Piano

Piano

As a pianist, you will receive tuition in your principal study, repetition, chamber music, accompaniment, and pedagogy. You will also receive job orientated tuition to develop your skills in piano ensembles, sight-reading, transposition and figuration.

Interdisciplinarity is an important part of chamber music. In the chamber music programme, you will develop as an accompanist, soloist and musician in smaller ensembles. You will have the opportunity to play with both students and teachers from other departments. You will also be able to increase your repertory within opera and voice together with the voice students.

The Master's Programme in Repetiteurship (piano)

The Master’s Programme in Repetiteurship (Piano) is for pianists who wish to specialise in working with opera and acquire the specialised skills associated with this.

As a student on the Master’s Programme in Repetiteurship, you will receive instruction in coaching, recitative, piano, direction, song, language and diction, collaborating with the Royal Opera Academy and The Royal Danish Theatre.

The teaching is provided by the staff of the Academy and by répétiteurs associated with The Royal Danish Opera and The Royal Opera Academy.

All students in the Master’s Programme in Repetiteurship are assigned a mentor, who will help organise the individual’s course of study based on the student’s skills and abilities. The programme is organised in such a way as to allow you, as far as possible, to attend instruction at RDAM and the Royal Opera Academy in the subjects Vocal Theory, Italian, Coaching, Principal Study Voice and History of the Opera.

Collaboration with The Royal Danish Theatre

As a student on the Master’s Programme in Repetiteurship, you will attend rehearsals, etc., at the Royal Danish Opera. You will have an opportunity to work with students and teachers from the Academy’s vocal department, including the Royal Opera Academy.

The scope and nature of the opportunities for the internship will depend on the individual’s skills and abilities, development and practical considerations.

Possibilities for further specialisation

The two-year programme is a complete Master’s degree.
However, the programme also aims to prepare you for further studies, either in the Academy’s soloist class (Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Music) in chamber music/accompaniment, or within the Young Artist Programme as Opera Répétiteur, which is currently under preparation by the Royal Danish Opera and is planned to commence in September 2021.
Separate auditions will be held for these programmes.

Special Soloist Programme

The piano students can take a special soloist programme with accompaniment and chamber music. During the two year programme, you will specialise in two of the subjects.