MSCT Conference Venues
University of Arts
in Belgrade
The University of Arts in Belgrade was founded in 1957 as an association of four art faculties: the Faculty of Music, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Applied Arts and the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Today, it comprises 2.700 students, more than 470 professors and 70 study programmes in diverse arts disciplines, on undergraduate, master and doctoral level. With the aim to be recognized as a staging ground for new ideas, the University of Arts has developed specific ways of focusing and directing arts education, unifying artistic and theoretical research and providing a platform for interdisciplinary research. Recently launched practice-based doctoral programmes in arts make the University of Arts an exceptional higher education institution in the Region. Connecting traditional experience with contemporary innovations, the University of Arts achieves the highest goals, holding onto fruitful principles: strict selection and a small number of students, teaching process intertwined with professional sector, mentorship and the fact that most of the teachers are at the same time prominent artists. At the University of Arts, young people’s talent and creativity are transformed into artistic careers. Students are directed towards their future professions and trained for future artistic practice. Our alumni are well-known artists and leaders in diverse institutions of art and culture. The University of Arts has profoundly influenced the development of culture and art in our country and the whole region. Being the torchbearer of artistic life, the University of Arts has a decisive contribution in setting up artistic criteria and supporting foundation of other outstanding art faculties in the Region. The bridge connecting artistic practice and theory, individual and group artistic creation, professionalism and artistic freedom, as well as endeavours to connect different artistic and theoretical disciplines in a multidisciplinary way, represent the essential teaching distinctiveness of the University of Arts and ensure its high position among related institutions.
Faculty of Music
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.
