Heidelberg Music Program
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
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
Director of Opera
Fine Arts Division, Seaver College
Praised in Opera News for his "rich authoritative" voice, Bass-baritone Keith Colclough is equally at home as a performer, scholar, and educator. He maintains an active performing career and has been a soloist with a number of arts organizations, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera Santa Barbara, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Pacific Opera Project, LACMA Sundays Live, Salastina Society, and the Santa Barbara Choral Society. He also gives frequent recitals of art songs and musical theater, and has significant experience as a choral and studio singer.
Dr. Colclough has been a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Opera Center, and Songfest. He was a studio artist at Opera Santa Barbara and a member of their improvisation-based outreach program, Opera Lab, improvising operas at elementary schools throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura County.
After completing his undergraduate work at Pepperdine, Dr. Colclough was awarded a Student Fulbright Scholarship to Mannheim, Germany, where he studied voice at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and performed with the Opernschule. Dr. Colclough continued his study of German language and vocal literature through his DMA Document, "Schubert's Incorporation and Transcendence of Recitative in Lieder," which explores the influence of opera and cantata on early German Lieder. He is also interested in vocal acoustics and vowel perception. Dr. Colclough has served on the faculty at the AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, and he tunes pianos.