Registrations: 15 March to 15 May 2025 until 13:00 hrs

Publication of the provisional list of admitted students: 17 May 2025 (three days to rectify errors)

Publication of the definitive list of admitted students: 21 May 2025

Delivery of grade point average for professional music teaching: before 6 June 2025 until 13:00 hrs

Entrance exams: between 9 and 19 June 2025 (dates by speciality will be published at least fifteen days in advance)

Matriculation: First half of July 2025

Academic records transfers: 1 to 10 July 2025

Reincorporations: 1 to 10 July 2025

Access with an entrance exam from another centre: from 1 to 12 July 2024 until 13:00 hrs

The entrance exams, which will take place between 9 and 19 June 2025, will be held entirely in person.

The theory exams can be taken in Spanish, Basque, French or English. It will be necessary to indicate the desired language on the registration form.

If there are still places available in any speciality, Musikene may hold a new selection process during the month of September, which will be announced at the end of July on the centre’s website.

The registration fee established by Musikene for the entrance exams for the 2025-2026 academic year, for each of the specialities offered, is 80 euros.

Musikene applies the following discounts on the registration fee (the discount will be applied only to the registration fee, and the amount corresponding to accompaniment, if requested, will have to be paid in full):

1. Large family (general category: 50%; special category: 100%)
   • Documentation to be provided when registering: a valid official certificate issued by the Regional Government or competent administration in the matter, stating that the applicant is from a large family and indicating the category.
2. 33% disability or more: 100%
   • Documentation to be provided when registering: Valid certificate of the degree of disability issued by the Regional Government or competent administration in the matter.
3. Victims of terrorism: 100%
   • Documentation to be provided when registering: Valid certificate of eligibility for the Assistance Programme for Victims of Terrorism.
4. Gender-based violence: 100%
   • Documentation to be provided when registering:
     • Court ruling declaring that the woman is or has been a victim of gender-based violence.
     • Protection order in favour of the victim and validity.
     • Report from the Public Prosecution Service showing the existence of indications that the interested party is a victim of gender-based violence pending the issue of the protection order.
     • Report from social services, specialised services, or care services recognised by the Autonomous Communities and Cities at the Sectorial Conference on Equality held on 17 October 2019.
5. Asylum seekers, beneficiaries of international protection and stateless persons: 100%
   • Asylum seekers whose application has been accepted for processing, beneficiaries of international protection and stateless persons may obtain exemption from public fees as long as they do not hold a Bachelor’s degree at the same level. Documentation to be provided: Certificate of administrative residence or census registration and one of the following documents as applicable:
     • Proof of submission of the application for International Protection and, if applicable, the document justifying the extension.
     • Asylum seeker’s document certifying that the application has been accepted for processing (red card).
     • Application for or recognition of stateless person status.
     • Proof of submission of the application for temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine, decision on granting temporary protection or residence card.
     • Certification of beneficiary of international protection: proof of refugee status, beneficiary of public assistance or residence permit for humanitarian reasons.

Yes, up to a maximum of three. It will be necessary to fill in the registration form as many times as the number of specialities for which you are applying. Registration fees must also be paid for each of the specialities. In the admission field, the speciality for which you are applying must be specified in each case.

Works that require it must be performed with accompaniment and candidates may bring their own partner.

Musikene will provide piano accompanists for those candidates who expressly request it in the application form and pay the corresponding fee.

In the case of Jazz Performance, the accompaniment will be with pre-recorded backing track(s) or with partners provided by the candidate him/herself.

Applicants may ask Musikene to provide them with a piano accompanist. In this case, 90 euros must be paid during the registration period. The fee includes accompaniment during the entrance exam and a one-hour rehearsal beforehand, at a time agreed by both parties.

At Musikene, the Pedagogy syllabus includes the subject “Instrument” during the four years of the Bachelor’s Degree. If admitted, students in this speciality must register for this subject with the instrument (or voice in the case of singing) with which they have taken the entrance exam.

The instrument to be used for Part B of the Pedagogy Entrance Exams must be one of those offered by Musikene for the 2025-2026 academic year, as listed below: Accordion, Harp, Singing, Clarinet, Double Bass, Bassoon, Flute, Guitar, Jazz (Electric Bass, Drums, Singing, Double Bass, Guitar, Piano, Saxophone, Trombone and Trumpet), Oboe, Organ, Percussion, Piano, Saxophone, Trombone, Horn, Trumpet, Tuba, Txistu, Viola, Violin and Cello.

The request for cancellation of registration for the Entrance Exams will in no case give rise to the right to a refund of the fees paid for this item.

In the case of the amounts paid for accompaniment (piano accompanist), the deadline for requesting the refund of the fee is 1 June 2025.

The Baccalaureate certificate or, failing that, proof of having applied for it, must be presented at the time of matriculation. It is not essential to present it on the day of the entrance exams.

If you do not have the Baccalaureate, the regulations stipulate that you can gain access by passing the university entrance exam for the over 25s, or by holding a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts, a university degree or a Higher Technician qualification.

Applicants between the ages of 16 and 18 who demonstrate exceptional competence or precocity in the corresponding artistic discipline and who, being unable to meet the requirement of holding the Baccalaureate, pass the maturity exam organized by the Educational Authorities may also be admitted.

It depends on the country of issue. In the case of holding a Higher Secondary Education qualification, diploma or studies or a Baccalaureate Certificate from educational systems of Member States of the European Union or other States with which international agreements applicable in this respect have been signed, on a reciprocal basis, it will not be necessary to have it officially ratified. (List of countries: Germany, Andorra, Austria, International Baccalaureate, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, China, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, European Schools, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, International Baccalaureate qualifications or qualifications from European Schools).

Students from countries that are not on the list must have their foreign Baccalaureate Certificate officially ratified. The centre will conditionally admit students who can prove that they have submitted the corresponding application for official ratification while this is being resolved.

Passing the Musikene entrance exam only entitles the student to matriculate in the academic year for which it has been taken. Consequently, in the event of passing the exam without obtaining the corresponding place and continuing to be interested in accessing these studies at Musikene, applicants must repeat the exam in its entirety in successive calls.

Furthermore, according to Article 5.6 of Royal Decree 631/2010, of 14 May: “Passing this specific exam will allow access to any of the centres in the State where these courses are taught, without prejudice to the availability of places in these centres”.

Requests for grade reviews received within three working days of the publication of the results will be processed. These requests must be duly argued and justified in writing, dated, and signed with a valid ID card, foreigner’s ID card or passport, addressed to “Subdirección de Ordenación Académica” and sent by email to reclamaciones@musikene.eus.

The grade review could lead to an upward or downward change in the initially assigned grade.