Uniwersytet Muzyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie

address: ul. Okólnik 2
00-368 Warsaw, Poland
phone: +48 22 827 72 41
fax: +48 22 827 83 10
e-mail: info@chopin.edu.pl
internet: www.chopin.edu.pl

The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw

The heritage of the Academy
The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw is among the oldest and the largest schools of music in Poland and in Europe. It inherited a nearly two-hundred-year-old tradition of public music teaching in Warsaw. The school is proud of its outstanding alumni. The most important name linked with the international beginning of the University is that of Fryderyk Chopin, however many other Polish artists of international renown have graduated from this school. The University closely cooperates with music institutions from all over the world. It is a member of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique at Musikhochschulen (AEC), the European League of the Institutions of Arts (ELIA) and the Association of Baltic Academies of Music (ABAM).

The authorities of the school
The rector and prorectors are in charge of the University. The departments are headed by deans and deputy deans.

The faculties of study
The University's six departments in Warsaw and the 7th department in Bialystok provide education in various fields of musical art: instrument playing, vocal studies, conducting, composition and the theory of music, general music education, ballet pedagogy and sound engineering.
The study curriculum comprises specialized and general music subjects such as: aural training, the history of music, structural analysis of music works, choir, chamber music, and general subjects: foreign languages (English, French, German or Russian), sports, philosophy, aesthetics, the history of art, 20th century art, and film history. The lectures are held in Polish and are open to all students. The master's degree examination includes an artistic performance or composition, a dissertation thesis and an oral examination.
Graduates of Polish and foreign conservatories of music (BA, MA) have the possibility of attending postgraduate studies at the University.

The home of the University
The building contains sixty-two sound-proof rooms for lectures and individual classes. There is also a concert hall (450 seats), the Szymanowski lecture auditorium adapted for film projections (150 seats), the Melcer chamber music hall (160 seats), the Moniuszko opera hall, a rhythmics room, three music recording and soundtrack studios, a library and reading room, the "Gama" students' club, the school canteen, and doctor's and dentist's clinic. There is also a music bookshop, an antiquarian bookshop and music accessories shop.

"Dziekanka" is the dormitory and hotel for the University's guests.
00-322 Warszawa, Krakowskie Przedmieście 58/60, Poland
phone: +48 22 826 49 19, fax: +48 22 826 08 07
e-mail: dziekanka@chopin.edu.pl

Fields of study in Polish

Facts & figures

Famous alumni

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