidal, Lluís	Composition; Instrumental performance: Piano
Xirgu, David	Instrumental Performance: Drums
Zamora, Ignasi	Instrumental Performance: Electric Bass

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