A brief historical outline

The Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz was founded on 1st October 1974 as a branch of the State Higher School of Music in Łódź. At the time the Bydgoszcz branch ran two faculties: the Faculty of Instrumental Music and the Faculty of Music Education.

The School became an independent unit on 27th November 1979, and it was then that the State Higher School of Music in Bydgoszcz was named after the famous Polish composer, Feliks Nowowiejski.

On 1st January 1982 the School was renamed as the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. Since the 1981/1982 academic year the Academy has been operating within the full framework of four faculties, offering at present six principal-study programmes.

The following professors held the position of Rector of the Academy:
Prof. Roman Suchecki (1980–1987);
Prof. Franciszek Woźniak (1987–1993);
Prof. Antoni Poszowski (1993–1999);
Prof. Jerzy Kaszuba (1999–2005);
Prof. Maria Murawska (since 2005).