Olha Bench

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Olha Hryhorivna Bench also known as Shokalo-Bench (born 14 March 1955) is a Ukrainian conductor, musicologist, candidate of art studies (1990), associate professor, professor, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998), [1] People's Artist of Ukraine (2010), [2] Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine (now Ministry of Culture and Information Policy) (2005–2010), Consulate General of Ukraine in Pryašev (Slovakia) (2010–2015).

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Early life and education

Olha Bench was born on 14 March 1955 in the village of Gutysko, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. [3] She received secondary and musical education in the schools of Truskavets. From 1972 to 1976, Bench studied at the Drohobych State Music School. From 1976 to 1981, she studied at Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, then from 1984 to 1987 in assistantship-internship and postgraduate studies at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. [4] Bench interned at the National Opera of Ukraine. In parallel, from 1981 to 1984, she was a teacher in the orchestral conducting department at the Kharkiv State Institute of Culture. [5] In 1990, she received the academic title of Candidate of Art Studies.

Career

In 1991, Bench founded and led the chamber choir "Ukrainian Singing," which voiced the films The Thicket and Journey to the Lost Past (about the musical and cultural traditions of the Severia). [5] The choir also successfully performed at the European Culture Month in Krakow in a cultural and public event, "Let's save Ukrainian churches in Poland" (1992) and a government concert at the First and Second World Forums of Ukrainians (1992; 1997).

From 1987 to 2005, Bench was an associate professor and professor at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. Then, from 2005 to 2010, she was Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism. [6] [7] From 2010 to 2015, Bench was the General Consul of Ukraine in Pryševo (Slovakia). [8]

Since 2014, she has been working as a guarantor of pedagogical and artistic directions at the Catholic University in Ružomberok (Slovakia). [8] In 2018, Bench was elected rector of the Kyiv Academy of Arts. In 2018, she was included in the encyclopedia "Britishpedia" for developing Ukrainian-Slovak relations in the section "Prominent persons of the Czech Republic and Slovakia."

Works

Bench is the author of more than 100 publications, including monographs:

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Про відзначення нагородами України працівників культури і мистецтва". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  2. ↑ "Про відзначення державними нагородами України". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  3. ↑ "Бенч Ольга Григорівна". 14 July 2010. Archived from the original on 17 August 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Под стенами КГГА протестовали против Ольги Бенч: что известно о ректоре Киевской академии искусств". Телеграф (in Russian). 2021-08-31. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  5. 1 2 3 Кияновська, Л. О. (2003). Бенч Ольга Григорівна (in Ukrainian). Vol. 2. Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. ISBN   978-966-02-2074-4.
  6. ↑ "Про призначення О. Шокало-Бенч заступником Міністра культури і туризму України". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  7. ↑ "Про звільнення О. Бенч з посади заступника Міністра культури і туризму України". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  8. 1 2 Бермес, Ірина (2020-03-23). "Життєвий шлях, устелений особливим талантом та невтомною працею" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2022-04-14. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  9. ↑ "Про нагородження Почесною грамотою Кабінету Міністрів України". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-07-21.
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