Programmes

Acting

In the acting specialisation, the focus is on shaping and developing students into actors who are employable in a diverse range of spoken-word theatres (small and major theatres, performances on location, theatres for young and for old, from repertoire to experimental theatre, from conceptual theatre to collaborative works, from solo to ensemble works).

Bachelor and Master in Visual Arts

Bachelor Dance

As a contemporary dancer you are able to redefine. You can create, execute, take initiative and self-educate. You want to be artistically innovative. During projects, you work interdisciplinary with artists from music, theatre or visual arts. You will also get acquainted with dance and diversity during inclusive dance workshops.

Brass Instruments

Brass forms an inherent part of our musical landscape, and it is difficult to imagine a symphony orchestra, brass band, or wind orchestra without a good brass section. Brass players are well-represented elsewhere, too, in a legion of other professional contexts: in brass ensembles, chamber music, musical theatre, and in the teaching of professionals and amateurs. The Bass trajectory of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (a trajectory of the specialization Instrument / vocal studies) is therefore focused on providing the student with broad skills, so that he or she can enter the professional world at a later stage in an independent and flexible manner, whether or not within the traditional orchestral framework.

Composition

Specialization Composition: The search for and development of one’s own musical language is a creative process, and in this sense, to compose is to create. Central to this creative process is the unique personality of the composer, who uses his or her knowledge, expertise, insight and an open and questioning mindset to mould his or her creativity and originality in order to make new music

Conducting

The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp offers tomorrow’s conductors a two-year specialization which further builds on the skills acquired during the Bachelor or Master of Music course. Conducting is a highly demanding discipline which requires very specific competencies: a thorough knowledge of the repertoire, knowledge of complex scores, an excellent ear, sophisticated communication skills, a perfect conducting technique and vital stage presence. The conducting course teaches you the rehearsal techniques, and the analytical and substantive artistic skills to create a considered interpretation and appropriate performance plan, and to put these into effect.

Costume Design

In recent years theatre, performance, dance, opera and film have merged into artistic hybrid forms in which different disciplines from the performing arts work together.

Dance & Education

Drama & Education

Drama

Over the years, the Drama programme has proven to be of substantial influence on the international performing arts, both through its alumni and faculty. However, the use of the Dutch language makes the curriculum less accessible to students from outside Flanders or the Netherlands. The curriculum provides three specialisations: Acting, Music creation and performance art, Media, writing and performance art, which each cater to either potential ensemble players of the world repertoire, or to artists performing work (text and/or music) of their own creation.

Educational master in Visual Arts

If you want to become a teacher in the visual arts, the Educational Master in Visual Arts (combined with your master's degree in Visual Arts) is perfect for you.

Fashion

Fashion reflects social, societal, cultural, artistic and aesthetic ideas. It occupies a prominent position in our culture and economy, defines a period and can be both controversial and revolutionary. In this sense, a fashion designer can put a personal stamp on the times.

Fine Arts - In Situ

Art does not always function in an artistic environment. Outside the studio, gallery or museum, ecological, economic, social or architectural contexts have a major impact on a work of art.

Fine Arts - Painting

Painting has been around for centuries and has reinvented itself several times. In an age of digital visual culture, it occupies a unique position. Choosing for painting is choosing a slow medium with a particularly rich tradition and contemporary potential.

Fine Arts - Printmaking

In these times of digital dominance in a rapidly changing world, many artists return to the slowness of the creative (re)production process and drawing. Unlike purely digital media, printmaking adds a challenging material component. Printmaking explores and connects both worlds.

Sculpture

Sculpture is an ancient artistic discipline, highly subject to changing notions of beauty. Influenced by social and technological developments, the solid medium of sculpture is taking on increasingly fluid shapes.

Graphic design

Graphic design is so intertwined with the world around us that we often no longer see that just about everything in our surroundings was designed by someone. This makes Graphic Design a very versatile practice, primarily concerned with the transmission, organisation and communication of (visual and textual) language.

Jazz

Students who enter the Jazz specialization at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp can expect to graduate as excellent musicians who are ready to take their place in the international professional scene. The training and coaching you will receive is highly practical and customized to your individual needs and interests. From day one, the study programme will immerse you in international professional practice, with an emphasis on the development of your own artistic personality, the acquisition of expertise, and the engagement of your sense of entrepreneurship.

