
The Department of Sound Engineering, one of the first in the world and Poland’s only centre of such a kind, was established in Poland in 1954. Students follow a three-year BA programme, after which they can enrol for two-year MA programme, choosing one of three specialisations: Music Production, Film Sound Engineering, and Sound Engineering in the Multimedia. Graduates of second cycle studies may find employment in such areas as music recording, sound engineering, film sound operating, music illustration, as well as other music professions connected with sound creation.
Main and major subjects include (among others): music recording, film sound recording, sound creation in the multimedia, documentary recordings, realisation of electronic music, sound illustration, sound effects recording, score analysis in music recording, film sound aesthetics, history of film, studio techniques, timbre solfege, acoustics, electroacoustics, or fundamentals of electronics. Musical subjects include: score reading, music literature, aural training, piano playing, choir, orchestration, arrangement, or seminar in jazz.
From the academic year 2012/2013, studies for the specialisation of Sound Engineering in the Multimedia, have been carried out as the continuation of the project co-financed by the Operating Programme “Human Capital” as part of the European Social Fund. From the academic year 2010/2011, candidates for the second cycle studies in the specialties of Music Production and Film and TV Sound Engineering 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 Specialty offered by 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.
Major subjects are taught by the following professors: Andrzej Bohdanowicz, Ryszard Borowski, Katarzyna Dzida-Hamela, Krzysztof Jastrząb, Krzysztof Kuraszkiewicz, Ewa Lasocka, Małgorzata Lewandowska, Andrzej Lupa, Andrzej Miśkiewicz, Joanna Napieralska, Barbara Okoń-Makowska, Witold Osiński, Małgorzata Przedpełska-Beniek, Katarzyna Rakowiecka-Rojsza, Jarosław Regulski, Krzysztof Szlifirski, Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski, Jan Żera.
Dean: Professor Małgorzata Lewandowska, DMus Hab.
Deputy Dean: Professor Witold Osiński, DMus Hab.
secretary: Anna Szewczyk MA
room 309, tel. (48) 22 2789 283
e-mail: w6@chopin.edu.pl