The Liceu Conservatory has made a great bet for Jazz and Modern Music recognition as specializations in the Bachelor’s Degree. The Department’s teachers are big names of the Jazz and Modern Music scene in Barcelona and abroad. The Department offers an ideal environment to study this music with maximum accuracy and with total knowledge of its tradition and modern trends. The students of the Bachelor of Music Performance, Major in Jazz and Modern Music, have at their disposition several programs of instruments: electric guitar, bass, electric bass, piano, drums and percussion, singing, saxophone, trumpet, flute trombone, and violin.
The Jazz and Modern Music studies have specific teachers, courses, and ensembles that allow the student to get specialized training aimed at the type of music more adequate to his/her sensitivity.
The Jazz and Modern Music students at the Liceu Conservatory have frequent opportunities to play in the areas of the Center (in the Auditorium and in the Cafè, where the Liceu Jam Sessions have been consolidated as an indispensable concert cycle on Thursday evenings in Barcelona). In addition, in several stages in the city, in combos and other ensembles, as the emblematic Liceu Big Band which has made a name for itself in the Barcelona scene through its collaborations in renowned cycles as Barcelona’s Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival.
The Department also has a program of visiting teachers and the Masterclasses of the Liceu Jazz concert cycle that allows the students to meet the big musical names of today visiting Barcelona to play in the mentioned festival.
Degree: Bachelor of Music, Performance Major
Credits: 240 ECTS (60 ECTS per academic year)
Curriculum:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | ||
| ECTS | Credits | Credits | Credits | Credits | |
| CORE SUBJECTS | |||||
| Compositional Techniques | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Analysis I | 4 | 4 | |||
| Ear Training I | 4 | 4 | |||
| History of Music | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Aesthetics of Music | 4 | 4 | |||
| 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | ||
| FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT | |||||
| Final Research Project | 12 | 12 | |||
| COMPULSORY SUBJECTS | |||||
| Instrument | 108 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 |
| Ear Training II | 4 | 4 | |||
| Second Instrument I /Classical Techinque I | 3 | 3 | |||
| Second Instrument II/Classical Technique II | 3 | 3 | |||
| Instrument Workshop | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Improvisation | 16 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Arrangements and Composition | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Combo | 16 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Ensembles | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 182 | 44 | 52 | 45 | 41 | |
| ELECTIVES CREDITS | |||||
| Electives Credits | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 |
| TOTAL | 240 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
