THE NORWEGIAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

The Norwegian Academy of Music offers music education of the highest level in Norway and holds a central position in the Norwegian world of music. Throughout the years the Academy has contributed to a solid foundation for many of Norway’s most renowned musicians. The Norwegian Academy of Music: offer the highest level of education for performers and composers, pedagogues and music therapists is an artistic andcreative centre provide research within various fields of music. We offer a high quality and variety of courses at all levels, one of the results being that the Academy is Oslo’s biggest concert producer presenting approximately 300 concerts a year. The Academy’s study programmes are constantly reviewed and updated with outstanding teachers in order to anticipate and meet the need for musicians in our society. The Norwegian Academy of Music is a university college with 465 students, and offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Both academic qualifications and musical entrance requirements must be met. All applications will be handled in accordance with national requirements for admission to higher education. Undergraduate courses qualify for the Norwegian academic degree Bachelor, which is obtained when graduating from a four-year programme of study at university level. All classroom tuition is in Norwegian. For admission to the undergraduate courses you are required to demonstrate a proficiency in Norwegian that will enable you to follow the tuition. Admission to the postgraduate programmes requires a completed undergraduate study programme from the Norwegian Academy of Music or a corresponding programme. Please contact the Academy for further details. The Norwegian Academy Of Music was established in 1973. Before that time higher education in the field of applied music was handled by private music conservatories in the major cities, the foremost of them the Music Conservatory of Oslo which was founded and run by the Lindeman family. Foto: Kjetil Alsvik / ConocoPhillips Ludvig Mathias and his son, Peter Brynie Lindeman, started the organist school in Oslo in 1883. The intention was to better the educational possibilities for organists in the Lutheran Church of Norway and further their professional interests. However, their initiative was met with such an enthusiasm that after some few years the organist school developed into a fully fledge music conservatory. The financial resources were, however, very limited, and that hampered in many ways the development of the conservatory. Members of the Lindeman family felt that music education, as education in other fields, should be paid for by the state. This was the only way to secure a stable and substantial financial backing for an educational programme. Several times they offered the Music Conservatory of Oslo to the government of Norway - even as a gift - but they did not succeed in their endeavours. However, as pedagogues and organizers of music education they had a great success, and a majority of the musicians working in Norway from the last decade of the 19th century and towards the last part of the 20th century got their training at the Music Conservatory of Oslo. When The Norwegian Academy Of Music was founded, the Music Conservatory of Oslo closed down its activities. Most of the faculty members of the Music Conservatory were hired by the newly founded Academy, which also took over the buildings and other facilities of the Music Conservatory. It was apparent that the new Academy needed more space in order to cope with the challenges which a modern institution meets, and in 1989 the Academy moved into new facilities at Majorstua in Oslo with two concert halls, a modern library, ample office space for faculty members. More than a hundred years after the Lindeman family started their organist school, their dream of a well equipped school of music on a university level came true. Today the Academy is undergoing major changes, as the head-office is expanding with a new block of 7000 sq meters. The additional building will be finished late autumn 2006. Norwegian Academy of Music P.O.Box 5190 Majorstua NO- 0302 Oslo NORWAY Telephone: + 47 23 36 70 00 Fax: + 47 23 36 70 01 Email: mh@nmh.no