Procedure for application for freshmen year

• Gen­eral infor­ma­tion and tests dates
• Pro­ce­dure for appli­ca­tion for fresh­men year
• Knowl­edge and skill tests for the dif­fer­ent depart­ments and specialties
• Test mate­r­ial
• Con­sul­ta­tion courses
• Coor­di­na­tors for enrol­ment pro­ce­dure and stud­ies for for­eign students
• Appli­ca­tion form (in Polish)

BA stud­ies

All appli­cants for Bach­e­lor of Arts stud­ies must sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments to the appro­pri­ate depart­ment office no later than 31st May 2012 (the date on the post­mark is what counts):

1. Appli­ca­tion form — to down­load as the pdf file: podanie (in Pol­ish). It should be filled in using cap­i­tal let­ters only.
2. School-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate — orig­i­nal or copy cer­ti­fied by a school. The doc­u­ment is required to include an offi­cial infor­ma­tion that it qual­i­fies a can­di­date for stud­ies in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate (this infor­ma­tion may be issued by edu­ca­tional author­i­ties or Pol­ish con­sulate in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate or embassy or con­sulate of the coun­try of issue in Poland).
   The school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate must more­over include an apos­tille or must be legalised (apos­tille or legal­i­sa­tion is a way to have legal doc­u­ments mutu­ally rec­og­nized by other coun­tries; apos­tille is issued by edu­ca­tional author­i­ties in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate, legal­i­sa­tion is issued by a Pol­ish con­sulate in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate).
   Can­di­dates leav­ing school this year shall sub­mit a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion stat­ing that they have been allowed to sit their school-leaving exam­i­na­tion and shall sub­mit their school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate no later than 16 July 2012 [non-negotiable deadline].
3. Orig­i­nal of sworn trans­la­tion into Pol­ish language.
4. Nos­tri­fi­ca­tion of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate (which is issued in Poland by the Mazowieckie Kura­to­rium Oświaty www.kuratorium.waw.pl or a kura­to­rium com­pe­tent with respect to the place of res­i­dence). If nec­es­sary to get detailed infor­ma­tion about nos­tri­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dure, please con­tact Dział Naucza­nia 48–22 826 46 34 e-mail: zajacowna@chopin.edu.pl or pawlowska@chopin.edu.pl
5. Med­ical cer­tifi­cate issued by a spe­cial­ist in occu­pa­tional med­i­cine, accord­ing to the Min­is­ter of Heath and Social Wel­fare reg­u­la­tions of 11.08.2010 (med­ical exam­i­na­tion requests are issued by the appro­pri­ate depart­ment office).
6. Two up-to-date pho­tographs (com­ply­ing with reg­u­la­tions for iden­tity card pho­tographs), vis­i­ble left semi-profile with the ear uncov­ered.
7. Pho­to­copy of iden­tity card (twice enlarged).
8. Pho­to­copy of Karta Polaka (twice enlarged; if con­cerns), pho­to­copy of karta pobytu (twice enlarged; if concerns).
9. A doc­u­ment con­firm­ing knowl­edge of Pol­ish lan­guage (one of the ones listed below): B1 Cer­tifi­cate (or higher), (more on: http://certyfikatpolski.pl) or Studium Języka Pol­skiego dla Cud­zoziem­ców cer­tifi­cate or school-leaving cer­tifi­cate of a sec­ondary school with Pol­ish lan­guage as a lan­guage of instruction.

Before the enrol­ment pro­ce­dure begins can­di­dates must issue the exam­i­na­tion fee. The exact amount will be given in the noti­fi­ca­tion of per­mis­sion to sit the exam­i­na­tion.
The fee is not refund­able.
The exact amount of fee for the enrol­ment pro­ce­dure for the aca­d­e­mic year 2012/2013 — will be given after being spec­i­fied by the Min­istry of Sci­ence and Higher Education.

