INSTRUMENTAL STUDIES

• Instru­men­tal Stud­ies
  • Chair of String Instruments
  • Chair of Wind Instruments
  • Interuni­ver­si­tary Chair of Accordion
  • Inter­de­part­men­tal Chair of Cham­ber Music
  • Unit of Harp, Gui­tar and Percussion
  • Inter­de­part­men­tal Unit of Early Music

This is the largest of the FCUM 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 Bąkowski, Tadeusz Gadz­ina, Kon­stanty Andrzej Kulka, Roman Lasocki, Paweł Łosakiewicz, Krzysztof Pode­jko, Mag­dalena Szczepanowska, and Andrzej Gęb­ski (Pro­fes­sor FCUM), Jan Stanienda (Pro­fes­sor FCUM), Sła­womir Tomasik (Pro­fes­sor FCUM)
viola: Marek Mar­czyk, Błażej Sroczyński (Pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus), and Ryszard Duź (Pro­fes­sor FCUM), Dorota Sroczyńska (Pro­fes­sor FCUM)
cello: Tomasz Strahl, Andrzej Zieliński (Pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus), Andrzej Bauer (Pro­fes­sor FCUM), Andrzej Wró­bel (Pro­fes­sor FCUM)
dou­ble bass: Andrzej Mysiński
flute: Elż­bi­eta Dastych-Szwarc (Pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus), Elż­bi­eta Gajewska-Gadzina
oboe: Arka­diusz Krupa, Tytus Wojnow­icz
clar­inet: Mirosław Pokrzy­wiński, Romuald Gołębiowski
bas­soon: Bogu­mił Gadawski (Pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus), Zbig­niew Płużek
sax­o­phone: Paweł Gus­nar
horn: Kaz­imierz Machala,  Alek­sander Szebesczyk
trum­pet: Krzysztof Bed­nar­czyk
trom­bone, tube: Roman Siwek, Marek Żwirdowski
accor­dion: Jerzy Łukasiewicz, Klaudiusz Baran
harp: Urszula Mazurek
gui­tar: Marcin Zalewski
per­cus­sion: Edward Iwicki, Stanisław Skoczyński

From the Aca­d­e­mic Year 2010/2011 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 the entrance exam­i­na­tion require­ments


Dean: Pro­fes­sor Tomasz Strahl
Deputy Deans: Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Paweł Gus­nar, DA, Pro­fes­sor Ryszard Duź
Room 306, tel. (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 289
Sec­re­tary: Danuta Kaniewska-Jurek MA, Justyna Deka MA, Emilia Ogrodzka-Nowak MA
e-mail: wi@chopin.edu.pl