COMPOSITION, CONDUCTING AND THEORY OF MUSIC

• Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and The­ory of Music
  • Insti­tute of Com­po­si­tion and Sym­phonic Conducting:
  • Chair of Composition
  • Chair of Conducting
  • Insti­tute of Musi­cal Sciences:
  • Chair of The­ory of Music
  • Chair of Humanities

This depart­ment is enti­tled to con­fer doc­toral and post-doctoral degrees (doc­tor of art, habil­i­tated doc­tor of art) in com­po­si­tion and — as the only sci­en­tific unit in the artis­tic higher edu­ca­tion sys­tem — the doc­tor of lib­eral arts in “art sci­ences” degree. The depart­ment offers two lines of train­ing, con­duct­ing and com­po­si­tion, and the­ory of music, in three spe­cial­i­sa­tions: com­po­si­tion, sym­phonic and oper­atic con­duct­ing, and the­ory of music.

Com­po­si­tion trains peo­ple who cre­ate works of music. The pur­pose of this course is to achieve com­pre­hen­sive knowl­edge and skills in com­pos­ing tech­nique, with par­tic­u­lar focus on con­tem­po­rary com­pos­ing tech­niques. Prin­ci­pal sub­jects: com­po­si­tion, instru­men­ta­tion, har­mony, coun­ter­point, con­tem­po­rary com­pos­ing tech­niques, elec­troa­coustic music. The fol­low­ing pro­fes­sors teach com­po­si­tion classes: Krzysztof Bac­ulewski, Zbig­niew Bag­iński, Marcin Błażewicz, Mar­ian Borkowski, Stanisław Moryto.

Sym­phony and Opera Con­duct­ing Sym­phonic and oper­atic con­duct­ing trains con­duc­tors who con­duct sym­phony orches­tras and opera the­atre orches­tras. The pur­pose of this course is to mas­ter per­for­mance (i.e., con­duct­ing) tech­nique and the basic sym­phonic, oper­atic and ora­to­rio reper­tory and also to develop one’s abil­ity to work with a musi­cal ensem­ble. Prin­ci­pal sub­jects: con­duct­ing, score read­ing, orches­tra, instru­men­ta­tion, ear train­ing, har­mony, coun­ter­point. The fol­low­ing pro­fes­sors teach con­duct­ing classes: Tomasz Bugaj, Szy­mon Kawalla, Marek Pijarowski, Antoni Wit.

The­ory of Music trains the­o­rists to do sci­en­tific research and to teach the­o­ret­i­cal sub­jects. It also trains jour­nal­ists, lec­tur­ers and musi­cal event organ­is­ers and pre­pares stu­dents to work for the press, radio and tele­vi­sion. Prin­ci­pal sub­jects: analy­sis of works of music, his­tory of the­ory of music, research tech­nol­ogy, music the­ory sem­i­nar, musi­cal lit­er­a­ture, his­tory of music, his­tory of Pol­ish music, musi­cal forms sem­i­nar, the his­tory of musi­cal forms, musi­cal cri­tique sem­i­nar, analy­sis of musi­cal per­for­mance, musi­cal styles, har­mony, coun­ter­point, his­tory of har­mony and coun­ter­point, ear train­ing. The fol­low­ing pro­fes­sors teach the prin­ci­pal sub­jects: Krzysztof Bac­ulewski, Lud­wik Bielawski, Danuta Dobrowolska-Marucha, Krzysztof Heer­ing, Woj­ciech Nowik, Izabela Tar­gońska, Walen­tyna Węgrzyn-Klisowska.

From the Aca­d­e­mic Year 2012/2013 can­di­dates for the sec­ond degree stud­ies can apply for widen­ing their cho­sen Major with mul­ti­me­dia sub­jects, in a form of an indi­vid­ual plan of stud­ies, as part of the project called the Inter-University Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­gram (MSM) run by the Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing, which is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the project co-financed by the Oper­at­ing Pro­gramme “Human Cap­i­tal” as part of the Euro­pean Social Fund.

Entrance exam­i­na­tion
Exam­i­na­tion mate­r­ial accord­ing to exam­i­na­tion require­ments


Dean: Pro­fes­sor Marcin Błażewicz
Deputy Dean: Pro­fes­sor Edward Sielicki

Sec­re­tary: Ewa Fiedorow­icz MA
Room 304, tel. (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 243
e-mail: wkditm@chopin.edu.pl

Insti­tute of Com­po­si­tion and Sym­phony Con­duc­tung
Insti­tute of Musi­cal Stud­ies
Sec­re­tary: Ewa Bar­ciszewska MA
Room 300, tel. (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 248
e-mail: knh@chopin.edu.pl