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Private Higher Education Institutions

Short description

Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy Banská Štiavnica (HUAJA) is the only one private artistic university in Slovakia that offers non-traditional forms of music and art education (the combination of practical and theoretical skills allows for broader application in practice) and the only university in Slovakia that offers the study of jazz music. At HUAJA the leading internationally known personalities (artists and scientists) from home and abroad ensure the quality of education. They teach in a non-traditional form of workshops, intensive education and block teaching, while focusing on the development of students’ individual abilities and their development in accordance with progressive global trends. HUAJA offers bachelor’s (Bc.), master’s (Mgr. art) and doctorate (ArtD.) degree study program in the field Art named the Music and Artistic Interpretation and Creation.

Scientific research/artistic projects

Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy Banská Štiavnica (HUAJA) established in February 2011 the Artistic and Scientific Research Centre (ASRC) focusing on research in various artistic areas and on presentations of artistic (concerts, performance projects, workshops, multimedia, scores etc.) and scientific results (seminars, conferences, publications, books, CD, DVD etc.). To the main international activities of HUAJA belongs exchange of experiences in the field of art and science on the ground of several bilateral agreements, but also due to personal contacts between the pedagogues and artists from foreign partnership institutions.

Various new educational methods and lifelong learning will be developed and led by outstanding international personalities with long-term impact on developing study programs and projects, organizing workshops, courses, festivals etc.

HUAJA also cooperates with music and artistic institutions in Slovakia (Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina, Association of Slovak Composers, Music Fund, Music Center, conservatories and elementary art schools in Slovakia, etc.) and with dozens of institutions abroad.

International relations

HUAJA has developed various kinds of educational collaboration with many institutions abroad: Janáček

Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, University of Music Würzburg, Lizst Music Academy Budapest, Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Faculty of Arts and Educational Science, University of Silesia in Katowice, University of Miskolc, University of Debrecen, Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Conservatorio di Musica „L. Campiani“ Mantova, Conservatorio di Musica L. D. Annunzio Pescara, Conservatorio di Musica E.F.Dall´Abaca Verona, Conservatorio di Musica A. Boito Parma, Conservatorio di Musica Salerno, Conservatorio Statale di Musica „Domenico Cimarosa“ di Avelino, Conservatoriio di Musica „San Pietro a Majella“ di Napoli, Conservatorio di Musica Antonio Buzzolla Adria, Conservatorio Statale di Musica A. Steffani Castelfanco Veneto, Ionian University Corfu and others.