Creative activity of R. Glier Kyiv Institute’s of Music choirs in the cultural and artistic environment of Kyiv: historical and study of art discourse

Abstract

The article investigates the archival materials related to professional training in choral singing in Kyiv. The creative work of R. Glier Kyiv Institute’s of Music Women, Chamber and Children choirs is analyzed. Different semiotic and semantic orientation in the creative activity of each team is spotted. The role of R. Glier Kyiv Institute’s of Music creative activities in formation contemporary cultural and artistic environment of Kyiv is proved. First professional music training institution in Ukraine – Kyiv Music College, which operates now as R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music, began its educational and creative activity 1868. It was then discovered class choirs. 1869 Student Choir has performed in meeting of the Russian Musical Societies Kiev branch. Students of Music College were also a significant part of its choir. Started a tradition of combining learning with concert choirs and creative activities are always interested in finding an echo in Kyiv's cultural and artistic environment. From the first years of school ideological and artistic principles of activities was chosen in the field of choral art democratic orientation of the learning process, professionalism and spiritual creativity.

Over the years the department of choral conducting has given professional education for dozens of choral conductors, including N. Gorodovenko, O. Soroka, O. Minkivskyi, P. Murawskyi. Important role in the development of conducting and choral department played O. Koshits, M. Leontovich, K. Stetsenko, V. Verhovinets, E. Skrypchynska, G. Veryovka, and in the post-war days – M .Verykivsky, G. Zhukovskyi, A. Kolomiets, O. Lysenko etc.

A mixed choir always has been in the music college. 1984 a new choir leader G. Horbatenko insisted on building the replacement female choir. From this time the choir went from student to a professional one. Its creative activity begins to exceed the regulatory requirements for teaching art institution. However, the structural reorganization of school choirs, finding sustainable solutions to optimize the learning process and creative activity, continued until 2000.

Presently, there are three choirs in R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music: Female Choir, Chamber Choir and Children Choir of schools teaching practice. All three choirs have their audience and fans in Kiev cultural and artistic environment. The article describes the features of each of the creative teams. Female Choir is a regular participant and winner of numerous international choral competitions and festivals, is well known outside Kyiv and Ukraine, successfully integrated into the international cultural space. During a tour in Oberflokkenbah (Federal Republic of Germany, and noting the twentieth anniversary of its founding, the Female chorus again was voted "The Best Choir in the World". The team has a rich creative biography. It is a highly professional practice base for future choirmaster, nevertheless, choir successfully presenting our choral art in Ukraine and abroad. The repertoire of the choir make up best examples of world choral music from the Renaissance, classical, romantic to the arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, sacred music, choral works by contemporary avant-garde. The choir has a lot of stock records that are regularly heard on Ukrainian radio, his performances are broadcast on television, with rave reviews press, prominent figures of Ukrainian choral art.

Chamber Choir was founded as a creative and educational laboratory of student choir conductor department. The identity of this group is that it stands above all as the first interpreter of contemporary Ukrainian music composers. Creative activities and its impact on contemporary cultural and artistic environment as most are found in the large-scale choral festivals and competitions.

Children Choir of schools teaching practice is a kind of "talent’s factory", the future of choral singers and conductors and has three age composition. So create continuous creative personnel’s "pipeline" in the system of professional choral music education. Choral singing in projected public benefit concert of youth, promotes the development of children’s creative activity leads to increased musical knowledge and skills makes systematically develop and improve.

We found a variety of symbolic and semantic focus in the creative activities of each group. The role of R. Glier Kyiv Institutes of Music choirs creativity in the formation of Kyiv’s contemporary cultural and artistic environment is proved. The primary importance of extracurricular creative work these choirs are to facilitate the formation of Kiev "environment in the environment" – a wide segment of the academic lovers of choral music. Thus, a single circle united intellectuals, artists, creative young people – students of educational institutions of music, as well as their parents and teachers. It allows you to meet the aesthetic needs of thousands of fans of classical choral music.