Please make your pay­ment to:

Uni­w­er­sytet Muzy­czny Fry­deryka Chopina
ul. Okól­nik 2, 00–368 Warszawa
RAIFFEISEN BANK POLSKA S.A.
62 1750 0009 0000 0000 1333 6188

Can­di­dates for stud­ies at the Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Ped­a­gog­i­cal Stud­ies in Białys­tok make their pay­ment to the fol­low­ing bank account:

Uni­wer­sy­tet Muzy­czny Fry­de­ryka Cho­pina
Wydział Instrumentalno-Pedagogiczny w Bia­łym­stoku
ul. Kawa­le­ryj­ska 5, 15–324 Białys­tok
RAIFFEISEN BANK POLSKA S.A.
72 1750 0009 0000 0000 1333 6202

Appli­cants for the BA Stud­ies must also sup­ply the fol­low­ing documents:

Depart­ment 1

- spe­cialty: Composition

• at least 3 orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions to be sub­mit­ted together with the appli­ca­tion form to be inspected before­hand by the exam­i­na­tion committee

- spe­cialty: Sym­phony and Opera Conducting

• name of the com­poser and title of the per­formed work to be sent together with the appli­ca­tion form

Depart­ment 2

• exam­i­na­tion programme

Depart­ment 3

• list of com­pleted mate­r­ial signed by tutor
• entrance exam­i­na­tion programme
• scores of pieces to be per­formed dur­ing the exam­i­na­tion and accom­pa­nied by the FCUM accompanist

Depart­ment 4

• singing exam­i­na­tion pro­gramme (see: test mate­r­ial for the Depart­ment of Vocal Studies)
• scores of pieces to be per­formed dur­ing the exam­i­na­tion and accom­pa­nied by the FCUM accompanist

Depart­ment 5

- spe­cial­ties: Con­duct­ing Music Ensem­bles; Church Music

• scores of pieces to be con­ducted plus their piano reductions
• for the voice pro­duc­tion exam­i­na­tion one must sub­mit the scores of the per­formed pieces
• the can­di­date must give the name of the instru­ment on which she or he will per­form the exam­i­na­tion and sub­mit the scores of the per­formed pieces

Depart­ment 6

• audio­met­ric test must be car­ried out at the FCUM before exams and its results should be sub­mit­ted by the can­di­dates Appoint­ments should be made at the Chair of Musi­cal Acoustics’s office. Phone: (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 232. The test is free.
• scores or pho­to­copies of piano scores of exam­i­na­tion pieces if the can­di­date does not have his/her own accom­pa­nist (this applies to appli­cants who will be play­ing an instru­ment with piano accompaniment)

Depart­ment 7 in Białystok

- spe­cialty: Instru­men­tal Pedagogy

• list of com­pleted mate­r­ial signed by tutor
• entrance exam­i­na­tion programme
• scores (or their bound pho­to­copies) of piano parts for the entrance exam­i­na­tion (does not apply to pianists). Can­di­dates who state in writ­ing that they will sit the exam­i­na­tion with their own accom­pa­nist are excused from this obligation

- spe­cialty: Solo Singing

• entrance exam­i­na­tion programme
• scores (or their bound pho­to­copies) of piano parts for the entrance exam­i­na­tion (does not apply to pianists). Can­di­dates who state in writ­ing that they will sit the exam­i­na­tion with their own accom­pa­nist are excused from this obligation

- spe­cial­i­ties Con­duct­ing Music Ensembles/School at Music/Church Music. For the exam test­ing con­duct­ing (man­ual) and vocal skills one should bring scores of the per­formed piece (2 copies).

 

MA stud­ies

All appli­cants for Mas­ter of Arts stud­ies must sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments to the appro­pri­ate depart­ment office no later than 15th June 2012, per­son­ally or by post (the date on the post­mark is what counts). Bal­let Ped­a­gogy or Chore­og­ra­phy and The­ory of Dance (extra­mural stud­ies) sub­mit the doc­u­ments until 5th Sep­tem­ber 2012:

