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From Thursday, 05.03. to Saturday, 07.03.2020 we will be at the fair BeSt³ in Vienna. Come by and find out about the Bachelor's degree programme in Music Business at Austria's largest education fair!

Experience the current generation of the Bandpool and take a look behind the scenes of our newcomer program Bandpool. LIVE & LAUT! Admission to the concert is free!

Writing songs yourself, tinkering with lyrics, creating compositions - SONGS the songwriting competition in cooperation with the Stiftung Bildung und Soziales of the Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg celebrates its fifth birthday and gives young songwriters the chance to be on the big stage with their song again. Join us and apply with your song until April 1st, 2020.

From 1 to 4 April, the Pop Academy will be a guest in Frankfurt am Main at the Musikmesse, Europe's biggest trade fair for the music industry.

At the World Music Café in the Popakdemie, students of the Bachelor's programme in World Music present their current band and solo projects.

Pop Academy bands live on stage! At the Work in Progress Club concert the solo artists and bands of the students of the Popular Music faculty will present their current projects. The concert starts at 8 p.m., admission is free.

Experience the current generation of the Bandpool and take a look behind the scenes of our newcomer program Bandpool. LIVE & LAUT! Admission to the concert is free!

The FMC takes place on 23 and 24 April. The curated part of the Future Music Camp 2020 will focus on the label and modern product management: What role will the label still have in 2020?
What developments are relevant in the field of streaming? What role do podcasts play in the music industry? How easy is it to program fake streams?

The keynote speakers have all been confirmed, including Callum Caulfield (Atlantic Records, responsible for Ed Sheeran), Sophie Brüggemann (Spinnin' Records), Simone Schiborr (Deezer), Tina Jürgens (zebra-audio.net), Samira Leitmannstetter (Sony Music) and Nikoo Sadr (The Orchard). All keynotes and the schedule are listed here.

Free registration for the Future Music Camp 2020 is possible under this Link.

30 April 2020 is the application deadline for the two Bachelor's programmes in Pop Music Design, Music Business and World Music.

Beats & Sound of the producing students! The line-up of the Producers Club consists of students from the Pop Music Design bachelor's programme and the Popular Music master's programme with a focus on Producing/Composing Artist. Admission is free.

Television, cinema, YouTube, Netflix and many other channels present music films, music videos and clips in unprecedented variety. The 16th edition of the International Forum for Films on Music presents and discusses with producers, directors, editors, broadcasters and freelancers trends and topics in recent music film productions.

On May 15th, the award ceremony will take place at the final concert of the songwriting competition SONGS in the SpardaWelt Event Centre in Stuttgart. Selected participants will perform their songs live in front of a jury of experts from the music industry. Admission is free.

Popakademie bands live on stage! At the Work in Progress Club concert the solo artists and bands of the students of the Popular Music faculty will present their current projects. The concert starts at 8 p.m., admission is free.

The application deadeline for the Master's programme in Popular Music is 31 May 2020.

The application deadeline for the Master's programme in Music and Creative Industries is 15 June 2020.

Popakademie bands live on stage! At the Work in Progress Club concert the solo artists and bands of the students of the Popular Music faculty will present their current projects. The concert starts at 8 p.m., admission is free.

Four days of live gigs at the Popakademie! Before the Popakademie and its students start the well-deserved semester break, there will be four days of thrilling live gigs at the Summer Break Sessions. A total of almost 30 artists will take their live exams in the performance rooms of the Popakademie - open to the public and free of charge!

Experience the best Popakademie bands and solo artists at the big end-of-semester concert on 24 July 2020. Bands and musicians from the Popakademie will be on stage to present a varied music mix from different genres.