Education

ARTS² is a college of arts located in Mons. It is composed of three main areas VISUAL ARTS / MUSIC & THEATRE (Royal Conservatory).

ARTS² (Arts au carré) is a Higher School of Arts (ESA) which provides a long term higher education in the arts organised by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

It is located in Mons, cultural capital of the Federation and cultural capital of the European Union for the year 2015.

It is the result of a merger between the Royal Conservatory of Mons and the Higher School of Plastic and Visual Arts (esapv), both of which have a long artistic tradition.

The courses in the field of Visual Arts and Music last 5 years, divided into 2 cycles:

- The bachelor's degree of transition is awarded at the end of the first cycle of 3 years of study.

- The second cycle of 2 years offers the choice between 3 finalities:

specialised master / didactic master / in-depth master

The training in the field of Theatre lasts 4 years, 3 years of transition bachelor and 1 year of master.

The school organises the courses for the higher secondary school diploma.

It also participates in the Erasmus programme and collaborates in postgraduate courses with universities.

Founded in 1988, this department is the only school for jazz within the Federation Wallonia-Brussels which offers Bachelor (3 years) and Masters (2 year) qualifications in jazz. 



The twenty-one teachers who work in the department are all active in different artistic projects in Belgium and abroad, where they are active as soloists as well as accompanists, arrangers, composers or producers.



Bachelor & Master, Master in Education for standards and traditional Jazz , Swing, Be-Bop, Hard-Bop, Free-Jazz, Improvised Music, Brazilian Jazz, Latin Jazz, ECM, Fusion, World-Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, etc… Academic year 2020-21: 90 students 

The music department of the Royal Conservatory of Liège is organised in two cycles. 

- The first cycle (180 credits) leads to the academic grade of Bachelier de qualification or Bachelier de transition which gives access to Master's studies. 

- The second cycle (120 credits) leads to the academic degree of Master. 

The Royal Conservatory of Liège also offers Aggregations allowing holders of a specialised Master's degree to obtain the grade of Agrégé de l'Enseignement Secondaire Supérieur.

In this section, you can consult the educational project, the list of courses, the members of the teaching staff and the registration procedures.

The IMEP aims to be an autonomous centre for research and artistic creation, in constant evolution, where the spirit of openness and collaboration are the fundamental pillars.

In order to achieve its objectives, the Higher Institute positions itself on a regional, national and international level through its mobility, its projects, its concrete and unprecedented actions in the field; it shows and opens the way for the elaboration of a thinking of the Arts.

Its objectives are defined by study cycles :

- Short cycle :



The short baccalaureate in music with the option of a lower secondary school diploma AESI: specialised training for general education

- Long cycle :



a) The first cycle: the baccalaureate, which provides a polyvalent basic training

b) The second cycle: the master's degree, which provides advanced training at the highest level of competence

The AESS agrégations: broadly open to advances in research, provide the training that is essential for careers in education.

As a private school for pop/rock & jazz, Jazzstudio can organize and decide free from government regulations, thus creating a fertile, open minded and challenging field of activity for young musicians. 



The full program takes five years (starting in the preparation year), or four years (when you can start in the first year). During their first two years, jazz and pop students share several courses.



That’s why you can switch between those two during these first years.



No musical background is needed to start at the course, but will influence in which year of the course you will start.



Besides the theory classes where the jazz- and pop students follow class together, the focus of the course remains the practical classes where individual guidance is important.



Graduates who want extra coaching for a certain topic can take an extra year with a personalized programme.

LUCA School of Arts is the only university college in Flanders exclusively dedicated to art and design, making it unique in the region.



The art school combines the strengths and expertise of five renowned Flemish higher education institutions for art and design, spread across Brussels, Genk, Ghent and Leuven.

Most of the programmes are taught in Dutch, but LUCA offers six full-English MA programmes on its campuses in Brussels and Leuven.

The Jazz course at the Conservatory is an open minded, multicultural and not dogmatic course.



Because of the large number of international students, the course has become a cultural melting pot  creating opportunities to break out of the traditional image of a jazz program.



Where the first years of the course focus on mastery of jazz in its traditional form, in the later years a personal interpretation of styles and input of one’s own artistic personality is strongly encouraged.



The course has a rather eclectic musical approach. 



With about 100 students in the jazz course every year, the school offers a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, with the possibility of a postgraduate degree as well as an educational master after successfully finishing the master for main instrument. 

School for music and other art forms (fine arts, audiovisual, architecture…) providing both bachelor and master educations.

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and the Royal Conservatory constitute the school of arts of HOGENT and Howest.



The school brings together talented and motivated students with outstanding educators, active artists, designers and theorists in art and design from all over the world.



The mission statement of the school defines its main tasks: development of the arts, education and research in an international perspective.

The varied range of artistic disciplines in KASK & Conservatory, makes for reciprocally inspiring and relatively open training programs.



As interdisciplinarity in the arts becomes ever more important, there is room for cross-fertilization in our training program.



Also, students will be introduced to some of the numerous theoretical and artistic research projects our lecturers are engaged in.

Two of the KASK & Conservatory campuses are located at the epicenter of Ghent.



Ghent can boast a reputation within the international art world and is traditionally very popular with students.



Not only does this artistic climate form a fertile environment for KASK & Conservatory, our educational institution also actively participates in it with the organisation of exhibitions, concerts, festivals, lectures and film screenings, among other things.Campus Buda in Kortrijk was added in 2018.

The Music programme consists of a three year academic Bachelor’s (180 credits) and a 2 year Master’s (120 credits) degree and trains independent and creative musicians to master their main discipline: instrumental, singing, conducting, composing, music theory/harmony and counterpoint, music education or jazz and popular music.



The programme guides students in the development of a personal artistic identity.



It addresses and provides guidance on how to create interdisciplinary projects, shape their own artistic project and manage the aspects of communication, promotion and public relations.

With an emphasis on the development of your own artistic personality, the acquisition of expertise, and the engagement of your sense of entrepreneurship, the conservatory strives to provide the perfect fit for each and every student by individualizing your study programme and by giving flexibility in terms of choice of teachers.



It aims to educate enthusiastic and talented people to become creative, professional musicians and performing artists with great autonomy and personality, able to slot into the contemporary socio-cultural and artistic frame of reference.