1. Appli­ca­tion form — to down­load as the pdf file: podanie (in Pol­ish). It should be filled in using cap­i­tal let­ters only.
2. School-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate — orig­i­nal or copy issued by a school. The doc­u­ment is required to include an offi­cial infor­ma­tion that it qual­i­fies a can­di­date for stud­ies in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate (this infor­ma­tion may be issued by edu­ca­tional author­i­ties or Pol­ish con­sulate in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate or embassy or con­sulate of the coun­try of issue in Poland).
   The school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate must more­over include an apos­tille or must be legalised (apos­tille or legal­i­sa­tion is a way to have legal doc­u­ments mutu­ally rec­og­nized by other coun­tries; apos­tille is issued by edu­ca­tional author­i­ties in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate, legal­i­sa­tion is issued by a Pol­ish con­sulate in a coun­try of issue of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion certificate).
3. Orig­i­nal of sworn trans­la­tion into Pol­ish lan­guage of the com­pleted school-leaving exam­i­na­tion certificate.
4. Nos­tri­fi­ca­tion of the school-leaving exam­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate (which is issued in Poland by the Mazowieckie Kura­to­rium Oświaty www.kuratorium.waw.pl or a kura­to­rium com­pe­tent with respect to the place of res­i­dence). If nec­es­sary to get detailed infor­ma­tion about nos­tri­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dure, please con­tact Dział Naucza­nia 48–22 826 46 34 e-mail: zajacowna@chopin.edu.pl or pawlowska@chopin.edu.pl
5. Diploma of at least Bach­e­lor of Arts stud­ies (BA Stud­ies). In case of can­di­dates fin­ish­ing their BA Stud­ies in the sum­mer ses­sion of the aca­d­e­mic year of 2011/2012 – a doc­u­ment cer­ti­fy­ing that they are admit­ted to sit the BA exam or that the exam is in progress. An orig­i­nal or a copy of the BA diploma should be sub­mit­ted by 30th July 2012 [non-negotiable dead­line]. For can­di­dates for the Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing only: Per­sons who will have their BA exam­i­na­tion in the Sep­tem­ber ses­sion will be allowed to par­tic­i­pate in the enrol­ment pro­ce­dure con­di­tion­ally, on the basis of the doc­u­ment cer­ti­fy­ing that they are allowed to sit the BA exam. A doc­u­ment from a candidate’s par­ent uni­ver­sity cer­ti­fy­ing that she or he passed the BA exam­i­na­tion will decide whether a can­di­date will be accepted or not and it should be sub­mit­ted by 27th Sep­tem­ber 2012. An orig­i­nal or a copy of the diploma should be sub­mit­ted by 31th Octo­ber 2012.
   The diploma must include an apos­tille or must be legalised (apos­tille or legal­i­sa­tion is a way to have legal doc­u­ments mutu­ally rec­og­nized by other coun­tries; apos­tille is issued by edu­ca­tional author­i­ties in a coun­try of issue of the diploma, legal­i­sa­tion is issued by a Pol­ish con­sulate in a coun­try of issue of the diploma).
6. Orig­i­nal of sworn trans­la­tion into Pol­ish lan­guage of the diploma of Bach­e­lor of Arts stud­ies (BA studies).
7. Med­ical cer­tifi­cate issued by a spe­cial­ist in occu­pa­tional med­i­cine, accord­ing to the Min­is­ter of Heath and Social Wel­fare reg­u­la­tions of 11.08.2010 (med­ical exam­i­na­tion requests are issued by the appro­pri­ate depart­ment office).
8. Two up-to-date pho­tographs (com­ply­ing with reg­u­la­tions for iden­tity card pho­tographs), vis­i­ble left semi-profile with the ear uncov­ered.
9. Pho­to­copy of iden­tity card (twice enlarged).
10. Pho­to­copy of Karta Polaka (twice enlarged; if con­cerns), pho­to­copy of karta pobytu (twice enlarged; if concerns).
11. A doc­u­ment con­firm­ing knowl­edge of Pol­ish lan­guage (one of the ones listed below): B1 Cer­tifi­cate (or higher), (more on: http://certyfikatpolski.pl) or Studium Języka Pol­skiego dla Cud­zoziem­ców cer­tifi­cate or school-leaving cer­tifi­cate of a sec­ondary school with Pol­ish lan­guage as a lan­guage of instruc­tion.
    Atten­tion: can­di­dates apply­ing for Instru­men­tal Stud­ies, spe­cialty: Piano Play­ing with Eng­lish as the lan­guage of tuition are exempt from hav­ing to cer­tify their knowl­edge of Polish.

