State regional educational institution of secondary vocational education
"Dimitrovgrad College of Music"


Information

The State regional educational institution of secondary vocational education "Dimitrovgrad College of Music” began its functioning in September, 1 1969. It serves as a methodical center for teachers of Children's art colleges of the city and districts, and a center of musical and aesthetic education for the residents of the city and the left-bank part of the Ulyanovsk oblast.

The Dimitrovgrad College of Music is a unique community of professionals whose mission is to instill spiritual values in people, show them the unique peculiarities of music. Its founders were the heirs of the best traditions of national culture - the graduates of the Kazan, Novosibirsk, Saratov and Tbilisi Conservatories and the Ufa Institute of Arts. They have laid a strong foundation for the educational activity of the collective.
It became a tradition to hold final concerts by the students from different faculties. The busy concert life of the Music College is due to the creative achievements of its students, who demonstrate professional performance training. The students’ life within the walls of the college is accompanied by a variety of events. Studies are combined with musical evening concerts, organized by the students. From the traditional amateur concert party - " Student Initiation", to the final concert devoted to the "Graduation" – the students have a lot of opportunities to show their talents in various genres of art and not only in music. Very popularity among the students is "Concert - contest “, where the students perform their own compositions in various genres: from vocal execution of own romance to the large instrumental composition in jazz adaptation.

The high level of teaching in the department is proved by the fact that every year the graduates enter higher education institutions to continue their musical education in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Samara and Ulyanovsk. During the years of work, the music college has been changing the approach to teaching regularly introducing new technologies, but some things always remain unchanged. These are the professionalism of the teaching staff, high standard of education quality and a love of music, which the students keep for life.


Education

The Dimitrovgrad music college trains professionals in different specializations. The college implements educational programs of secondary vocational education of higher level.

The form of study at the college is full time; the normative period of study makes up 3 years 10 months (higher level) on the basis of basic and secondary (complete) general education. During the training the students complete their 11-year basic education.
The education is provided on a budgetary basis (free) and on a contractual system. The students from needy families are paid a social scholarship; all the students get their scholarship in accordance with their session results. Non-resident students are provided with accommodation.
The College carries out its activities under the license from the Department of Education of the Ulyanovsk oblast series ¹ 3801 of September, 28 2005. Under the license, currently the Dimitrovgrad music college trains specialists in the following specialties and specializations:

070106 "Choral Conducting"
070102 "Instrumental Performance"
- "Piano",
- “Orchestral stringed instruments”,
- “Orchestral brass and percussion instruments”,
- "Instruments of Folk orchestra”.
The students also study the general disciplines: musical computer science, mathematics, geography, natural science, Russian language, literature, sociology and political science, philosophy, pedagogy and psychology, etc. The physical training includes: swimming pool, ski training, skating, table tennis, athletics, - conducted on the basis of the Palace of Sports "Dolphin", the Stadium “Builder”, the club "Table Tennis ". Musical and theoretical disciplines: solfeggio, elementary music theory, music literature, harmony, etc. In classes of music-theoretical cycle, the students have the opportunity to prove themselves as novice composers: improvising on solfeggio classes; arranging melodies on the lessons of harmony, composing musical miniatures on the lessons of improvisation.

Creative groups of the Dimitrovgrad Music College
The Dimitrovgrad Music College is not only a center of aesthetic and musical education for all strata of  the Dimitrovgrad society, but also a methodical center of training for teachers of elementary music education of the left-bank part of the Ulyanovsk oblast. At the concert hall of the college regularly perform such student groups as:
- Student Choir of the conductor and choir department and Chamber String Orchestra under the leadership of A.V. Kulikov, an Honored worker of culture of Russia.
- Brass Band under the leadership of G.A. Hasiyatullova
- Orchestra of Russian folk instruments under the leadership of I.M. Maslennikov
- Folk band, vocal ensemble "Inspiration" under the leadership of L.B. Vatyukova
- Vocal Ensemble "Kompanelli" under the leadership of G.A. Starozhukova.
- Vocal Ensemble "Primavera" under the leadership of T.Y. Pashutina.

Projects implemented by the Dimitrovgrad Music College.
Annually the Dimitrovgrad Music College holds among the students of Children's art schools the zonal competitions on the specializations: piano, general fortepiano, folk orchestra instruments, and orchestral string instruments.

Every year they hold the City choral festival "Voices of spring", which is attended by all comers, regardless of their professional training.
Traditionally, they hold the Interregional Festival "December Evenings in province”. Every Thursday of December they traditionally arrange concerts where artists of Dimitrovgrad and the Volga cities perform.
There is also an Interregional Festival "Christmas evenings" where the student groups from the music schools of the Volga cities take part.
Every two years they hold the Violin Music competition among the students of the Dimitrovgrad Music College and the students of children's art schools.
The annual Gala Concert "Starlets of Dimitrovgrad” is conducted with the participation of all the winners of various competitions and festivals of the year.

 

 

Contacts:
433512, Ulyanovsk Oblast,
Dimitrovgrad, pr.G.Dimitrova, 39a
Tel. (84235) 3-40-76, fax (84235) 3-59-54
andante-music.narod.ru
E-mail: goouspo_dmu@km.ru

Working hours:
Monday - Saturday 09.00 - 18.00
Sunday - closed