The Department of Composition features Poznań composers whose works have been highly appreciated at home and abroad. Their artistic and academic activities are aimed at training composers-to-be. The staff constantly improve their qualifications and teaching methods, exchange artistic and teaching experience with other schools and artistic milieux, and perform academic research on broadly understood composing technique. The Department is responsible for the following subjects taught in all faculties of the Academy: Composition, Harmony, Harmony Classes, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instrument Studies, Contemporary Composing Techniques, and Electronic Music.  

The Department organizes such events as:

1. Composers’ concerts  to present the latest works of the Department staff (at least twice a year)
2. The International Forum of Composers to exchange experience of the contemporary musical language among composers from Poland and abroad (eight editions so far) 
3. Student composers’ concerts
4. Open lectures named Ex Cathedra featuring invited speakers from Poland and abroad
5. Occasional composers’ concerts of national and international reputation.

The Department also constitutes a centre for promoting new music, contributes to organizing the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Poznań Musical Spring”, and collaborates with the Polish Composers’ Union. Our composers’ works have been recorded and published by the Paderewski Academy of Music Press. 

Members:

prof. AMP dr hab. Artur Kroschel – Head
Contact: akroschel@amuz.edu.pl

prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Kozub
prof. dr hab. Janusz Stalmierski
prof. dr hab. Rafał Zapała
prof. dr hab. Lidia Zielińska
prof. AMP dr hab. Monika Kędziora
dr hab. Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska
dr hab. Barbara Kaszuba
dr hab. Katarzyna Taborowska-Kaszuba
dr hab. Agnieszka Zdrojek-Suchodolska
dr Michał Garstecki
dr Michał Janocha
dr Wojciech Kaszuba
dr Alina Kubik
dr Radosław Mateja
dr Dominik Puk
dr Artur Żuchowski