Belarusian State Academy of Music

Belarusian State Academy of Music

Abbreviation: Belarusian State Academy of Music
Telephone : +37517 343 21 97
Fax: +37517 282 55 01
City: Minsk
Address : Legal address: 220030, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
30, International str.
Postal address: 220013, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
22, P.Brovki str.

Form of education: full-time
Language(s): Russian, English
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Year of foundation

1932

Total number of students

1007

Number of teachers

207

Doctors of Science

6

Candidates of Science

36

Number of faculties

4

Faculty Names

  • Piano and Composer-Musicology Faculty
Specialties: 
Composition
Musical and instrumental art (piano)
Musicology.
  • Vocal and Choral Faculty
Specialties:
Conducting
Vocal art Theater directing
Choreographic art.
  • Orchestra Faculty
Specialties:
Musical and instrumental art (violin) 
Мusical and instrumental art (viola) 
Musical and instrumental art (double bass) 
Musical and instrumental art (harp)
Musical and instrumental art (flute)
Musical and instrumental art (oboe) 
Musical and instrumental art (clarinet) 
Musical and instrumental art (bassoon) 
Musical and instrumental art (horn) 
Musical and instrumental art (saxophone) 
Musical and instrumental art (tuba) 
Musical and instrumental art (trumpet) 
Musical and instrumental art (trombone) 
Musical and instrumental art (baritone) 
Musical and instrumental art (percussion instruments)Musical and instrumental art (вayan, accordion) 
Musical and instrumental art (classical guitar) 
Musical and instrumental art (dulcimer) 
Musical and instrumental art (balalaika) 
Musical and instrumental art (domra) 
Musical and instrumental art (mandolin)
  • 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  7 200 to 7 650 $ US per year – training period 4-5 years
  • ۩ SPECIALTY OF ADVANCED HIGHER EDUCATION (MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM), PROVIDING A MASTER'S DEGREE Musical art 7,550 USD per year 1 year study period Musical art with a cycle of "Additional types of study" 8,550 USD per year 1 year of study period musical art in English 9 300 USD per year 1 year of study period
  • ۩ POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL - 7150 $ US per year, DOCTORAL STUDIES - from 2200 $ US per year  Training period 5 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 Music Pedagogy and Social and Humanitarian Disciplines
  • 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 4 departments: 
  • Department of Stringed Bowed Instruments and Chamber Ensemble
  • Department of Wind Instruments and Orchestral Conducting
  • Department of Accordion and Accordion
  • Department of Stringed Folk Instruments

  • 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 2 departments: 
  • Department of Choral Conducting 
  • Department of Singing and Musical Theater Arts
 

Key Achievement

  • IIn December 2022, the Belarusian State Academy of Music (hereinafter referred to as the Academy) celebrated its 90th anniversary. Founded in 1932, the Academy (until 1992 – the Belarusian State Conservatory named after A.V.Lunacharsky) is a major center of the Belarusian musical performing art, musicology and pedagogy*. In 2000, the Academy was awarded the status of the leading Higher education institution of the national system of education in the field of musical art.
  • 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) 343 21 97

Fax: (+375-17) 382 55 01

E-mail: international_st@bgam.by

Leading Specialist for Work with Foreign Students

Lyubov Alekseevna Khmelevskaya



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