Royal Conservatory of Ghent
| The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and the Royal Conservatory constitute the school of arts of HOGENT and Howest. The school brings together talented and motivated students with outstanding educators, active artists, designers and theorists in art and design from all over the world. The mission statement of the school defines its main tasks: development of the arts, education and research in an international perspective. |
The varied range of artistic disciplines in KASK & Conservatory, makes for reciprocally inspiring and relatively open training programs. As interdisciplinarity in the arts becomes ever more important, there is room for cross-fertilization in our training program. Also, students will be introduced to some of the numerous theoretical and artistic research projects our lecturers are engaged in. |
| Two of the KASK & Conservatory campuses are located at the epicenter of Ghent. Ghent can boast a reputation within the international art world and is traditionally very popular with students. Not only does this artistic climate form a fertile environment for KASK & Conservatory, our educational institution also actively participates in it with the organisation of exhibitions, concerts, festivals, lectures and film screenings, among other things.Campus Buda in Kortrijk was added in 2018. |
| Bachelor and master of Music | |
| Performing Music | |
| Classical Music | For the last thousand years or so, Western classical music culture has been based mainly on the turning into sound of a code written in graphic signs. This code has evolved over the centuries, and many keys to it have been written down – sometimes indirectly – while others were passed down in oral traditions. |
| Jazz / Pop | The jazz/pop programme’s name says it all: it offers the opportunity to study jazz but also – as the only school in Flanders – pop music. The programme’s core is of course making music. |
| Composing music | |
| Composition | Music does not just appear out of thin air. It is thought up and played on existing or newly invented instruments, improvised, communicated or, after much mulling over, written down or recorded on an electronic medium. |
| Music Production | All sorts of sound recording media make music accessible to everyone all the time. Ever since Thomas Edison laid the foundations for the mechanical reproduction of sound in 1877, recording and playback devices have developed ever more rapidly, effectively and fundamentally revolutionizing the world of music in general |
| Composition for Screen (InMICS) | The International Master in Composition for Screen (InMICS) is a joint master’s degree programme dedicated to international students wishing to work as composers for audiovisual media. |
| Musical instrument making | The musical instrument making major studies the morphology of musical instruments in view of the construction, reconstruction and preservation of these fascinating artefacts |
| Music Theory / Notation (master only) | n concert halls and elevators, supermarkets and restaurants; from symphony to ringtone, live or on CD, over the internet, on the radio or on an iPod … Music, in all its forms and more than ever before, is everywhere nowadays |
| Bachelor and master Visual Arts | |
| Fine Arts | Within the School of Arts, the fine arts programme has traditionally taken up a central position. It is organized in six majors or studios: painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance and media art |
| Performance | Are you a performer? Would you like to learn to use your voice or your body in your work, or do you already do that? Today, artists are using their own bodies and those of others more and more often in their work. They create performances. |
| Advanced Master Contemporary Music | Those choosing the Advanced Master in Contemporary Music programme at the Royal Conservatory / School of Arts Ghent work under the guidance of the Ictus and SPECTRA contemporary music ensembles, on projects with an emphatic focus on recently composed music. Students specialize in contemporary music, as soloists or members of an ensemble. |
| Postgraduate Musical Performance Practice | Finished a Masters in Music but still looking to enhance your skills and to have vistas opened up? Our postgraduate programme Musical Performance Practice shares just such an urge for excellence. |
| Postgraduate Soloist Classical Music | Finished a Masters in Music but still looking to enhance your skills? Our postgraduate programme Soloist Classical Music shares just such an urge for excellence |
| Postgraduate Digital Storytelling | The English-taught postgraduate Digital Storytelling is a programme aimed at the storytellers of tomorrow. Creatives who want to explore in audio, video, photo and text what the internet has to offer for storytellers. |
| European Postgraduate in Arts in Sound (EPAS) | EPAS is a one-year intensive education in the creative potential of sound both of itself and as part of a multi media practice. |
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