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Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University Of Arts
Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky (or Kharkiv Conservatory or Kharkiv National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts; Ukrainian: Харківський національний університет мистецтв ім. І. П. Котляревського) 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. 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 Imperial Russian 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 Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alexander Glazun ...
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Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.Kharkiv "never had eastern-western conflicts"
, ''Euronews'' (23 October 2014)
Located in the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the historic region of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and Kharkiv Raion. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, it had an estimated population of 1,421,125. Founded in 1654 as a Cossacks, Cossack fortress, by late 19th century Kharkiv had developed within the Russian Empire as a major commercial and industrial centre. From December 1919 to January 1934, Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Rep ...
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Mykhailo Urytskyi
Mykhailo Urytskyi (; born June 3, 1965) is a Ukrainian puppet theater director, and a teacher at The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Mykhailo Urytskyi is a laureate of international festivals and theater awards. Biography First higher education – actor of the puppet theater (Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts from 1982 to 1988). Second higher education – director of the puppet theater (Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University from 2006 to 2007). M. Urytskyi is the author of the scientific work ''Peculiarities of psychological perception of various forms of the puppet theater by children of preschool age''. For seven years Mykhailo Urytskyi worked as an actor in the Crimean Puppet Theater (Simferopol) under the direction of Boris Azarov. He embodied on the stage images in the plays ''All Mice Love Cheese'' Dyula Urban, ''Shreds on the Scatter'' by Grigoriy Oster, ''The Upside D ...
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Marko Topchii
Marko Topchii ( ; born January 7, 1991) is a classical guitarist from Ukraine. Topchii has won more than 100 awards worldwide in the international classical guitar competitions in the professional category. Among them, 55 first places in the competitions in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Ukraine. Biography Birth and education Marko Topchii was born in 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a family of musicians. Нe started studying the guitar at the age of four with Volodymyr Homenyuk and later with Borys Belsky. 2011 - graduated from the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts under Prof. Volodymyr Dotsenko, Merited Artist of Ukraine. 2016 - completed a three-year postgraduate program at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv unde ...
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Alexander Shchetynsky
Alexander Shchetynsky (Shchetinsky) (; ; Aleksandr Stepanovich Shchetins'kiy) is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas. Education and influences Shchetynsky graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute in 1983. Although he studied composition officially with Valentyn Borysov, another Ukrainian composer, Valentyn Bibik, strongly influenced him in those formative years. Another important source of inspiration was so called Soviet musical avant-garde: Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov. Later Shchetynsky participated in master classes with Edison Denisov and Poul Ruders in Denmark, and summer courses in Poland, where he attended lectures by Louis Andriessen, Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Boguslaw Schaeffer, and Magnus Lindberg. Music of t ...
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Boris Sevastyanov
Boris Sevastyanov (born 1 April 1983), is a Ukrainian singer and music composer. He is known for his songs; ''Thats Baby Ruscism'', ''Grady'', ''Take me back'', ''mom.'' He had cited how his music is being influenced by the Russo-Ukrainian War. Biography Boris started writing music from early childhood. He studied at the Kharkiv Lyceum of Arts, as well as secondary schools No. 111 and No. 152. He studied composition and playing the piano since childhood. In 2003, he graduated from the Kharkiv Music School (specialty "Theory of Music", composition - Volodymyr Ptushkin's class). In 2008, he graduated from Ivan Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv State University of Arts (conservatory) majoring in "Composition" (Volodymyr Zolotukhin's class). In 2010-2012, he worked as an arranger of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University Wind Orchestra. In 2012-2015, he collaborated as an arranger with the symphony orchestra "Virtuosos of Slobozhanshchyna". Since the summer of 2014, he regularly trave ...
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Olga Lezhneva
Olga Mykolaivna Lezhneva (born Olga Levit, May 6, 1983) is a film, and television actress. Biography Olga Lezhneva is a Ukrainian actress who was born Olga Levit on May 6, 1983, in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine), into a multicultural family. Her father, who graduated with a degree in chemistry, worked at the Scientific Research Technological Institute. Later, he transitioned into entrepreneurship and eventually became a producer at the broadcasting company “Nika-Video”. Her mother, of Ukrainian heritage, was the head of the Environmental Protection Department at a regional energy company. Olga excelled academically in school and was accepted into a prestigious gymnasium, where she received advanced studies in the sciences. But defying expectations that she would follow in her parents’ footsteps and pursue a STEM education, her path took an unexpected turn, leading her to study drama at the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts instead. The family relocated ...
