Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts

Last updated
Kharkiv Conservatory
Харківський національний університет мистецтв ім. І. П. Котляревського
House 11 on the Constitution Square.JPG
Other name
Kharkiv National University of Arts 'L P Kotlyarevsky'
TypeUniversity of music and theatre
Established1917 (1917)
Location,
Ukraine
Website num.kharkiv.ua

Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky (or Kharkiv Conservatory or Kharkiv National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts) is the leading music and drama institution of higher education in Ukraine. The university trains about 900 undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates in music and theatre art. It enjoys Level IV accreditation, which is the highest under Ukraine's national standards, and is licensed to train foreign students.

Contents

History

The roots of the university can be traced back to the musical classes opened in 1871 under the aegis of the Kharkiv branch of the Russian Imperial Music Society. Kharkiv Conservatory was established in 1917, a result of professional music education development in Kharkiv. Prominent among those who stood at the origins of the conservatory were P. Tchaikovsky, O. Glazunov, and I. Slatin. The conservatory was several times renamed. Since 1920 it was known as Music Academy, but in 1923 with the opening of theatre major the academy was turned into the Institute of Music and Drama, and later into Kharkiv State Conservatory (1934) and Institute of Arts (1963). All these names reflect the search for the most optimal model of artistic education.

In 2004 the institute was awarded the university status and the highest Level IV accreditation. That was another step into the future; it confirmed integration into the European system of education and contributed to the strengthening of the university's international credibility. On the occasion of its 90th anniversary the university was awarded the Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministry of Ukraine and a gold medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. In 2011 it was given the status of 'national importance'.

On June 1, 2013, the University hosted the first concert of the Children's Philharmonic dedicated to Children's Day. [1] [2]

Directors and rectors

The first rector, Ilya Slatin [ru] (Photo from the collection of Yuri Shcherbinin) Slatin Ilia.jpeg
The first rector, Ilya Slatin  [ ru ] (Photo from the collection of Yuri Shcherbinin)
Present rector -- T. B. Verkina (photo by G. Hansburg) Werkina.jpg
Present rector — Т. B. Verkina (photo by G. Hansburg)

Facilities

The university occupies two buildings: Conservatory and Theatre Department.

Conservatory, the main building, houses three halls (Big Hall, Chamber Hall and Small Hall), an opera studio, practice rooms, lecture rooms, a computer class and administrative offices. The building also has a library with about 240 000 depository items; a record and video library with more than 15000 records on CDs and DVDs, audio and video cassettes and vinyl records; an educational folklore laboratory created with the aim to collect, explore and preserve traditional music artefacts of Sloboda Ukraine (Slobozhanshchina).

Theatre Department is a smaller building which includes a big auditorium for drama performances, a small auditorium for puppet performances, rehearsal rooms, lecture rooms, dance rooms, a library, and a puppet's work-room.

Courses/Programs

Kharkiv National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts offers preparatory courses majoring in academic singing and theatre art as well as full-time and part-time courses for BA and MA degrees in Music Art and Theatre Art. The undergraduate degree programs take four years and the graduate degree programs – 1 year

Academic majors are piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, folk instruments, variety arts and jazz, composition, orchestral and choral conducting, organ, percussion, academic singing, musicology, theatre studies, drama and cinema acting, stage directing, acting and directing of the theatre of animation.

Admissions

Admission into the university is by a live audition and interview (bachelor's degree). To get a master's degree foreign students must defend a qualification paper and take an exam in the Ukrainian (or Russian) language.

Structure

Faculty of Musicology and Performance

The Faculty of Musicology and Performance has rich professional traditions followed by its leading specialists in the field of musicology, composition and performance.

Degree-granting departments:

Orchestra Faculty

The Orchestra Faculty established by a prominent musician and cultural professional I.І. Statin offers educational opportunities in performance studies to help students develop their creativity and to prepare them for careers in music.

Degree-granting departments:

Theatre Faculty

Theatre education provided by Kharkiv National University of Arts has always been very prestigious. Its deep long-standing traditions took shape under the influence of L. Kurbas, I. Maryanenko, D. Antonovich, M. Krushelnytsky, V. Afanasyev, A. Pletnyov and A. Gorbenko and many other famous coryphaei of theatre art. Notable alumni of the faculty work all over the world including Kyiv, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Degree-granting departments:

Postgraduate Department

The Postgraduate Studies Office opened in 1993 in Kharkiv State I.P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts provides training in speciality 17.00.03 – "Music Art" and postgraduate internship course in specialities 17.00.03 – "Music Art" and 17.00.02 – "Theater Art". In 2008 I.P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts opened a Centre for Doctoral Training.

University postgraduate internship centre is a real school of performing and teaching skills. Some postgraduate internship trainees are engaged in research work. During the study they take PhD exams, participate in research conferences and after completing the postgraduate course program they get an additional year to get ready for the thesis defense.

Duration of study at the Postgraduate Studies Department is 4 years, post-graduate internship department – 2 years.

The university offers internship in higher education institutions of Poland.

Performing ensembles and companies

Kharkiv University of Arts has a variety of student performance ensembles.

