About Us
The Faculty of Music in Belgrade is the main state and the most prominent higher education music institution in Serbia, continuously existing since its foundation in 1937.
As the largest of the faculties within the University of Arts in Belgrade, the Faculty of Music academic and instructional staff comprises over two hundred teachers and teaching associates, along with a few dozen staff members. Close to thousand students are currently enrolled in all levels of studies.
Studies are offered at three levels:
1. Bachelor academic studies, 4 years, 240 ECTS, in study programs:
– Composition
– Performing Arts (modules: Conducting, Vocal studies, Piano, String instruments, Wind instruments, Jazz instruments and Jazz voice, Guitar, Harp, Organ, Harpsichord and Percussions);
– Music Science (modules: Music pedagogy, Musicology, Ethnomusicology with ethnochoreology and Music theory)
2. Master academic studies, 1 year, 60 ECTS, in study programs:
– Composition
– Performing Arts (modules: Chamber music, Conducting, Vocal studies, Piano, String instruments, Wind instruments, Jazz instruments and Jazz voice, Guitar, Harp, Organ, Harpsichord and Percussions);
– Music Science (modules: Music pedagogy, Musicology, Ethnomusicology with ethnochoreology and Music theory)
– Applied research of music;
Master academic studies, 2 years, 120 ECTS, in study program:
– Music direction
3. Specialist academic studies, 1 year, 60 ECTS, in study programs:
– Performing Arts (modules: Chamber music, Conducting, Vocal studies, Piano, String instruments, Wind instruments, Jazz instruments and Jazz voice, Guitar, Harp, Organ, Harpsichord and Percussions);
– Music Science (module: Music theory);
4. PhD academic studies, 3 years, 180 ECTS, in study programs:
– Composition
– Performing Arts (modules: Chamber music, Conducting, Vocal studies, Piano, String instruments, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Guitar, Harp, Harpsichord and Percussions).
– Music Science (modules: Music pedagogy, Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Music theory).
In more than eight decades, the Faculty of Music successfully educated professionals who continually define, shape, create and direct the cultural stage in the country and the region. Furthermore, the Faculty of Music has fundamentally influenced the continuity of music creativity and scientific thinking on music, forming professionals who have been having an invaluable impact on the whole culture in Serbia. Degrees on completed studies at the Faculty of Music have always been valued as a genuine mark of excellence, recognizing wider knowledge applicable in diverse fields of contemporary professions.
The Faculty of Music is located in the capital’s center, in the artistic oasis of the park Manjez, close to the renown Yugoslav Drama Theatre and Student Cultural Centre, always highly relevant to art, culture and music, thus closing this artistic, academic, traditional and progressive circle.