Department of Music and Media, Piteå/Luleå University of Technology

The Department of Music and Media in Piteå, with circa 800 students, belongs to Luleå University of Technology, a modern University with around 6000 students. The activities of the University are distributed over four campuses, one of which is situated in the town of Piteå. The Department of Music and Media has partly grown out of the Framnäs high school, which started in the early 1950s. The town of Piteå and the Department of Music and Media are located in the northernmost part of Sweden, just south of the Arctic Circle.

Masterclasses, Recitals & Lectures - Department of Music and Media in Piteå;
Zoran Dukic, Tilman Hoppstock, Elena Papandreou, Roland Dyens, Marco Socias, Jukka Savijoki, Göran Söllscher, Mats Bergström, Erik Lammers, Gerald Garcia, Pentti Heldén, Per Skareng, Bengt & Börje, Diego Blanco/Gunilla von Bahr, Duo Lucia Sanchez-Jordan/Håkan Odeberg, Progetto Avanti, Per-Olof Hedlund, Göran Fristorp, Georg Bolin (luthier), Per Hallgren (luthier), Nils Larsson, Miro Simic, Stefan Löfvenius, Lars Petersson, Bo Strömberg, Anna-Lena Claesson, Kai Nieminen, Stockholm Guitar Quartet, Stockholm Guitar Trio, Guitars Unlimited, Roger Strömberg (luthier), Heiki Rousu (luthier), Alejandro (luthier), Erik Steen (Flamenco)

Masterclasses, at the Musical Festival of Piteå, with David Russell, Scott Tennant, Göran Söllscher and Zoran Dukic.

THE MASTERS PROGRAMME IN MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

The Masters programme in Musical Performance at the Department of Music and Media in Piteå, comprises two years of full-time study (120 ECTS credit points). Admission requirements include the degree of Bachelor of Music, or a corresponding degree in music. Majors are offered in conducting, composition, organ, and Spanish guitar. Admission to the programme requires high proficiency in your main instrument/subject. The studies will provide you with deepened artistic and technical insights as well as an increased knowledge of repertoire, enabling you to develop your ability to create and perform music in a personally expressive manner on a high professional level. In the course of your study, you will be offered opportunities to work with highly qualified professional musicians and ensembles, including the noted, newly formed chamber ensemble "Norrbotten NEO", stationed in Piteå.The studies will provide you with the knowledge and skills required for an international career within the field of music. Upon graduating as Master, you will be qualified for admission to the doctoral programme in Musical Performance.The teaching will be concentrated to ca. one week per month throughout the academic year. Parts of the teaching may be given as distance teaching. A large part of the teaching consists of individual lessons. Parts of the curriculum are common to all students of the programme, regardless of major. Seminars will be held, where artistic problems are presented and discussed, departing from ongoing degree works (theses).For more information about the Masters programme in Musical Performance, please contact Professor Sverker Jullander (sverker.jullander@ltu.se).
Spanish Guitar
With Spanish guitar as your major, you will be given the opportunity to develop your artistic personality as a guitarist in several ways, including various projects where you will work together with professional ensembles. You will also participate in master classes taught by guitarists of international renown and musicians associated with the School of Music.

For more information about guitar as major, please contact Professor Jan-Olof Eriksson (jan-olof.eriksson@ltu.se)

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Department of Music and Media, Piteå/Luleå University of Technology

Musikhögskolan Piteå/Department of Music and Media, Piteå
Snickargatan 20
Box 744
SE-941 28 Piteå
Sweden
Tel: Int +46 911 726 00
Fax: Int +46 911 726 10
E-mail: Musikhogskolan@ltu.se (registrator)
Home page internet:
http://www.ltu.se/web/muh

Academic calendar 2002/03
First term/semester
Mandatory orientation meeting: August 21
Registration:
Classes begin: September 2
Classes end: December 20
Last date of fall semester, if staying only for fall semester: January 17.
Christmas vacation:
December 21 through January 6
Second term/semester:
Classes begin: January 20
Classes end: June 6

Last date of spring semester: June 6, last date of ISEP benefitsNo tuition period(s):
October 28 through November 3
December 21 through January 6
Tests are given during and after courses. There are no set testing periods during the academic year.

