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
Fringes | Registration | Enrollment |
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Second year students | From July 16 to July 18, 2025 | |
New students (1st term) | From February 17 to April 4, 2025 | From April 22 to 30, 2025 |
New students (2nd term) | From May 5 to June 13, 2025 *The pre-enrollment period for the official Master's in Lied “Victoria de los Ángeles” ends on June 4th | From June 25 to 30, 2025 |
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.
To be admitted to the Barcelona Jazz Master’s you must have a higher education degree.
This qualification may consist of:
Documentation to be submitted
1. Audiovisual portfolio
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:
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
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
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:
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..
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.
Subjects | ECTS |
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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 |
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:
The master’s degree is aimed at students who want to:
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 |
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Alcina, Ismael | Instrumental Performance: Bass |
Asensio, Joan | Flamenco Analysis; Flamenco accompaniment |
Baecker, Rolf | Documentary Resources and Research Methodologies |
Barbal, Margarida | Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice |
Benítez, Gorka | Instrumental Performance: Flute; Instrumental Performance: Saxophone |
Bover, Albert | Instrumental Performance: Piano; Improvisation |
Camps, Jonathan | Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice |
Canela, Carme | Instrumental Performance: Voice |
Capella, Francesc | Instrumental Performance: Piano; Improvisation; Composition |
Carod, Apel·les | Instrumental Performance: Fiddle |
Casares, Lluc | Combo; Improvisation |
Cassanyes, Àlex | Arrangements and orchestration |
Conangla, Ferran | Audio recording and post-production techniques |
Díaz, Joan | Composition; Instrumental Performance: Piano; Instrumental Performance: Keyboards |
Dubuclet, John | Instrumental Performance: Trombone |
Figuerola, Xavier | Instrumental Performance: Clarinet; Instrumental Performance: Saxophone |
Fina, Xavier | Professional Promotion |
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 |
Ibáñez, Xavier | Instrumental Performance: Keyboards; Combo |
Krause, Jo | Instrumental Performance: Drums |
Lara, Mireia | Instrumental Performance: Voice |
Martin, Carlos | Instrumental Performance: Trombone |
Mercader, Nan | Instrumental Performance: Percussion |
Monné, Joan | Interpretació Performance: Piano |
Mora, Mireia | Physiological and psychological aspects of interpretive practice |
Pérez, Dani | Instrumental Performance: Guitar; Improvisation |
Prieto, Jesús | Instrumental Performance: Guitar |
Reig, Irene | Combo |
Reinón, Eladio | Instrumental Performance: Saxophone |
Rossy, Mario | Instrumental Performance: Double Bass; Analysis and transcription |
Sánchez, Joaquín | Flamenco composition techniques |
Sanmartí, Joan | Composition; Instrumental Performance: Guitar |
Sanpablo, Alberto | Professional Promotion |
Saña, Oriol | Instrumental performance: jazz violin |
Simon, Matthew | Instrumental Performance: Trumpet |
Tancredi, Eduardo | Instrumental Performance: Piano |
Tapscott, Alfred | MIDI |
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 |