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Violin Master Training - Course Description

The master degree enables students to reach higher-levels of technique and artistry in performance upon completion of their study. With this level of education the candidates will able to function as members of various orchestras, or in chamber ensembles, or perform as soloists in a national or international setting.

The master students will be able to choose various non-compulsory subjects based on their interests and professional aspirations.

Performances with the orchestra may include operas, symphonies, contemporary works, concerto accompaniment etc.

During their studies, candidates will learn works from the baroque, Viennese classical, romantic and contemporary genres. They will also learn the standard excerpts required for orchestral auditions worldwide.

Students are tested at the orchestral exam as well.

 

Attention to all students:

  • Chamber music pieces may be played from sheet music, everything else without sheet music. The same goes for the diploma concert.
  • Sonatas may be perforamed with either a chamber music partner (currently doing their studies at the Academy) or an accompanist (employed by the Academy).

 

MA I, 1st semester

  • the 1st or 2nd or 3rd-4th movement of Bartók Solo sonata and one of the following options:
  • Schubert A major Rondo D.438
  • Schubert B-minor Rondo D.895
  • Mozart C major Rondo Kv. 373 AND B major Rondo Kv. 269
  • Mozart Haffner serenade (with cadences) Kv. 250
  • Beethoven G major AND F major romance op. 50

OR

  • a solo sonata of Ysaye OR 
  • Bartók's Rhapsody No.1 or Rhapsody No.2
  • and another entire Beethoven (with the exception of: op.30 Nr.2, op.47, op.96. ) or Brahms sonata

(the sonata should be different from the piece played at chamber music examinations)

MA I, 2nd semester

- an outer movement of one of the pieces below:

  • Bartók: Violin concerto No. 1 (2nd movement)
  • Bartók: No. 2 
  • Berg: Violin concerto
  • Britten: Violin concerto op.15 (1st and 2nd or 2nd and 3rd movements)
  • Dohnányi: Violin concerto No. 1. op.27
  • Dohnányi: Violin concerto No. 2. op.43
  • Elgar: Violin concerto op.61
  • Goldmark: Violin concerto op.28
  • Korngold: Violin concerto op.35
  • Szymanowsky: Violin concerto No. 1 op.35
  • Shostakovich: Violin concerto No. 1 op.77 (1st and 2nd or 3rd and 4th movements)
  • Strauss: Violin concerto op.8 (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Stravinsky: Violin concerto (1st and 2nd or 3rd and 4th movements)
  • Viski János: Violin concerto
  • Walton: Violin concerto
  • Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, op.19/1 or 2 or 3
  • Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2, op.63

- One etude from the following collections:

  • Wieniawski op. 10
  • Paganini op. 1
  • Hubay 10 Études concertantes, Op.89, Six études de violon Op. 63-64

 

 

MA II, 4th Semester (preparation for the graduation concert)

For the Diploma Concert  the program must consist of three pieces of contrasting styles/periods:

- J. S. Bach:

  • first two movements from a solo sonata
    OR
  • Chaconne
    OR
  • Partita in E major
    OR
  • Partita in  B minor

- One chamber music piece

  • one sonata
    OR
  • string or piano trio
    OR
  • string or piano quartet or string quintet (1st violin part)

- One full violin concerto (if a Mozart violin concerto is chosen, the candidate also needs to perform a vituoso piece)

MA II, 4th Semester - Complex Oral Exam

The oral exam must consist of a 20-minute oral presentation, possibly supplemented with live music illustration, related to the student's instrument, its literature and history, but not directly related to the repertoire of the student's diploma concert. The student must discuss the topic of the oral exam with their main subject teacher and submit it 3 months prior to the oral exam to the Study Department. In case the presentation is partly related to a piece performed at the diploma concert (composer, genre, etc.), the student must note that the oral exam must not consist of only the analysis of the particular piece.   

 

Study of Orchestra Parts compulsory course

MA students are required to take an exam of the following in the 2nd semester of the first year:

  • Selected parts of the orchestra repertoire of the given semester
  • selected positions of the 'Orchesterspiel' repertoire collection
  • short sight reading of pieces selected by teaching staff, of certain styles announced before the exam