Address: Glorietteallee 2
Postal Code: 7000
Region: Burgenland (AT)
City: Eisenstadt
Url: www.haydnkons.at
Briefly about:
The Joseph Haydn Conservatoire (JHK) was founded in 1971 as a living monument for Joseph Haydn. It is the easternmost and smallest of the federal provincial conservatoires of Austria. Joseph Haydn, for whom the school is named, spent nearly thirty years of his life as court composer to the Princes Esterházy in Eisenstadt; many of his immortal works were composed and premiered here. The Austrian educational system provides conservatoires, including the Joseph Haydn Conservatoire, as well as universities of music and performing arts, to offer students the highest levels of instruction. In contrast to the universities, at the conservatoires the training of exceptionally talented children is a matter of particular attention. At the Joseph Haydn Conservatoire approximately four hundred pupils and students from all over the world are taught by forty-three international faculty members – personal mentoring and contact between students and faculty is thus a matter of course.
Course offerings include music theory and composition, instrumental or vocal music performance and instrumental or vocal music pedagogy on all orchestral instruments except harp, as well as voice, piano, organ, accordion, guitar, recorder, and the jazz and pop music instruments electric guitar, electric bass, keyboards, percussion and jazz saxophone.
The JHK is called to participate in this programme, because already long prior to Haydn’s activities Eisenstadt was an important centre for music, especially in the field of sacred vocal music. Many manuscripts lie – not yet explored – in the music archives of the Esterhazy foundation and of the dome.
Since the winter semester 2006-2007 it has been possible to complete a Bachelor’s degree from the Bratislava University of Music and the Performing Arts while studying exclusively at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt. Those studies under quality assurance of the University in Bratislava are part of quality management at the JHK, who reports on a yearly basis to the stakeholders of the institution.