Bachelor in Conducting

Conducting is a bachelor's programme delivered in English at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. The degree takes three years to complete, with yearly tuition of 5500 EUR. The Academy was founded in 1929 and is located in a neo-Gothic building where it hosts concerts, master classes, workshops, competitions, and conferences at both national and international levels, alongside its teaching activities. Its organizational structure consists of two departments: the Composition, Interpretation, Education and Jazz Department, and the Vocal-Instrumental Department. Studies are offered across many fields, including composition and music theory, conducting, artistic education in music, jazz, instrumental performance, vocal performance, and church music. Since the 2011/2012 academic year, the Academy has offered paid studies in select specialties taught in English. Faculty include pianists, a harpist, a guitarist, an organist, a harpsichordist, an accordionist, and a cellist, as well as musicians from the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. Conducting trains students to direct orchestras, choirs, and opera ensembles, building skills in score study, rehearsal leadership, and interpretation across symphonic and choral repertoire. The full programme name for this track is Composition, Conducting and Music Theory, with specialties in Symphony and Opera Conducting and Choir Conducting. Graduates typically go on to conduct orchestras, choirs, or opera productions, or to teach and work within cultural and educational institutions that need strong musical leadership and interpretive expertise.