International partnership

Kharkiv University of Arts actively establishes partnerships with the main educational institutions all over the world. It actively participates in international collaboration with arts schools in Cincinnati (USA), Nuremberg, Leipzig (Germany), Naples (Italy), Geneva (Switzerland), Helsinki (Finland), Brussels (Belgium), Lublin (Poland), Vancouver (Canada), Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don (Russia) as well as music colleges of Spain and drama schools of Poland, France, Russia, etc. Besides, the university maintains active partnerships with Goethe-Institute in Ukraine, French Cultural Center, Consulate General of Poland and Russia, Austrian and Swiss Embassies in Ukraine, British Council, and Rotary Clubs. It has formalized partnership agreements with universities of Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and China. Concert tours, workshops and research symposia are arranged within these agreements. Such renowned musicians as Sergei Krivonos (USA), Krzysztof Penderecki, Grzegorz Syerochynsky (Poland), Timothy Reynish (Great Britain), Burkhard Rempe (Germany), and Volodymyr Lukashev (Ukraine) are honourable Doctors of Kharkov National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts.

Professors

Memorial board to Mariya Yeshchenko Mariayeschenko.jpg
Memorial board to Mariya Yeshchenko

Notable alumni

Memorial board to Gmyria GmyrjaMemo.jpg
Memorial board to Gmyria
Memorial board to Viktoriya Lozovaya Lozovaya.jpg
Memorial board to Viktoriya Lozovaya

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Myroslav Skoryk</span> Ukrainian composer and teacher (1938–2020)

Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk music traditions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victor Mishalow</span> Musical artist

Victor Mishalow is an Australian-born Canadian bandurist, educator, composer, conductor, and musicologist.

The Ukrainian orthography is orthography for the Ukrainian language, a system of generally accepted rules that determine the ways of transmitting speech in writing.

Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University is a university located in Ternopil, Ukraine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University</span> University in Kharkiv, Ukraine

H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University is a Ukrainian university in Kharkiv. It was founded in 1933.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andriy Bondarenko</span> Ukrainian composer and pianist

Andriy Ihorovych Bondarenko is a Ukrainian composer and pianist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samiilo Velychko</span> Ukrainian Cossack noble and historian (1670-1728?)

Samiilo Vasyliovych Velychko — was a Ukrainian Cossack nobleman and chronicler who wrote the first systematic presentation of the history of the Cossack Hetmanate.

Dokiya Humenna was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian American writer, one of the most prolific authors of the literary Ukrainian diaspora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dmitrij F. Lupishko</span> Ukrainian astronomer

Dmitrij F. Lupishko is a Ukrainian astronomer, founder of the Kharkiv asteroid science school, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets at Kharkiv Observatory (1989-2012), recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010).

Irina Belskaya is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in spectroscopy and polarimetry of Small Solar System bodies, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets of the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University, recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dmitriy G. Stankevich</span> Ukrainian astronomer

Dmitriy G. Stankevich is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in computer modeling of light scattering by regoliths of planets and the Moon, as well as in digital processing of astronomical images. Winner of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in Science and Technology (1986).

Arts of Ukraine is a collection of all works of art created during the entire history of Ukraine's development.

The History of Ukrainian literature includes laws of the historical and literary process, literary genres, trends, works of individual writers, features of their style, and the importance of artistic heritage in the development of Ukrainian literature.

Oksana Fyodorovna Dmitrieva is a Ukrainian puppet theater director, chief director of the Kharkiv Puppet Theater, actress, playwright, theater critic, photographer, and graphic artist. She is an Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (2006).

Kharkiv University History Museum is one of the first history museums created at a higher educational institution in Ukraine. It is located on the second floor of the main building of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kyiv Modern-Ballet</span> Ukrainian theatre of modern choreography

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liquidation of the autonomy of the Cossack Hetmanate</span>

The liquidation of the autonomy of the Cossack Hetmanate was an administrative reform of the government of the Russian Empire, carried out in 1764-1765 and aimed at eliminating the autonomy of the Cossack Hetmanate. During the 18th century, the Hetmanate gradually lost its political and economic autonomy. In 1764, by order of Empress Catherine II, the hetman's institute was abolished, and a year later the hetmanate was reformed into the Little Russia Governorate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Opera in Ukraine</span>

A national school of opera in Ukraine first emerged during the last third of the 19th century, and was based on the traditions of European theatre and Ukrainian folk music. The first opera by a Ukrainian composer was Maxim Berezovsky's Demofont, based on an Italian libretto, which premiered in 1773. The oldest opera in the Ukrainian musical repertoire, A Zaporozhye Cossack on the Danube by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, was written in 1863. The composer Mykola Lysenko, the founder of Ukrainian opera, composed a number of works, including Natalka Poltavka, Taras Bulba, Nocturne, and two operas for children, Koza-dereza and Mr Kotsky.

References

  1. "В Харькове появится еще одна филармония". Status Quo (in Russian). 2023-10-30. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  2. "В Харькове прошел первый концерт детской филармонии (+фото) – Головне в Україні". glavnoe.in.ua (in Ukrainian). 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2023-11-16.

Sources

49°59′28″N36°13′55″E / 49.991139°N 36.232028°E / 49.991139; 36.232028