Vocal Performance Jazz/Rock/Pop
Studying Vocal Performance at the Dresden University of Music offers a practice-oriented education with high artistic standards. The interdisciplinary networking among the other fields of study in Jazz/Rock/Pop creates space for individual projects with a future.
Your path to a successful career
Concert and Stage Experience
Studying Vocal Performance at the Dresden University of Music offers a practice-oriented education with high artistic standards. The interdisciplinary networking among the other fields of study in Jazz/Rock/Pop creates space for individual projects with a future.
Main Subject Jazz/Rock/Pop Vocal Performance
The main subject comprises the subjects rhythm (microtiming, phrasing, articulation, offbeat/onbeat, passing, metric/free design), melodic/harmonic (jazz specific harmonics, vertical or horizontal improvisation, guide-ton method, singing out changes, melodic embellishment, chord progressions, scales, permutations), sound (perception of one's own voice, timbres, scat singing, free improvisation, instrumental singing, ranting/poetry), correpetition, dramatic training, subject-specific stage dance, compositional singing and vocal improvisation. On the basis of jazz stylistics, space is given to the individual development in different styles.
Flexible Study Contents Promote Individuality
The programme is rounded off by extended courses, e.g. in music pedagogy, methodology and teaching practice, instrumental second subject, voice physiology, which can be chosen individually.
The study programme is accompanied by workshops, which are conducted by guest lecturers of the respective genre.
Faculty

Nadja Dehn
Jazz/Rock/Pop Gesang, Lehrpraxis und Methodik
Sabine Helmbold
Jazz/Rock/Pop Chor
Audiation, Ensembleleitung
Felix Herrmann
Jazz/Rock/Pop Gesang
Mobile: +49 152 08531102
Kiki Manders
Jazz/Rock/Pop Gesang
Tatiana Nova
Jazz/Rock/Pop Gesang
Contacts for all professors, lecturers and staff can be found here
Alumnae & Alumni
Tatjana Nova
Jazzmaster Basel / u.a. / div. Preise
Inez Schäfer
Duo Ätna - sehr erfolgreiche Band mit Festival- und TV-Engagements und vielen Millionen Clicks und Followern
Fama M’boup
Duo Olicia - diverse Preise auch international / Artists in Residence
Anna Lucia Rupp
Duo Olicia - diverse Preise auch international / Artists in Residence
Karoline Weidt
internationale Festivaltätigkeit / diverse internationale Preise
Viktoria Leléka
Leléka, ESC Vertreterin der Ukraine 2026, internationale Festivaltätigkeit
Evin Kücükali
Festivaltätigkeit
Sanni Lötzsch
Alias KidBeKid internationale Festivaltätigkeit / div. intern. Preise
Yelena Mashkaryan
Nominee für deutschen Jazzpreis
Masterclasses & Workshops Jazz/Rock/Pop
Jazz-Gitarren-Workshop
Workshop mit John Stowell (USA) am Donnerstag 15.10.2026
Improvisation
Workshop mit Kevin Sedikki am Montag, 30.11.2026
Rhythmische Konstruktionen und Perkussionstechniken auf der Gitarre
Workshop mit Kevin Sedikki am Dienstag, 01.12.2026
Background-Gesang in der Popularmusik
Workshop mit Felix Herrmann am Mittwoch, 21.10.26
Application Entrance Requirements
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Studies Curriculum & Course Schedule
Contact Persons Jazz/Rock/Pop
Stephan Bormann
Prof.
Jazz/Rock/Pop Gitarre/Ensemble
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