Department of Church Music

The Department was founded on 1 October 2019 following the UMFC Senate Resolution no. 37/209/2019 of 28 June 2019 (followed by the UMFC Rector’s Ordinance no. 32/2019 of 19 July 2019 on the creation of the Department of Church Music at the UMFC). It trains church musicians: conductors of choirs and parish ensembles, organists, gregorianists and promoters of music life, offering them 1st and 2nd cycle studies, major: Church Music, specialties: Church Music, Cantor and Conductor, Liturgical Monody, or Organist.

The programme consisting of group and one-to-one classes is varied. The following specialties are offered:
•    Church Music — group of major classes: Conducting, Organ, Organ Improvisation and Liturgical Accompaniment; group of basic subjects: Voice Production, History of Polish Liturgical Music, History, theory and Semiology of Gregorian Chant, Gregorian Chant, Vocal Ensemble for Church Music, Harmony Exercises, Organology and Topics in Organ Protection, Maintenance and Documentation, Liturgy, Liturgical Music Legislation and Liturgical Singing, Methodics of Group Voice Production,
•    Organist – group of major classes: Organ, Organ Improvisation and Liturgical Accompaniment; group of basic and general classes: Voice Production, Conducting, Organ Chamber Music, Specialist Organ Literature, Gregorian Schola, Vocal Ensemble for Church Music, Specialist Church Music Literature, Topics in Organ Protection, Maintenance and Documentation, Methodics of Group Voice Production,
•    Liturgical Monody – group of major classes: Gregorian Conducting, Gregorian Schola; group of basic and general classes: Conducting, Voice Production and Liturgical Singing, Organ, Organ Improvisation and Liturgical Accompaniment, European Pre-Polyphony, Vocal Ensemble for Church Music, Specialist Church Music Literature, Methodics of Group Voice Production, Psychology of Ensemble Work,
•    Cantor and Conductor —  group of major classes: Conducting, Organ, Vocal Ensemble for Church Music; group of basic and general classes: Voice Production and Liturgical Singing, Organ Improvisation and Liturgical Accompaniment, Gregorian Schola, Specialist Music Literature, Specialist Church Music Literature, Specialist Solfege, Vocal Ensembles – Practical Training, Methodics of Group Voice Production, Psychology of Ensemble Work.