The ECTS institutional coordinator
Ms Christina Nordström, international coordinator
Address: see above
Telephone: Int +46 911 726 02
Fax.no: Int +46 911 726 10
E-mail: Christina.Nordstrom@ltu.se
Office hours: 8.00 am - 4.30 pm


General description of the institution
The Department of Music and Media in Piteå has partly grown out of the Framnäs folk high school, started in the early 1950s
with music instructor education, later developed to music pedagogy and music teacher education at university
level, and partly from a special subject education and another subject, giving authority to teach music and the
other subject, started in 1976. The Department of Music and Media was founded as an independent institution within Luleå
University in 1978.
The first study programme given at the The Department of Music and Media was music education in 1978 (Music teacher programme).
In 1986 the programme for church musicians started, followed in 1989 by the postgraduate diploma programme
in organ, and in 1991 by the postgraduate diploma programme in composition. From 1988 sound engineers are
educated here.
The school is still growing with new education programmes. In 1994 two new programmes started, a postgraduate
programme for studio musicians (later only at undergraduate level) and the programme for music arrangement and
composition. In August 1995 another new programme started, media pedagogy. This was followed in August 1996
by the study programme for multi media producer, and in January 1998 the study programme for project leader in
music and culture started. In August 2000 the Radio Production programme started.There is also a postgraduate
programme in choir conducting. From the autumn term 2002 the Academic Media Centre with four specializations

Moreover, the The Department of Music and Media in Piteå provides a number of courses independent of study programmes, as well as postgraduate
courses for professionally active teachers and musicians.
Research is pursued in music pedagogy, organ, media and sound engineering. Artistic development within the music
area is another important part of the school’s policy as well as external activities such as concerts etc.
The Department of Music and Media in Piteå has about 500 students enrolled in the different study programmes and about 200 students
in independent courses.

School facilities
The Department of Music and Media is located in the town of Piteå, 57 kilometers south of Luleå, is housed in a beautiful building, the
first parts from 1985. Two concert halls with excellent acoustics, a Church Music department with five new pipe organs
including a 3-manual ”Grönlund” organ and a digital ”Allen” organ, synthesizers and computer equipment in the
Sound Engineering department and the modern spacious facilities throughout the building provides stimulating conditions.
The Media programmes are housed in a special building, very well provided with the latest equipment in that area.

Registration procedures:
Application dead-line: April 1
In addition to official transcripts and application, the Department of Music and Media requires an audition CD/DVD.
Please note that the Department of Music and Media only accepts students starting fall semester.

Courses offered in English
See separate enclosure.

Student life
Sports and the closeness to nature are also very important to students. The town of Piteå offers boating, alpine
and cross-country skiing, skating, swimming, golf, fishing and many other activities.
At the School you can enjoy, or participate in, concerts given at the school by our students or our teachers.
There are also many concerts, exhibitions, fairs, etc, ”down town”.
For those who are interested in history, there are a lot of interesting historical attractions in the vicinity of Piteå,
for instance the 15th century church in Öjebyn with its church town houses, an old iron foundry at Rosfors, museum,
old mills in Lillpite and Svensbyn, archeologic path in Jävre, etc etc.

Piteå, the town
For decades, Piteå’s famous bathing beaches have attracted attention. Few, indeed, can be the Swedes who have
not heard of the seaside at Piteå. And, of course, there is still plenty to say about the larget tourist complex in
the Nordic region. Yet Piteå is considerably more than just its beaches.
It has an archepelago of acknowledged beauty, villages stretching magnificently mile after mile, two large paper
mills, a plastics industry of international repute, a town centre which has managed to preserve the historical character
of its commercial past, a rich music life and other cultural attractions, a business park in a unique environment,
recreational opportunities…
The town arranges every year one of the most diversified music festivals of Sweden - THE MUSIC FESTIVAL OF PITEÅ.
The Music Festival of Piteå is intimately connected with the master classes of THE ACACEMY OF FRAMNÄS, which offers
high class teaching by esteemed musicians and singers from all over the world. The courses are arranged at the folk
high school of Framnäs, one of the largest in Sweden.