Hi Katy,

 

There's an MA in Kodaly Studies being offered by the Kodaly Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary, part of the Liszt Academy. It looks like a rigorous program, and the audition requires a lot of preparation.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best,

Tamar Bloch

Katy,

 

I understand that you have a prime interest in studying somewhere in mainland Europe, but I highly recommend that you check out the masters degree offerings at the Institute of Education (IoE), University of London.  In Europe, IoE is regarded in the same way we regard the Schools of Education at Harvard and Stanford--elite status.  Students from several continents and many countries take degrees there.  Professor Graham Welch, PhD, a close friend of mine, is Chair of Music Education and is well known internationally for his voice research (especially for research into children's voices) and for learning-teaching orientations that are at the leading edge of all the educational enterprises in the world.  The same can be said of Dr. Colin Durrant, PhD, Professor of Choral Music and Conducting, also a close friend and leading-edge choral conductor-teacher. 

 

[Graham and I co-edited the comprehensive 3-volume, 18-author 'encyclopedia' of evidence-based voice knowledge titled, Bodymind and Voice: Foundations of Voice Education.  It literally covers just about everything you'd ever want to know about human voices.  info (and ordering) can be found at www.voicecarenetwork.org.  The 18 authors include three ENT physicians, an allergist-immunologist, an endocrinologist, an audiologist, a speech pathologist, a specialist voice educator (me), a child voice researcher (Graham), a certified Alexander Technique teacher, the only evidence-based researchers in male adolescent changing voices and female adolescent changing voices, a child voice specialist, a very early music education specialist, and four choral conductors/voice teachers.]

 

Other choral 'schools' of which I am aware are at the University of Helsinki (I've met the main choral prof there, but cannot now recall his name), and the world's only (to my knowledge) choral acoustician, Sten Ternström, is now at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. Sten and I are on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and about two years ago, he contributed an update article on research in choral acoustics to that online journal.  It can be downloaded at www.choralresearch.org

 

Professor Graham Welch, PhD
IoEUL Chair of Music Education
Department of Arts and Humanities

Deputy Dean, Faculty of Culture & Pedagogy

Institute of Education
University of London
20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

 

g.welch(a)ioe.ac.uk
office: +44 20 7612 6550 (Rachel Ryder, Administrator)
fax: +44 20 7612 6741

President Elect, International Society for Music Education (ISME)

 

Chair, Society for Education, Psychology and Music Research (SEPMRE)
http://pom.sagepub.com/

I wish you the best in your search, Katy.  Be well.

 

Leon
 

Check the website for the Estonian Academy of Music (in Tallinn).  Excellent program in choral conducting.  Not sure which of their programs are taught in English.

A slight correction to Leon's message: the choral program in Helsinki is at the Sibelius Academy, not the University of Helsinki. The Professor of Choir Conducting here is Matti Hyökki (Hyokki with an umlaut). www.siba.fi

 

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Regards,

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

Helsinki, Finland

 

"Nil significat nisi oscillat. Du vap. Du vap. Du vap."

Some years before I did my Master in Choral Education at Roehampton University in London but as you prefer an institute of continental Europe, you may want to check these two Bachelor programs in Choral Conducting in English language:

 

1) Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)

 

and

 

2) University of Debrecen (Hungary)