Pedagogical Department (Mogilyov)

Dean – Honoured Teacher of Belarus, Honoured Worker of Arts of Belarus, Assistant Professor L. Ivanov

Division Branches :

• Special Piano (Head – Teacher O. Starovoitova);
• Piano (Head - Candidates of Musicology, Assistant Professor O. Shevchenko);
• Orchestra Conducting (Head - Assistant Professor of the Division E. Tsyganok);
• Choral Conducting (Head – Honoured Worker of Culture of Belarus, Assistant Professor A. Benko);
• Folk Instruments (Heads – Assistant Professor of the Division S. Grechiho; Teacher O. Kuznetzova);
• Orchestra instruments (Head – Teacher A. Bosikov).

The Pedagogical Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music was organized in 1990 in the city of Mogilyov. The opening of the Department was part of the program of development of regional higher musical education in the country which is being consistently implemented by the Academy of Music. From the very start of its operation, the Pedagogical Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music had its aim to train musical and pedagogical cadre for the Mogilyov Region. The Department is training students in specialties "Instrumental Performance" (piano, string, wind and folk instruments), "Choral Conducting", "Singing". The Department has formed the students' orchestra of folk instruments, which acquired in 1998 the status of a philharmonic one. The collective is actively giving concerts. Many famous singers, such as B. Shtokolov, V. Noreiko, Yu. Bogatikov and many others. Among the pupils of the Department are well-known Belarusian performance Elena Materinka (laureate of the "Romanciada-99" international competition in Moscow) and Iskoui Abalyan (laureate of the "Slavonic Bazaar" international competition in Vitebsk).