College of Music and Arts Montepulciano
The Montepulciano College of Music and the Arts is a collaborative initiative involving the seven art and music colleges in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It enables students and staff from the participating institutions to engage in interdisciplinary artistic work and research in Montepulciano, with a view to exploring new approaches to the arts.
SummerLab and the Laboratory of the Arts
Among the distinctive working formats are the SummerLab and the Laboratory of the Arts, each with a different focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and subject-specific specialisation. In addition, the college enables students on artistic degree programmes to take part in an annual chamber music project.
Furthermore, students from all disciplines can apply for working residencies at Palazzo Ricci as part of the short-term ‘Students in Residence’ programme.
As part of study projects, the universities involved in the programme also use Palazzo Ricci for their own projects. This allows university classes and ensembles to work intensively here with their lecturers in a unique atmosphere. Concerts or small exhibitions on site are also possible.
Workshop for artists and ensembles
A number of artist groups and ensembles that have outlasted their studies have emerged from the Montepulciano projects and have gone on to establish themselves professionally.
The following institutions are involved in this nationally and internationally unique, highly acclaimed consortium of the ‘College of the Arts’: the Detmold University of Music, the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf, the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, the Cologne University of Music and Dance, the Cologne Academy of Media Arts, the Münster Academy of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Participation in the College’s projects is recognised as academic credit.
The Montepulciano College of the Arts is made possible by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and through funding from the DAAD.