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Belarusian State Academy of Music

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Belarusian State Academy of Music
  • Belarusian State Academy of Music
Abbreviation: BSAM
Website: https://www.bgam.by/
E-mail: international_st@bgam.by
Telephone : +37517 321 21 97
Fax: +37517 328-55-01
City: Minsk
Address : 220030, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
30 International str.
Form of education: full-time
Language(s): Russian, English
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Year of foundation

1932

Total number of students

1200

Number of teachers

244

Doctors of Science

5

Candidates of Science

33

Foreign teachers

1

Number of faculties

5

Faculty Names

  • Piano and Composer-Musicology Faculty
Specialties: Composition. Piano Field of specialty: Art studies (musicology).
  • Vocal and Choral Faculty
Field of specialty: Conducting (academic choir); Singing (academic); Theater direction (musical theater); Choreographic art (pedagogy).
  • Orchestra Faculty
Specialties: Stringed bow instruments (in directions); Harp; Wind instruments (in directions); Percussion instruments.
  • Faculty of Folk Instruments
Specialties: Plucked string instruments (in directions); Accordion-Button accordion.
  • Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining (advanced training, retraining; internship, training courses)


Cost of education

  • ۩ PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT   ۩
5 150 $ US per year – training period 9 months

  • ۩  Ist STAGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ۩
from  6 850 to 7 250 $ US per year – training period 4-5 years
  • ۩ IInd STAGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (MAGISTRACY) ۩
7550 $ US per year – training period 1 year
  • ۩ POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL - 7150 $ US per year, DOCTORAL STUDIES - from 2200 $ US per year  ۩
Training period 3 years

The educational institution includes

  • The Piano and Composer-Musicological Faculty, where specialists are trained in a number of popular musical specialties – “Piano”, “Composition”, “Art criticism (musicology)”. Traditionally, the Piano and Composer-Musicological Faculty leads in the number of students who have become laureates of international performing contests. The faculty is the center of composers’ creativity. The most “high-tech” departments of the Academy of Music are also concentrated here, whose members conduct scientific research in the field of musical art. The youngest and most original of the departments of the faculty is the Department of the History of Music and Belarusian Music Studies, which has no analogues in other institutions of higher musical education. The piano and composer-musicological faculty includes 7 departments: 
Department of Special Piano 
Department of Accompaniment Mastery 
Piano Department
Department of Musical Pedagogy, History and Theory of Performing Arts 
Department of Composition 
Department of the History of Music and Belarusian Music Studies 
Department of Music Theory

  • The Orchestra Faculty is the largest faculty of the Academy of Music in the number of students, as well as in the number of specialties in which training is conducted. Students of the Orchestra Faculty become concert musicians already during their studies, perform in educational orchestral groups and chamber ensembles of various compositions. The faculty team achieved high results, having trained a galaxy of talented musicians. The orchestra faculty includes 5 departments: 
Department of String Bow Instruments 
Department of Woodwind Instruments
 
Department of Brass and Percussion Instruments
 
Department of Chamber Ensemble
 
Department of Orchestral Conducting and Instrumentation

  • The Faculty of Folk Instruments unites the best pedagogical and creative powers of the country, fruitfully working on the development of the art of solo, ensemble and orchestral performance on folk instruments. Far beyond the borders of Belarus, pupils of the national school of playing the folk instruments are famous for their brilliant victories at well-known international competitions. The faculty of folk instruments includes 3 departments: 
Department of Plucked String Instruments 
Department of Button Accordion and Accordion
 
Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines

The activity of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Academy of Music is aimed at educating a professional musician with a wide range of knowledge and skills that go beyond the scope of one specialty. The Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines equips students with relevant information in the field of philosophical and aesthetic, historical, legal, sociocultural knowledge. Five foreign languages are taught at the department, as well as Russian as a foreign language for students, undergraduates and graduate students fr om foreign countries. Thanks to the active work of the department, students of the Academy of Music become physically harmonious individuals who are able to successfully cope with the workloads and requirements of their profession.
  • The Vocal-Choral Faculty is one of the most sought-after by Belarusian and foreign students. All famous contemporary Belarusian singers, artists and conductors of the choir are graduates of the faculty. The Vocal-Choral Faculty conducts a rich concert, creative and touring activity. Great competitive success has been achieved by the student choir of the Academy, wh ere students of the Department of Choral Conducting sing. The creative spirit in the implementation of vivid stage ideas is distinguished by the work of the Opera Studio. The Vocal-Choral Faculty includes 3 departments: 
Department of Choral Conducting 
Department of Singing 
Department of Opera Training and Choreography

  • The Faculty of Continuing Education and Retraining provides professional development for managers and teachers of institutions at all levels of professional music education in Belarus. Further training for executives and specialists is carried out in all specialties taught at the Belarusian State Academy of Music, retraining in the specialties of "Academic Singing", "Interpretation of Ancient Music", "Concertmaster", "Orchestra Conducting". The Mogilev branch of the Academy has been operating since 1990. Training is conducted in the specialties “Piano”, “Wind Instruments (in directions)”, “Stringed Folk Pinch-Percussion Instruments (in directions)”, "Bayan–Accordion"; specialty direction “Conducting (academic choir)”. The fruitful activities of the teaching staff and graduates of the branch contribute to the development of higher musical education and the intensification of concert and creative life in the region. In the structure of the branch there is 1 department: 
Department of conducting and instrumental performance


Key Achievement

  • In 2016, the Academy received a certificate of conformity of the National System for Confirming Conformity of the Republic of Belarus. The certificate certifies that the quality management system in relation to the design and provision of pre-university training services, the training of specialists at stages I and II of higher education, the training of scientific personnel of higher qualifications, advanced training of personnel; the implementation of research, international, educational, concert and educational activities meets the requirements of STB ISO 9001-2009. This confirms the high performance in education, science, international and educational activities.
  • In 2017, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus issued a certificate of state accreditation of an educational institution for compliance with the declared type to the Academy.
  • In 2018, the Academy staff was awarded a special prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus to artists of culture and art for implementing large-scale projects (Talent Krainy, Dakrananna, Easter Festival) aimed at developing the abilities of talented children and youth.

  • Among the outstanding foreign graduates of the Academy, the following Candidates of Art Criticism are: Ne Na (PRC) – Full Professor of the Liaoning Pedagogical Institute; Sun Weibo (PRC) – Rector of Zhengzhou University, Associate Professor; Li Eryun (PRC) – Head of the Department of singing and magistracy of the Academy of Arts of Jiangxing University, Associate Professor; Aziz Madi (Jordan) – Associate Professor at the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, Yarmouk University; Iyad Mohammad (Jordan) – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, Yarmouk University; Bayik Mustafa (Turkey) – Director of the Center for the Arts named after Ahmed Adan Saigun, Izmir, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Belarus in Adana; Alvarez Romero Noelha (Mexico) – Associate Professor and Researcher at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas and others.

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Contact information of departments responsible for admission to training of foreign citizens

Phone: (+375-17) 321 21 97

Fax: (+375-17) 328 55 01

E-mail: international_st@bgam.by

Leading Specialist for Work with Foreign Students

Lyubov Alekseevna Khmelevskaya



The WeChat communication system has group chat for foreign students studying at the Academy of Music.

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