Music Education

The students and their artistic, pedagogical, and personal development are at the heart of the teaching and research activities at the Institute of Music Education. Its teaching staff creates the framework for this and provides a solid foundation for work in music schools, community projects, outreach formats, and much more. The institute understands pedagogical action as an artistic activity that is just as much about enjoying music as it is about assuming socio-political and social responsibility.

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Bachelor's Programme Elemental Music Education

8 semesters / 240 ECTS / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

The focus of the Elemental Music Education (EMP) programme is the artistic development of individual forms of expression in the areas of music, movement and voice. These areas permeate each other and are linked in a variety of ways in group-dynamic improvisation and creative processes. The experiences gained in this way form the basis for pedagogical action. Aesthetic works of art arise from the seemingly simple.

Professional fields

The programme is aimed at individuals with an interest in education and musical training who want to express themselves artistically in the areas of music, movement and voice. EMP graduates work in artistic-performative contexts as well as in numerous artistic-educational fields, including music schools, in areas of integrative/inclusive education, in adult education and in concert education.

Key qualifications: A wide range of musical and artistic interests, enjoyment of movement, improvisation and spontaneous creation, good communication skills, pedagogical flexibility, and an affinity for working with groups.

Master's Programme Elemental Music Education

4 semesters / 120 ECTS / Master of Arts (MA)

The artistic-pedagogical Master's programme in Elemental Music Education (EMP) is based on a Bachelor's programme in EMP or a related subject. The focus of this degree programme is on experiencing and reflecting on artistic performance in the interconnection of music-movement-voice, improvisation and creation, artistic and artistic-pedagogical processes. The EMP master programme's aim is to provide students with highly qualified artistic-pedagogical professional training and profiling, to further develop their skills in the field of elemental music performance and their stance in artistic-pedagogical as well as scientific terms. The Master's programme allows students to deepen their knowledge in the area of their chosen minor in order to enhance their skills and knowledge. The Anton Bruckner University offers the four-semester Master of Arts in Elemental Music Education every year.

Pedagogical Bachelor's Programme (PBA)

Information on the Bachelor's degree programmes in artistic pedagogical studies (PBA) is provided by the respective institutes:

Pedagogical Master's Programme (PMA)

Information on the artistic-pedagogical master's programmes (PMA) can be found at the respective institutes:

Master's programme in Music Mediation – Music in Context

Artistic-Scholarly Master's Programme

4 semesters / 120 ECTS / Master of Arts (MA)

The artistic-scholarly master's programme music mediation – music in context (MV) requires completion of a relevant Bachelor's programme or another relevant degree from a recognized domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution with at least the same level of higher education.

Start of program: 2026/27
Application deadline: April 7, 2026
Entrance exam: April 24 and 25, 2026

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Teacher Education Programme

for Secondary Schools (AMP)

Ten universities from Upper Austria and Salzburg (Anton Bruckner University, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Catholic Private University Linz, University of Education Upper Austria, Private University of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Edith Stein University of Education, University of Education Salzburg, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Mozarteum University Salzburg, University of Art and Design), which have joined together to form a regional association under the name ‘Cluster Mitte’, have been offering a joint teacher training programme for secondary education, i.e. teaching at NMS, polytechnic schools, special schools, AHS and BMHS, since the 2016/17 academic year.

The teacher training programme prepares students for a varied, demanding and socially important task: accompanying children on their learning and life journey and securing their opportunities in a constantly changing environment.

The Anton Bruckner University offers a teacher training programme in music in close cooperation with the two teacher training colleges in Linz. This programme, in combination with a second subject, qualifies graduates to teach music in secondary schools (grades 5-13, no instrumental instruction). The teacher training programme in instrumental music is offered at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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Bachelor's programme in secondary school music teaching

Until winter semester 2026: 8 semesters / 240 ECTS / Bachelor of Education (BEd)
From winter semester 2026: 6 semesters / 180 ECTS / Bachelor of Education (BEd)

The subject of music provides basic artistic, scholarly, didactic and practical training for teaching music at secondary level (general education). The subject-specific part combines artistic requirements – especially in the artistic profile subject – with professional knowledge in the central discipline of music education and basic knowledge of musicology and music theory. The central task of the didactic courses is to support students in developing an individual teaching profile, building on the knowledge imparted in the subject-specific courses, with reference to a variety of didactic and methodological approaches and in direct connection with school practice.

Admission to the secondary school teaching programme is not handled by BrucknerUni. Further information can be found here.

Curriculum Bachelor OLD (Start of studies in 2025/26; transition to new curriculum possible from 2026 onwards)
Curriculum Bachelor NEW (Start of studies in 2026/27)
OLD: Guide to BA Music Education Cluster Mitte (German)
NEW: Guide to BA Music Education Cluster Mitte (German)

Master's programme in secondary school music teaching

4 semesters / 120 ECTS / Master of Education (MEd)

The four-semester Master's programme in music education provides specialist knowledge, didactics and practical school training for secondary school music teachers (general education). The Master's programme offers students the opportunity to deepen their specialist knowledge, with the option of setting personal priorities. Practical school training courses complete the range of subjects on offer.

A central element of the Master's programme is the artistic pedagogical project, in which students deepen their artistic knowledge in a field of their choice (depending on what is offered at the study locations) and apply their music education skills by independently designing and implementing a project in an educational context.

Admission to the secondary school teaching programme is not handled by the Bruckner University. Further information can be found here.

Curriculum Master OLD (Start of studies in 2025/26; transition to new curriculum possible from 2026 onwards)
Curriculum Master NEW (Start of studies 2026/27)