Jewellery design & gold- and silversmithing

The human need for ornament is universal and timeless. Jewellery and wearable objects tell a story about the status, style and culture of the beholder.

Keyboard instruments

The Department of Keyboard Instruments creates an inspiring learning biotope for young keyboard artists, in which tradition and innovation go hand in hand. The development of each student's individual professional profile is the main focus and is supported by a technical mastery of the instrument, knowledge of the repertoire, creative skills and a healthy work ethic. 

Master in Dance

The Master in Dance Residency is a unique and fresh collaboration between the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and DE SINGEL International Arts Centre.

Media, writing and performance art

The study programme for the Media, writing and performance art specialisation is based on three cornerstones or principal disciplines which are part of the course for every student: Stage, Writing, and Media. This specialisation uses as its starting point the acquisition of basic knowledge, skills and reflection for each principal subject individually, and it evolves during the course of the bachelor’s programme to become a specialisation with a more integrated approach.

Music

Do you dream of becoming a composer, orchestral musician, teacher, soloist, or do you aspire to combine multiple career choices? Does your talent lie in performing in combo, in a chamber music setting, big band, choir or orchestra? At the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp our Music degrees open the door to a host of career pathways.

Music & Education

Music and Performing Arts & Education

Music creation and performance art

The Music creation and performance art specialisation shapes and develops students into autonomous performing artists who are able to create and realise music and theatre and all combinations of the two. The starting point is always the unique personality and specific creative and technical skills of the individual student, and these are developed and broadened in the various disciplines during the teaching of this specialisation.

Percussion

Over the last 20 years, the professional percussion world has witnessed a spectacular (r)evolution. The repertoire and the new, contemporary techniques have been fundamentally changed, and professionals are now expected to be multifunctional; from playing in a baroque orchestra to a contemporary ensemble, from a session musician to improvising, from performing as a soloist to being a dedicated teacher. In response to this, the percussion tracetory of the specialization Instrument / vocal studies has developed into a highly-motivated department.

Photography

Today everyone with a smartphone seems to be a photographer. But is that really the case? Photography is a rapidly changing medium with a direct relationship to the changing society. A photographer looks at the world and works with what reality has to offer. The Photography programme at the Academy trains the image makers of tomorrow by familiarising them with the technical, conceptual and aesthetic aspects of the medium.

Plucked instruments

With its strong teaching tradition, the Plucked instruments trajectory (of the specialization Instrument / vocal studies) of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp provides an inspiring learning environment for young guitarists and harpists, with technical mastery, individuality, and understanding of historical and contemporary performance practice at the core of the programme.

Postgraduate Mantle of the Expert

In this one-year programme, you will learn about Mantle of the Expert and how to apply it in your classroom. 

Postgraduate Sound Cradle

The demand for sensitive, artistic input for young children is high. Day-care centres, after-school centres and all kinds of other initiatives, as well as young parents, are eagerly looking for a qualitative artistic approach to young children. More and more performing artists are discovering the special musical sensitivity of babies, toddlers and preschoolers and are developing an educational approach for them.

Postgraduate Suzuki

The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp is the only academic institution in Europe to offer a postgraduate Suzuki degree.

String instruments

Founded on a strong historical tradition within the Conservatoire, the String trajectory (of the specialization Instrument / vocal studies) provides an ambitious and inspiring environment for young, motivated violinists, violists, cellists, and double-bass players and also hosts the only Postgraduate Suzuki in Europe.

Vocal studies

Each year the Vocal trajectory (specialization Instrument / vocal studies) offered by the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp attracts a large number of students who come from across the whole world to use the teaching given by the Conservatoire’s solid team of internationally-renowned singing experts to advance their skills and to shape them into professional artists at the very highest level.

Woodwind instruments

Woodwinds play an indispensable role in symphony orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and wind orchestras. The Woodwind trajectory at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (a trajectory of the specialization Instrument / vocal studies) is therefore heavily focused on traditional orchestral and ensemble training, led by an experienced staff of teachers who also occupy important solo positions in the national and international orchestral and chamber music world.