Bachelor in Jazz and stage music

Tuition fees for Bachelor in Jazz and stage music are 6,425 USD per year.

Jazz and Stage Music is a bachelor's programme at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, running for three years, taught in English, with an annual tuition fee 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: Composition, Interpretation, Education and Jazz, and Vocal-Instrumental. Across the Academy, studies are offered in composition and music theory, conducting, artistic education in music, jazz, instrumental performance, vocal performance, and church music, and since the 2011/2012 academic year the Academy has offered paid studies in select specialties taught in English. Faculty include pianists such as Professor Andrzej Jasiński, Józef Stompel and Wojciech Świtała, harpist Professor Helga Storck, guitarist Professor Alina Gruszka, organist Professor Julian Gembalski, harpsichordist Professor Marek Toporowski, accordionist Professor Joachim Pichura, and cellist Professor Paweł Głombik, alongside faculty members who perform with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. A jazz and stage music education of this kind typically combines instrumental or vocal performance training, music theory, arranging, and ensemble work, preparing graduates for careers as performers, session musicians, composers, arrangers, and music educators within and beyond Poland.