Music Theory Department

Position: Head of the Music Theory Department
Academic title: Candidate of Art History (1997)
Honorary title: Associate Professor (2008)
Education:  Belarusian State Conservatory named after V.Lunacharskyi (1987, class of A.Drukt), postgraduate study
Disciplines taught: Choral solfeggio, Methods of teaching music theoretical disciplines, Special class

Born on May 19, 1964 in Khabarovsk, Russia.

She is the member of Belarusian Union of Musical Workers (1989), Association of Belarusian Music Researchers (2019).

She worked in Secondary Special Music School at the Belarusian State Conservatory ( now the Republican Gymnasium-College at BSAM) as a teacher of musical-theoretical disciplines from 1987 till 2019. Since 2000 she headed the cycle commission of musical-theoretical disciplines, from 2004 to 2019 worked as a deputy director for educational work of special cycle.

Since 1998 she was by-worker of the Music Theory Department of Belarusian State Academy of Music, since 2002 – as an associate professor of the department, since 2019 – as an employee of Academy of Music, since 2021 – as Head of the Music Theory Department.

She is a participant of scientific-methodological and scientific-practical conferences and seminars, chairman of the jury of republican musical-theoretical Olympiads, curriculum developer, complier of curricula and educational-methodological complexes for institution of secondary specialized and higher education.

The sphere of scientific interests is the problems of musical education, the modern concept of solfeggio at the level of the national educational model: state, problems, perspectives. The center of the research attention is the Solfeggio methodology, the development of musical hearing and musical thinking.

She conducts master classes, seminar, practicums and open lessons, reads lectures on problems of teaching solfeggio and musical-theoretical disciplines in our country and abroad (Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania). She has her own techniques of choral and instrumental solfeggio. She is Gran Prix Diploma holder at the seventh International Competition “Classic and Modernity” in the nomination “Printing Guide” and the winner’s diploma (1^st place) of the competition of scientific works of the International scientific and practical Conference “Actual issues of pedagogy” in the “Music education’ section.

She performed as a scientific contractor (as a scientific group member) of the development and implementation of scientific tasks within the framework 9of the thematic plan of scientific research and development aimed at scientific and technical support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus:

• scientific assignment “To develop scientific and methodological foundations for improving the system of continuous training of the specialists in the specialty “Conducting (academic choir)” in gymnasiums-colleges of arts and the educational institution “Belarusian State Academy of Music” (2016).
• scientific assignment “To develop scientific and methodological approaches to analyzing the activities of institutions of secondary specialized education in the field of Culture in the Republic of Belarus. To create recommendations for determining the effectiveness of secondary specialized education institutions in the field of culture”(2020).

She was awarded the Gratitude of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (2011), the Certificate (2014) and the Certificate of Honor (2015) of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus and the badge “For contribution to the development of culture of the Republic of Belarus” (2019).

Dissertation for the degree of candidate of art history in specialty 17.00.02 – Musical art: “On the dialogic nature of Gia Kancheli’s”. Scientific supervisor: Doctor of Art History, Professor A.Milka, St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.Rimskyi-Korsakov.

She has many publications.