Academy of Music in Łódź

Academy of Music in Łódź
Akademia Muzyczna w Łodzi

AM Rectorate at ul. Gdańska street
Type public
Established Early 20th century
Rector Professor Antoni Wierzbiński
Location Łódź, Poland
Website Homepage

Academy of Music in Łódź (Polish: Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi), is a government-funded Institution of higher education in Łódź, Poland. It was created at the turn of the 20th century as the Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowa Music Conservatory. After World War II, the Academy was reactivated as the State Conservatory of Music (April 18, 1945). It was re-structured as the Music Academy by the Act of Polish Parliament in 1982. Since 1999 it is named after one of its Rectors, as the Grażyna i Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music.[1]

Among the former rectors of the Academy were such luminaries of the Polish music scene as Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1945-1947), cellist, composer, conductor and brother of Wanda Wiłkomirska, as well as Kazimierz Sikorski (1947-1954), recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1937), composer of symphonies, overtures and concertos.[1]

Faculties

Each of the four faculties of the Academy is divided into several departments, and institutes:[2]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "Historia Uczelni". Akademia Muzyczna w Łodzi (homepage). Retrieved June 15, 2012.
  2. Description of Studies, Faculties and Departments. Akademia Muzyczna w Łodzi (homepage). Retrieved June 16, 2012.

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