The mission of the department: The mission of the department is to provide conditions for the preparation of competitive specialists with professional musical data in the learning process and the realization of their knowledge, skills, experience during their studies, to further professional musical activities and the benefit of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The purpose of the department: Professional training of concert performers and teachers in accordance with professional educational programs of higher education, aimed at graduating specialists with the award of the academic degree "Bachelor" in the specialties "Instrumental Performance" and "Traditional Musical Art"The purpose of the department is achieved by a team of highly qualified teachers who put on a qualitative level the practice of teaching special musical disciplines, scientific student work, preparation of final qualifying works, teaching practice in educational musical institutions of the city, region and Republic of Kazakhstan.
The history of the Department: The Department of "Traditional music art" was opened in 2015. The chair was headed by doctor of pedagogical Sciences, Professor Yerzhanov M. E. from 2017 to the present time the chair is headed by the head of the Department.
The Department trains bachelors in the field of "Traditional music art", "Instrumental performance". The Department employs well-known experts in the field of music and performing arts and music science: associate Professor, candidate of art Yergalieva; associate Professor, Laureate of the National competition of conductors named after Nurgisa tlendieva,
Laureate of State youth prize "Daryn" of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurymbetov E. S.; associate Professor, member of the Union of composers of Kazakhstan Mikhail Popov, senior teachers Kazhenova L. J., Tabyldieva S. J., Lahaina V. N., Alimbaeva G. B., teache Shukeyev A. L., teachemaster A. A. Mukhambetzhanova
Creative and research potential of the Department is revealed in the active participation of teachers and students of the Department in National and International competitions, concert life of the region and the Republic, foreign tours, solo concerts, TV programs, monographs and collections of articles, textbooks and programs, participation in National and International conferences and publications of scientific articles in domestic and foreign publications. Teachers of the Department are constantly working as part of the jury of various competitions and festivals, conduct master classes on academic mobility programs.
In the preparation of specialists in the field of musical art the main aim and objective of the Department is the training of specialists on the basis of improving the quality and efficiency of the learning process in the sphere of traditional musical art, the strengthening of integration relations with national and foreign leading educational and cultural organizations.