ul. Józefińska 10
30-529 Kraków
بولندا
- Arts
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
The aim of the school is to educate children and young people professionally as well as develop their musical sensitivity. Our school prepares instrumentalists and vocalists for performance purposes and further music education. The education process in our school is founded on deep dedication to our pupils' good, professionalism in our teaching and upbringing efforts
Our school provides two levels of education: 1st ( primary) level – admissions at the age from 5 to 16 and 2nd (secondary) level – admissions at the age of up to 23).
Since their early school years our pupils can taste individual and group performances, giving concerts not only in our school's music hall, but also in historical buildings of Krakow such as Philharmonic Hall, “Wieliczka” Salt Mine, historical churches of Krakow or Niepolomice Castle. Our pupils take part in festivals and competitions in Poland and abroad – they have performed in Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania and Ukraine. The school constantly cooperates with the Music Academy in Cracow. Our students takes part in festivals and competitions in Poland and abroad.
International events organized by us lately:
The International Competition of Contemporary Music for Children and Youths „SREBRNA SZYBKA” every year, since 2004,( http://srebrnaszybka.pl/index.php)
December 2015 – 1st International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition
March 2015 – 2nd International harp workshop and exhibition in cooperation with the Camac Harps company (France).The first one took place in 2010.
October 2014 – International Marimba Days – workshops and concerts – in cooperation with the Marimba Festiva Association (Germany)
October 2012 and June 2013 – orchestral students exchange with a music school in Bamberg (Germany)
In June 2015 our delegation signed an Arrangement about students and teachers exchange with the Ningbo Foreign Affairs School in China
Last year our school has broaden its offer by the ‘Ancient Music’ and ‘Jazz’ departments. We are about to launch a department of Ethnic Music.
Thanks to the European Community funds we have built a new, 4 floors high section of the school building and the new modern concert hall with the stage for 50 persons and 137 persons in the audience.
We would like to share our 50 years long experience in music teaching as well as organization of international events, and promotion of culture. We are going to invite the others to the ancient city of Cracow to enable them to take use of its reach cultural heritage.
The Bronisław Rutkowski Primary and Secondary Music School in Kraków, Poland is going to continue its activity in the field of cooperation with young people learning music in various countries. We hope, that our ALF Network membership will make realization of our purposes easier .
Our nearest initiative is a programme: “Kraków – Jerusalem. The Bridge of Cultural Heritage”, a joint Polish-Jewish Youth Orchestra’s workshops and concert series organized by our School in cooperation with The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. This unique events is will take place in both Kraków (14-20 April 2016) and Jerusalem (June 2016).
In the subsequent school year we are going to organize a student exchange with the National school for Musical and Performing arts "Professor Pancho Vladigerov" in Burgas (Bulgaria). We are going to learn together both the Slavic and Balkan folk music.