Current position: Departments of the Academy: Instrumental Studies
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Instrumental Studies

This is the largest of the AMFC departments. It is responsible for the training of instrumentalists, persons who specialise in playing a musical instrument. Ramified education at this Department is aimed at the training of virtuosos, members of chamber orchestras and orchestra players. Students of all theses disciplines must take the following compulsory subjects: main instrument, orchestra (or choir for accordionists and guitar players), chamber ensembles, playing with accompaniment, literature for their particular instrument.

Instrumental classes are run by the following professors:
violin: Krzysztof B±kowski, Tadeusz Gadzina, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Roman Lasocki, Paweł Łosakiewicz, Krzysztof Podejko, Magdalena Szczepanowska,
and Maria Słubicka-Podejko (Professor AMFC), Jan Stanienda (Professor AMFC), Sławomir Tomasik (Professor AMFC)
viola: Marek Marczyk, Błażej Sroczyński
cello: Kazimierz Michalik, Andrzej Orkisz, Tomasz Strahl, Andrzej Zieliński, Andrzej Bauer (Professor AMFC), Andrzej Wróbel (Professor AMFC), Wojciech Walasek, doc.
double bass: Andrzej Mysiński
flute: Elżbieta Dastych-Szwarc, Elżbieta Gajewska-Gadzina
oboe: Stanisław Malikowski, Tytus Wojnowicz
clarinet: Miroslaw Pokrzywiński, Romuald Gołębiowski
bassoon: Bogumił Gadawski, Zbigniew Płużek
saxophone: Paweł Gusnar
horn: Jan Jezewski, Aleksander Szebesczyk
trumpet: Krzysztof Bednarczyk, Wiesław WoĽnicki
trombone, tuba: Roman Siwek, Marek Żwirdowski
accordion: Jerzy Jurek, Jerzy Łukasiewicz and Assistant Professor Klaudiusz Baran
harp: Urszula Mazurek
guitar: Marcin Zalewski
percussion: Edward Iwicki

Chairs: Chair of String Instruments, Chair of Woodwind and Brass Instruments, Chair of Accordion, Chair of Chamber Music

Units: Unit of Percussion, Unit of Harp and Guitar

Other units: Unit of Early Music, Unit of Contemporary Music

Entrance examination
Examination material according to the entrance examination requirements



Dean: Professor Błażej Sroczyński
Deputy Deans: Professor Jerzy Jurek, Professor Andrzej Mysiński
room 306, tel. (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 289
secretary: Danuta Kaniewska-Jurek, Joanna Małecka-Araszkiewicz, Monika Zakrzewska
e-mail: wi@chopin.edu.pl






Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music