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Hero Of Ukraine
A Hero of Ukraine (HOU; ) is the highest national decoration that can be conferred upon an individual citizen by the president of Ukraine. The decoration was created in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma. As of 6 June 2025, the total number of recipients had been 1109. Additionally, at least 29 decrees assigned have not been published. The decoration is granted to two classes of recipients: to civilians, the Order of the State () ; and to military recipients, the Order of the Gold Star (). The first foreigner awarded the decoration was Belarusian Mykhailo Zhyznevskyi in June 2017. History The origin of the "Hero of Ukraine" award can be traced to the Hero of the Soviet Union (established 16 April 1934) and the Hero of Socialist Labor (27 December 1938), the highest Order (decoration), decorations established in the Soviet Union, of which Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine was a Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republic. Most of the recipients of the former title received it for ...
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Raisa Kyrychenko
Raisa Opanasivna Kyrychenko (née Korzh; ; 14 October 1943 – 9 February 2005) was a Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer and music teacher who is a recipient of the Hero of Ukraine and Order of Princess Olga. The singer's vast repertory included compositions by modern artists as well as traditional songs from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Early life and education Born on 14 October 1943, in the Ukrainian village of Koreshchyna. Conflicting sources stated her birthday on 14 November. Raisa participated actively in the community and received her first singing lesson at the Zemlyankiv school. Although she was employed in a communal farm, she continued to sing in a chorus that she and other girls had founded. She sang as a soloist in the school choir when she studied in middle school. She later graduated frorm the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts in the late 1980s. Career The Kremenchuk Automobile Plant's house of culture's district choir leader, Pavlo Ochenash, ...
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Oksana Dmitriieva
Oksana Fyodorovna Dmitrieva (; born August 22, 1977) 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). Biography Oksana Dmitriieva graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Theater and Art College in 1998 with a degree in Puppet Theater, after which she immediately received an invitation to the Crimean Puppet Theater under the direction of director Boris Azarov in Simferopol). During her work in this theater she played in 17 performances and participated in international festivals.Олександр Стогній. Музей театральних ляльок. Путівник, — Харків, видавництво «Золоті сторінки», 2009 From 2004 to 2007 she was the director of this theater. From 2001 to 2006, Oksana Dmitriieva studied by correspondence at the Ivan Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv Ins ...
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Valentyn Bilotserkovskiy
Valentyn Mykhailovych Bilotserkovskiy (; born October 14, 1948) is a Ukrainian violinist. Early life Mykhailovych was born and lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was born to a family of violinists and took up the family business. At age five Valentin took up the violin. Belotserkovsky graduated from the Kharkov ten-grades standard musical school, before enrolling in Kharkov Institute of Arts (now the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts) under professor A. Leshchinsky. He then undertook military service in the Kiev military district. As a part of a quartet and as the soloist of an orchestra, he toured Ukraine. In February, 1973 as a part of a quartet of the Kiev military district he won the National competition of N. V. Lysenko in Kiev. After his discharge from the army, he became a graduate student of the Gnessin State Musical College from 1972 to 1974. Teacher From 1973 to 2000 Belotserkovsky taught at Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts, and after 1 ...
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Ferenc Bernáth
Ferenc Bernáth (born 1981) is a Hungarian classical guitarist and composer. Life In 2007, he acquired a guitar artist and teacher's degree with distinction at Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky (or Kharkiv Conservatory or Kharkiv National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts; Ukrainian: Харківський національний університет мистец .... At the same university, he completed his dissertation in the field of Musical Art and was awarded a PhD degree. Since 2007, he has been living in Budapest, Hungary. He began teaching at the Budapest Egressy Béni Music College of Art in 2007 and has served as the head of the department since 2012. He has been the guitar teacher of the Vienna Konservatorium Budapest since 2012. He launched a concert series called "Gitárestek a Rátkaiban," providing a platform for several young guitarists to showcase their talent at the R ...
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