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Welcome to the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music
The Carl Nielsen Academy of
Music is a lively and dynamic artistic educational institution which is, with
its clearly profiled programmes of classical music, jazz/rock, and folk music,
centrally placed in musical and cultural life. Artistically and pedagogically,
the professional environment is characterized by high quality, a great span, and
lots of curiosity, and the study environment is equally rich and
stimulating.
Education is a key function, but innovation and research
within the musical field also constitutes an important area of efforts at the
Carl Nielsen Academy of Music which in several ways contributes to the promotion
of music near and far. We have 145 active full-time students, and the large
group of teachers, which is almost equally divided between the categories
permanent and temporary teachers, holds a great number of prominent profiles in
the Danish musical scene.
In spite of the wide span, in terms of genres,
the academy appears as a coherent entity with quite its own profile, which is
undoubtedly due to the fact that all 3 lines are under the same roof. The degree
in folk music as well as the classical master degree as musician/performer, to
which is attached a 2-year solo performance class, are offered exclusively in
Odense, and are thus decidedly national educational offers.
More than 100
public concerts are a great part of the academy s window to the world. Add to
this a large number of conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes
frequently including participants from other institutions. Week-long seminars
and workshops, for instance, with some of contemporary music s most prominent
names as the composers Witold Lutoslawski, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Krzysztof
Penderecki, the jazz legend George Russell, and in the borderland between
classical and rhythmic music - people as Palle Mikkelborg and Gunther Schuller
have left profound traces and placed the academy in a central position in the
musical public .
For the last 10-15 years, international cooperation has
had a very high priority and is developing through channels such as the Nordic
Conservatory Council, the AEC, and not least the Association of Baltic Academies
of Music, ABAM, which is an operative and very close network of prominent
academies of music in the Baltic region.
Welcome to a music- and study
environment full of life in the tense field between tradition and
innovation.
Inger Allan, Rector |
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