Before the enrol­ment pro­ce­dure begins can­di­dates must issue the exam­i­na­tion fee. The exact amount will be given in the noti­fi­ca­tion of per­mis­sion to sit the examination.

The fee is not refund­able.
The exact amount of fee for the enrol­ment pro­ce­dure for the aca­d­e­mic year 2012/2013 — will be given after being spec­i­fied by the Min­istry of Sci­ence and Higher Education.

Please make your pay­ment to:

Uni­w­er­sytet Muzy­czny Fry­deryka Chopina
ul. Okól­nik 2, 00–368 Warszawa
RAIFFEISEN BANK POLSKA S.A.
62 1750 0009 0000 0000 1333 6188

Can­di­dates for stud­ies at the Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Ped­a­gog­i­cal Stud­ies in Białys­tok make their pay­ment to the fol­low­ing bank account:

Uni­wer­sy­tet Muzy­czny Fry­de­ryka Cho­pina
Wydział Instrumentalno-Pedagogiczny w Bia­łym­stoku
ul. Kawa­le­ryj­ska 5, 15–324 Białys­tok
RAIFFEISEN BANK POLSKA S.A.
72 1750 0009 0000 0000 1333 6202

Appli­cants for the MA Stud­ies must also sup­ply the fol­low­ing documents:

Depart­ment 1

- spe­cialty: Composition

• At least 5 orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions to be sub­mit­ted together with the appli­ca­tion form to be inspected before­hand by the exam­i­na­tion committee

- spe­cialty: Sym­phony and Opera Conducting

• names of the three com­posers and titles of the per­formed works to be sent together with the appli­ca­tion form (the exam­i­na­tion com­mit­tee will decide which of the works the can­di­date will conduct)

Depart­ment 2

• exam­i­na­tion programme

Depart­ment 3

• list of com­pleted mate­r­ial signed by tutor
• entrance exam­i­na­tion programme
• scores of pieces to be per­formed dur­ing the exam­i­na­tion and accom­pa­nied by the FCUM accompanist

Depart­ment 4

• singing exam­i­na­tion pro­gramme (see: test mate­r­ial for the Depart­ment of Vocal Studies)
• scores of pieces to be per­formed dur­ing the exam­i­na­tion and accom­pa­nied by the FCUM accompanist

Depart­ment 5

- spe­cial­ties: Choir Con­duct­ing, Church Music

• scores of the pieces con­ducted plus their piano tran­scrip­tions (two copies)
• for the voice pro­duc­tion exam­i­na­tion the can­di­dates should sub­mit the scores of the per­formed pieces

- spe­cialty: Chore­og­ra­phy and The­ory of Dance

• In case a can­di­date has a BA diploma from a Major other than Dance it is nec­es­sary to cer­tify their dance expe­ri­ence and sub­mit doc­u­ments cer­ti­fy­ing chore­o­graphic achieve­ments within the area of dance (cer­tifi­cates of com­ple­tion of courses, work­shops or dance stud­ies, cer­tifi­cates con­nected with dance, awards and com­pe­ti­tion diplomas)
• Atten­tion: Before the exam a can­di­date is obliged to sub­mit CDs with the piece the com­po­si­tion was pre­pared for to the Head of the Exam Committee

Depart­ment 7 in Białystok

- spe­cialty: Instru­men­tal Pedagogy

• list of com­pleted mate­r­ial signed by tutor
• entrance exam­i­na­tion programme
• scores (or their bound pho­to­copies) of piano parts for the entrance exam­i­na­tion (does not apply to pianists). Can­di­dates who state in writ­ing that they will sit the exam­i­na­tion with their own accom­pa­nist are excused from this obligation

- spe­cialty: Solo Singing

• entrance exam­i­na­tion programme
• scores (or their bound pho­to­copies) of piano parts for the entrance exam­i­na­tion (does not apply to pianists). Can­di­dates who state in writ­ing that they will sit the exam­i­na­tion with their own accom­pa­nist are excused from this obligation

- spe­cial­ties Con­duct­ing Music Ensembles/Artistic Edu­ca­tion at School/Church Music. For the exam in Con­duc­tion and Voice Pro­duc­tion one must bring 2 copies of scores of the per­formed pieces.