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The course selection for spring 2026 will be published on 4 November 2025. The application period begins on 18 November 2025 at 9:00 AM and ends on 9 December 2025 at 11:59 PM.
The course selection for spring 2026 will be published on 4 November 2025. The application period begins on 18 November 2025 at 9:00 AM and ends on 9 December 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Course name (ECTS credits) | Course dates | Method of learning | Location | Price | Registration |
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Accompaniment on Fiddle 1 (2 cr) | 1.9.2025 -26.10.2025 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 40 € | Registration has ended |
Accompaniment on Fiddle 1: Autumn 2024 (2 cr) | 2.9.2024 -26.10.2024 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Accompaniment on Fiddle 2 (2 cr) | 20.10.2025 -14.12.2025 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 40 € | Registration has ended |
Accompaniment on Fiddle 2 ONLINE COURSE (2 cr) | 21.10.2024 -15.12.2024 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Active Music Listening for Music Educators Module II (1 cr) | 16.3.2025 -6.4.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Advanced folk dance, 3 cr | 23.1.2025 -24.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Aktivistinen taide ja ruumiin politiikka (2 cr) | 5.9.2025 -17.9.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts, Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
All Abilities Band (4 cr) | 25.9.2025 -16.4.2026 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Analysis of 17th-century music (2 cr) Application period extended! | 13.1.2025 -28.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Art & Activism in the Urban Soundscape (5 cr) | 9.9.2025 -11.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 150 € | Registration has ended |
Baroque Academy: “A weekend of excessively good taste” instrumental students (3 cr) | 14.4.2026 -18.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 | Registration has ended |
Baroque Academy: Baroque dance (3 cr) | 3.10.2025 -1.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 | Registration has ended |
Baroque Academy: Full Baroque Italian-style decoration and diminution (2 cr) | 23.1.2026 -30.1.2026 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Baroque opera with modern instruments (3 cr) | 16.9.2025 -8.10.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Basics of Copyright in the Creative Sector (online, 1 cr) | 8.9.2025 -31.12.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 20 € | Registration has ended |
Basics of Copyright in the Creative Sector (online; 1 cr) | 12.5.2025 -15.8.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Basics of book binding (3 cr) | 11.8.2025 -14.8.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Basics of conducting a wind ensemble (2 cr) | 15.8.2025 -17.8.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Basics of conducting an orchestra (4 cr) | 22.5.2025 -13.8.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Basics of jazz improvisation and theory (6 cr) (integrated teaching) | 11.9.2025 -30.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 180€ | Registration has ended |
Basics of jazz improvisation and theory, Open Uni (6 cr) | 11.9.2025 -16.4.2026 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 180€ | Registration has ended |
Basics of the history of Western art music I (2 cr) | 2.9.2025 -16.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Basics of the history of Western art music I, ONLINE COURSE, ENG (2 cr) | 4.9.2025 -30.4.2026 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 40 € | Registration has ended |
Basics of the history of folk music (3 cr) | 15.1.2025 -16.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Body Mapping (2 cr) | 10.9.2025 -17.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Body maintenance for musicians (2 cr) | 10.9.2025 -17.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Choral conducting, minimum level B, 1st year (20 cr) | 2.9.2025 -28.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 400 | Registration has ended |
Choral conducting, minimum level B, 2nd year (20 cr) | 2.9.2025 -28.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 400 | Registration has ended |
Community Engagement Project: Sing! Sustainable Community Through Choral Art (4 cr) | 25.8.2025 -30.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts, Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Computer Assisted Composition 1 (4 cr) | 1.9.2025 -5.9.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts, Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Contemporary free improvisation, module 1 (basic; 3 cr) | 17.9.2025 -5.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Dance numbers and vocal scenes from 17th century French stage works (2 cr) | 19.9.2025 -21.9.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Early music group pedagogy, 5 cr | 14.3.2025 -6.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Länsi-Helsingin musiikkiopisto | Registration has ended | |
Email English (CEFR B1) (1 cr) | 8.9.2025 -5.12.2025 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 20 € | Registration has ended |
English for Arts Studies and Practice 1, MONDAY AUTUMN (2 cr) | 1.9.2025 -8.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Film music: lecture series on cinematic narration and film music history (5 cr) | 16.9.2025 -25.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 150 | Registration has ended |
Financial skills for freelancers in the arts -online course (1-2 cr) | 8.9.2025 -31.12.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 0 | Registration has ended |
