CONDUCTING - Symphony and Opera Conducting, first-cycle,

Teachers conducting classes in the main subject: 

• prof. dr hab. Monika Wolińska
• prof. dr hab. Jan Miłosz Zarzycki
• dr hab. Rafał Janiak, Associate Professor
• dr hab. Michał Klauza, Associate Professor

Tests

Stage 1

• conducting a prepared symphony piece and an interview with particular emphasis put on basics of organology – a practical and oral test
• ear training – a written test

Stage 2

• ear training – an oral test
• piano with elements of sight reading with an option to present any piece on instrument chosen by candidate

Scope of material

• ear training:
• a written test: memory dictation, harmonic dictation, three-part dictation, error correction,
• an oral test: a pitch test (melodic and harmonic), sense of rhythm, music memory and imagination, sight singing,
• basics of organology – an oral test: ranges, transposing, characteristics of orchestra instruments, historic development of music ensembles (handbooks: K. Sikorski, M. Drobner),
• piano – a baroque polyphonic or polyphonizing piece; a classical form (to be chosen from sonata-allegro, rondo or variations); a study (or a piece fulfilling the criteria of so-called figurative melodics); a piece of candidate’s choice (from romanticism to the contemporary era) – with an option of performing on any instrument (candidate provides the instrument on his own), sight reading.

Additional documents

must be sent to dyrygentura@chopin.edu.pl by 03.06.2026. The composer’s name and the detailed title of the work conducted during the exam. A piece with piano reduction available (for example at the library of the Chopin University of Music) must be chosen.