Heidelberg Music Program
This program was offered in Summer 2025 and is not being offered for this upcoming year.
The hills are alive with the sound of Heidelberg! Students will study music and perform a concert in Germany. This program, which operates in concert with the Seaver College Fine Arts Division, is for music majors and minors and is by audition only.
Program Dates
May 11, 2025 - July 4, 2025
Dates above indicate a planned departure date from the US and in-country return departure date.
Costs
Health & Safety
Visa Information
Course Requirements and Offerings
Refer to the academics page for details on the minimum unit requirements and class pre-requisites for the program. Textbook lists will be provided by the program staff.
Faculty-in-Residence
Keith Colclough
keith.colclough@pepperdine.edu
Associate Professor of Voice & Director of Opera
Fine Arts Division, Seaver College
Keith Colclough is an Associate Professor of Music at Seaver College. He teaches private voice lessons and diction, and he directs the Flora L. Thornton Opera Program. Dr. Colclough and his family have a strong connection to Germany. He participated in the Heidelberg Summer Music Program as a Pepperdine student in 2006, and this will be his fifth time serving as faculty in residence. He also studied at the Musikhochschule in nearby Mannheim, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. His wife, Maya, and daughter, Ella, are dual German-USA citizens. They are all excited to spend another summer making music, eating gelato, and getting to know the students and faculty who will join them.