Financial skills for freelancers in the arts -online course (1-2 cr) | 12.5.2025 -15.8.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Finnish Music (2 cr) | 2.9.2025 -16.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Flow (2 cr) | 12.9.2025 -19.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Folk dance a (2 cr) | 9.9.2025 -16.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Folk dance a (2 cr) | 11.9.2024 -18.12.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Free improvisation and expression a (2 cr) | 5.9.2025 -21.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
French Baroque music analysis and practice workshop (5 cr) | 1.9.2025 -27.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
General pedagogy lectures (2 cr) | 10.9.2025 -17.12.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Global Choir (6 ECTS cr) | 12.9.2024 -24.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Global Choir 2025-2026 (6 cr) | 11.9.2025 -30.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 180 | Registration has ended |
Global Ensemble: Interdisciplinary Improvisation Ensemble, autumn 2025 (4 cr) | 1.9.2025 -5.9.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Global Rhythmics: Foundation (4 ECTS cr) | 2.9.2024 -28.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Global Rhythmics: Foundation a (2 cr) | 8.9.2025 -15.12.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Harpsichord history, tuning and maintenance (2 cr) | 4.9.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
History of early music 2: From early Baroque to the galant style (2 cr) | 21.1.2026 -25.3.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
History of piano music, 2 cr | 14.1.2025 -8.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Inspiration Course in Global Choir Leadership 2024-2025, 2nd year course (8 ECTS cr) | 20.9.2024 -13.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Inspiration Course in Global Choir Leadership, 1st year course (8 ECTS cr) | 20.9.2024 -13.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Inspiration Course in Global Choir Leadership, 1st year course (8 cr) | 19.9.2025 -12.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Inspiration Course in Global Choir Leadership, 2nd year course (10 cr) | 19.9.2025 -12.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Instrument building and maintenance: Accordion maintenance (1 cr) | 26.10.2024 -27.10.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Instrument building and maintenance: Cantilever maintenance (1 cr) | 28.9.2024 -29.9.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Instrument building and maintenance: Nyckelharpa maintenance, short course (1 cr) | 15.11.2025 -16.11.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 30 € | Registration has ended |
Instrument building and maintenance: String instrument maintenance (violin, viola & cello), short course (1 cr) | 4.10.2025 -5.10.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 30 € | Registration has ended |
Instrument studies: Open University selection group / Early music (15 cr) | 1.8.2025 -30.4.2027 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction period to music theatre, 2 cr | 11.3.2025 -29.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to Finnish folk music: Finnish Folk singing (3 cr) | 10.9.2025 -17.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Introduction to Folk Big Band (3 cr) | 22.8.2025 -28.8.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Introduction to choral conducting (6 ECTS) Application period extended! | 5.6.2024 -16.8.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to early music performance (2 cr) | 9.1.2025 -24.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to early music performance (2 cr) Application period extended! | 9.1.2025 -24.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to ensemble playing: Folk music ensemble, 3 cr | 8.1.2025 -30.4.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to folk instruments: Kanteles, 2 cr | 14.1.2025 -25.3.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to folk instruments: Violin (2 cr) | 3.9.2025 -17.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Introduction to history of folk music (3 cr) | 9.9.2025 -2.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Introduction to period instrument performance (2 cr) | 9.10.2025 -2.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to recorder (2 cr) | 19.9.2025 -27.9.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to the Baroque bassoon (2 cr) | 20.3.2026 -12.4.2026 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Introduction to the Baroque oboe (2 cr) Application period extended! | 10.1.2025 -21.1.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Introduction to working life, vocal art (2 cr) | 3.9.2025 -17.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Introduktion och breddning i skådespelarkonst (5 cr) | 10.10.2025 -30.11.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts, Helsinki | 150 € | Registration has ended |
Italian 1 (CEFR A1.3) (4 cr) | 1.9.2025 -11.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Jazz Music Module (26 cr) | 2.9.2025 -30.5.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 520€ | Registration has ended |
Jazz workshop – free expression (7 cr) | 1.9.2025 -27.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 210€ | Registration has ended |
Jazz workshop – fundamentals of jazz (7 cr) | 1.9.2025 -27.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 210€ | Registration has ended |
Lecture series on music of our time (1 cr) | 18.9.2025 -18.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 20 € | Registration has ended |
