Dean of the Faculty: Igor Komar
Phone: +375 17 355 69 50
E-mail: ork_dekan@bgam.by
Deputy Dean for Ideological
and Educational Work: Maria Pischik
Phone: +375 17 379 19 48
E-mail: ork_zamdekan@bgam.by
Specialist: Lyudmila Pechenkina, Tatyana Zaiko
Phone: +375 17 360 99 51
E-mail: ork@bgam.by
Location: 9 Kommunisticheskaya Street (academic building No. 2), office 205
Structure:
- Stringed Bowed Instruments and Chamber Ensemble Department
- Wind and Percussion Instruments Department
- Orchestral Conducting and Instrumentation Department
- Bayan and Accordion Department
- Department of Stringed Folk Instruments
The Orchestra Faculty is one of the most important structural divisions of the educational institution “Belarusian State Academy of Music”. The activities of the faculty are aimed at professional training of musicians-performers, including conductors in all areas of training (including opera and symphony conducting).
The Orchestra Faculty provides training in the following specialities, ensuring the comprehensive development of professional competencies of students in the field of music performing arts:
- Conducting;
- Music Instrumental Art (piano);
- Music Instrumental Art (violin);
- Music Instrumental Art (viola);
- Music Instrumental Art (cello);
- Music Instrumental Art (double bass);
- Music Instrumental Art (harp);
- Music Instrumental Art (flute);
- Music Instrumental Art (oboe);
- Music Instrumental Art (clarinet);
- Music Instrumental Art (bassoon);
- Music Instrumental Art (horn);
- Music Instrumental Art (tuba);
- Music Instrumental Art (trombone);
- Music Instrumental Art (trumpet);
- Music Instrumental Art (baritone);
- Music Instrumental Art (saxophone);
- Music Instrumental Art (percussion instruments);
- Music Instrumental Art (classical guitar);
- Music Instrumental Art (balalaika);
- Music Instrumental Art (domra);
- Music Instrumental Art (mandoline);
- Music Instrumental Art (cimbalom);
- Music Instrumental Art (bayan, accordion).
During the training process, students gain practical experience by performing as part of various orchestra ensembles of the educational institution “Belarusian State Academy of Music”:
- Symphony Orchestra;
- Chamber Orchestra;
- Wind Orchestra;
- Belarusian Folk Orchestra;
- Russian Folk Orchestra;
- Bayan and Accordion Orchestra;
- Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra;
- Cimbalom Ensemble “Lileya”;
- Flute Ensemble “Nymphs”;
- Saxophone Ensemble;
- Folk Instruments Ensemble.
In addition, students of the Orchestra Faculty are members of the Youth Belarusian-Russian Orchestra under the direction of Y. Bashmet.
The String Quartet carries out educational and outreach activities at the faculty, which includes teachers of the Stringed Bowed Instruments Department. In addition, the educational and creative project “Youth Orchestra of Bayan and Accordion Players” is being implemented, the participants of which are students of educational institutions in the field of culture from all over the republic.
Graduates of the Orchestra Faculty are in demand in the leading cultural institutions of the Republic of Belarus and orchestra groups: National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, State Institution “Merited Collective of the Republic of Belarus “Musical Capella “Sonorus” of Minsk Region”, National Academic Folk Choir of the Republic of Belarus named after G. Tsitovich, Institution “Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre”, Merited Collective of the Republic of Belarus “Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus”, Institution “Belarusian State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Philharmonic”, National State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of the Republic of Belarus, State Entertainment Institution “Belarusian State Circus”.
Since the foundation of the Orchestra Faculty, its deans have been: Vladimir Budkevich, Larisa Deduk, Petr Dudarenko, Ivan Brichikov, Maxim Rassokha, Maxim Shkulepa, Vladimir Korolchuk. Since 2025, the Dean of the Orchestra Faculty is Igor Komar.