Application Instructions for your application

Applications for the summer semester 2026 are possible from 01.10. - 01.11.2025

Entrance exams for Meisterklasse:
06./07.01.2026

All other entrance exams:
08.01. - 14.01.2026

For the summer semester 2026, you have the following application options:

Bachelor (only in the case of a change of university, from the 2nd semester onwards):

Wind instruments/Percussion: clarinet, french horn, oboe, orchestral percussion, trumpet, tuba     

Conducting/correpetition: choral conducting, orchestral conducting, musical theatre correpetition

Jazz/Rock/Pop: double bass/bass guitar, piano (jazz/rock/pop), trombone (jazz/rock/pop), trumpet (jazz/rock/pop), saxophone (jazz/rock/pop), percussion (jazz/rock/pop)

Piano

Music Theory

String instruments: harp, double bass, viola, violin, violoncello             

Master:

Wind instruments/Percussion: clarinet, french horn, oboe, orchestral percussion, trumpet, tuba     

Conducting/Correpetition: correpetition for dance, choral conducting, instrumental correpetition/piano chamber music, musical theatre correpetition, orchestral conducting

Voice: Liedklasse       

Jazz/Rock/Pop: double bass/bass guitar, piano (jazz/rock/pop), trombone (jazz/rock/pop), trumpet (jazz/rock/pop), saxophone (jazz/rock/pop), percussion (jazz/rock/pop)

String instruments: harp, double bass, viola, violin, violoncello             

Master Orchestra Practice/Kurt Masur Akademie:

bassoon, oboe, double bass, viola    

Meisterklasse:

Wind instruments/Percussion: clarinet, french horn, oboe, orchestral percussion, trombone, trumpet, tuba     

Conducting/correpetition: choral conducting, orchestral conducting

Voice: opera, Lied/concert, chamber music / Liedklasse

Jazz/Rock/Pop: double bass/bass guitar, piano (jazz/rock/pop), trombone (jazz/rock/pop), trumpet (jazz/rock/pop), saxophone (jazz/rock/pop), percussion (jazz/rock/pop)

Piano

String instruments: harp, double bass, viola, violin, violoncello    

The application for the Master of Music Vocals Stage Practice Solo Dresden is possible from 01.10.2025 to 01.11.2025 for the winter semester 2026/27. 
 

Please select the appropriate semester in the application portal in order to submit your application.

Applications for the winter semester 2026/27 are possible from 01.03. - 31.03.2026

The Entrance exams will take place from 01.06. until 12.06.2025.

Bachelor's and state examination courses can only be started in the winter semester.

All courses of study have no age limit.

Information on how to appy for exchange studies at College of Music Dresden you can find here.

Tuition fees may be charged for the study programme. Please find out in advance whether this applies to you.

Tuition fees have to be paid, for example, by students who are not EU citizens and have not obtained their higher education entrance qualification in Germany or who have not been granted a permanent residence permit for Germany.

Tuition fees may also be charged for a second degree programme.

Please refer to the fee regulations under §5 (in German only)

Here you can find out about scholarship progammes (in German only)

All students must pay a semester fee each semester. This includes, among other things, the semester ticket. Further information can be found here.

All applicants have to pay a processing fee

Advice on questions relating to the subject is provided by the respective deans of the subject area.

Fakultät I

Fakultät II