Music Technology Workshop: Sensors and Musical Interaction (3 cr) | 8.9.2025 -16.3.2026 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts, Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Music and movement (3 cr) | 12.9.2025 -24.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Music technology pathway studies (28 cr) | 8.9.2025 -19.5.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 560 € | Registration has ended |
Musician’s work-life skills (5 cr) | 16.9.2025 -7.10.2025 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 100 € | Registration has ended |
Musician’s digital skills (2 cr) | 16.9.2024 -9.12.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Musiikkiteknologian työpaja: Exploratorium on Sonic and Corporal Gestuality (4 cr) | 15.9.2025 -30.3.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts, Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Negotiation Skills Online Course (2 cr) | 12.5.2025 -15.8.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Negotiation Skills Online Course (2 cr) | 8.9.2025 -31.12.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 40 € | Registration has ended |
Ornaments in folk music (2 cr) | 29.9.2025 -23.11.2025 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 40 € | Registration has ended |
Ornaments in folk music ONLINE COURSE (2 cr) | 30.9.2024 -24.11.2024 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Performance and learning coaching 1 (3 cr) | 2.9.2025 -16.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Programming with Max 1 (4 cr) | 10.9.2025 -3.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Reading Queer-reading circle (2 cr) | 23.10.2025 -26.2.2026 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts, Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Reading circle: Body, embodiment and corporeality (6 cr) | 1.9.2025 -31.5.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 180 € | Registration has ended |
Reading circle: Methodologies in/for/of artistic research (6 cr) | 4.9.2025 -31.5.2026 | Contact teaching | Taideyliopisto, Helsinki | 180 € | Registration has ended |
Recitative studio (2 cr) | 30.1.2026 -10.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Repertoire workshop (1 cr) | 10.10.2025 -13.3.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 30 € | Registration has ended |
Sibelius Academy Choir, MAHLER + FAURE (4 cr) Application period extended! | 13.1.2025 -28.3.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Sibelius Academy Choir, OPERA (4 ECTS) Application period extended! | 11.9.2024 -16.11.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Sibelius Academy Choir, SELKIE (3 ECTS) Application period extended! | 2.5.2024 -24.8.2024 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Sonic Diversity of the World (2 cr) | 12.9.2025 -12.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Sound Art & Sonic Arts module (15 cr) | 8.9.2025 -16.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 300€ | Registration has ended |
Sound Art Aesthetics and Practices (5 cr) | 8.9.2025 -17.11.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 150 € | Registration has ended |
Sound Art Project (7 cr) | 25.9.2025 -5.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 210 € | Registration has ended |
SoundShare (3 cr) | 10.9.2025 -19.11.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
Stand-up comedy course (2 cr) | 2.6.2025 -6.6.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts, Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Strategic management in Arts (6 cr) | 23.1.2025 -27.3.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Sustainable Cultural Events and Festivals Management (3 cr) | 1.10.2025 -5.11.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 90 € | Registration has ended |
T-XY332 Loudly together: the power of the ensemble in a musical (1 cr) | 26.5.2025 -28.5.2025 | Contact teaching | Taideyliopisto, Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
The Liveness of Performance Art (2 cr) | 20.10.2025 -17.11.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts, Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
The Whole Singer: autumn 2025 (TUESDAY GROUP) (2 cr) | 16.9.2025 -16.12.2025 | Contact teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Theme seminar: Image research seminar 2025-2026 (4 cr) | 22.9.2025 -24.3.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Vanhan musiikin esityskäytännöt viulisteille (5 cr) | 1.9.2025 -19.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts, Helsinki | 150 | Registration has ended |
Verbalization of Artist’s Creative Skills and Competence Online Course (1-2 cr) | 12.5.2025 -15.8.2025 | Online teaching, Weekend or evening tuition | Uniarts Helsinki | Registration has ended | |
Verbalization of Artist’s Creative Skills and Competence Online Course (2 cr) | 8.9.2025 -31.12.2025 | Online teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 40 € | Registration has ended |
Vocal improvisation (2 cr) | 23.10.2025 -11.12.2025 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 € | Registration has ended |
Voice use and care, group 2 (2 cr) | 2.9.2025 -28.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Voice use and care, group 3 (2 cr) | 2.9.2025 -28.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Voice use and care, group 4 (2 cr) | 2.9.2025 -28.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Voice use and care, group 5 (2 cr) | 2.9.2025 -28.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 60 | Registration has ended |
Workshop for developing a postdoc research project 2025-2026 (4 cr) | 18.9.2025 -16.4.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts Helsinki | 120 € | Registration has ended |
Äänitys- ja äänituotanto 1 (8 cr) | 8.9.2025 -30.3.2026 | Contact teaching | Uniarts, Helsinki | 240 € | Registration has ended |