About us

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Head

dr hab. Paweł Łuczak
e-mail: pluczak@amuz.edu.pl

Deputy Head

mgr Agnieszka Gadzina
e-mail: agadzina@amuz.edu.pl

Office of the Institutes of Conducting, Composition and Music Theory, and Artistic Education, D120

Office Hours: Monday–Friday –12 p.m.–2 p.m.
tel. (+48) 61 85 68 932

mgr Jagoda Anna Musiał
e-mail: jmusial@amuz.edu.pl

mgr Zofia Zwierzchowska
e-mail: zzwierzchowska@amuz.edu.pl

History of the Institute

The Institute of Artistic Education was established in 2019 as a result of the restructuring of the Poznań Academy of Music in accordance with the Law 2.0 on Higher Education and Science of July 20, 2018. Operating within the structure of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting, Vocal Studies, Music Theory and Artistic Education, it continues the traditions of the Faculty of Choral Conducting, Music Education and Church Music. These traditions date back to the 1920s, when the then State Academy and School of Music had three-year preparatory courses for secondary school music and vocal teachers. Since 1935, a faculty structure was adopted at the State Conservatory of Music in Poznan. The training of music teachers for elementary, secondary and vocational schools was carried out in Faculty VI. After the war, as part of the new organization of the State Conservatory of Music in Poznań, teacher training was carried out in Teacher Training Faculty IV. In 1951/1952, the Faculty changed its name to Teacher-Instructor, and in 1954 it was renamed the Faculty of Music Pedagogy and Conducting of Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles. 

The activities of Faculty IV have always been closely related to the current cultural and educational policy of the state. In 1960, the faculty changed its name to the Pedagogical Faculty. Since 1964, in connection with the introduction of the subject of Music Education in general schools, the faculty was known as the Faculty of Music Education. Particularly noteworthy is the figure of Professor Edmund Maćkowiak – choral conductor, composer, teacher, singing activist, great organizer, rector (1967-1971), dean of Faculty IV (1950-1960, 1967-1971), founder and head of the Department of Music Education Issues (1961-1971). The Department became the leading one in the country. Prof. Maćkowiak was the author of numerous articles on the development of the amateur music movement, the training of conductors for the movement and the dissemination of music, a reviewer of many music education programs for the Ministry of Education, and the author of new programs for higher teacher training schools. 

Over the following decades, Faculty IV underwent changes in its name and organizational structure: in 1991-1997 it was called the Faculty of Music Education and Eurhythmics; in 1997-2001 – the Faculty of Choral Conducting, Music Education and Eurhythmics; from 2002 to 2018 – the Faculty of Choral Conducting, Music Education and Church Music (with the Section of Church Music established in 1998).

Description of the Institute

The Institute of Artistic Education conducts education in the major of Artistic Education in the field of Musical Art in the following specializations:

• Music Education (Bachelor and Master)
• Church Music (Bachelor and Master).

Music Education:

• enables students to obtain qualifications in academic and teaching activities in higher schools and teacher training institutions that offer the major of Artistic Education in the field of Musical Art
• prepares for teaching in first- and second-level music education and general education
• gives skills to lead amateur and school vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental ensembles
• prepares for activities in cultural institutions and in the media, as well as for the animation of musical life in various musical environments.

Church Music:

• enables students to gain qualifications in organ and liturgical playing
• prepares to lead amateur, church and school vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental ensembles
• prepares for activities in churches, cultural institutions and the media, as well as for the animation of musical life in various musical environments
• gives the opportunity (within the framework of optional classes) to realize training subjects preparing for the teaching profession in accordance with the current regulation.

The Institute includes the Department of Music Education, the Department of Church Music, and the Department of Voice Projection. The mission of the Institute is to educate artist musicians and teachers who will pursue teaching and artistic careers in all areas of musical culture, both at the amateur and professional level, thus popularizing music and all forms of musical culture in wide circles of society. This mission is carried out through:

• comprehensive education and development of musical talents and abilities
• teaching musical artisanship in a master-student relationship
• guiding students to reach beauty
• constantly showing the present through the historical context according to the motto “there is no present without the past”
• education for creative activity for the sake of national culture.

The Institute conducts academic research and, through its substantive units, organizes or co-organizes the following events:

• International Conferences of the series “Modern Methods of Music Education”
• International Academic Symposia in the series  “Convenium Musicae Sacrae dedicatum”
• National Academic Conferences “Let’s Give Children Their Voice (Back)”
• Wielkopolska Competitions of School Children’s and Teen Songs
• a wide variety of oncerts, courses and workshops.