Music Theory Department

OLGA SAVITSKAYA

Position: Associate professor of the Music Theory Department
Academic degree: Candidate of the Arts History (1990)
Academic title: Associate professor (1994)
Education: Belarusian State Conservatory (1971), postgraduate studies (1974). Passed a course of improving the qualifications of teachers of music universities at the Moscow State Conservatory under the direction of E. Nazaykinski and Yu.Kholopov (1977)
Disciplines taught: Harmony, Analysisi of music polyphony, theory of modern composition, special class


Was born on October 1, 1947 in Minsk, Belarus.

She is a member of Belarusian Union of Composers (1981), Belarusian union of Music Workers (1987), Association of Belarusian Music researches (2013), Music Theory Society (2013).

In 1974 she started her teaching activities in Belarusian State Conservatory, in 1991 as an associate professor.

 

She speaks with reports on International Conferences (Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Vilnius, Daugavpils, Penza, Krasnodar etc.). She conducts concerto-educational activities, including – perf9omeces with the introductory word and concerts in the Belarusian State Philharmonic, Polotsk Sofia Cathedral , Grodno State Music College, Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic, Belarusian State Academy of Music etc. She has publications in periodical press, participates in the programs of the national state television. Conducted many concerts in different cities. She is a curator and presenter of programs of the International Concert Project of the Belarusian State Philharmonic “Masterpieces of World Organic Art”.

She was awarded with the Certificate of Honor of Belarusian State Conservatory (1982), Certificate of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (2007), breast mark “For the contribution to the development of Belarusian Culture” (2007), Certificates of Honor of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (2012), of Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (2016).

Scientific interests are connected with historic research and the research of theory of Belarusian symphonic music and Belarusian symphony as genre-stylistic phenomena represented in development dynamic; with the research of large instrumental forms of Baroque era, as well as issue of  modern Belarusian concert performance. The main problems are genre, style, musical form of baroque in XX century, national composers and performers schools. She is the author of more than 100 scientific, methodological and musical-critical publications in Belarusian and foreign editions.

Thesis for competition for an academic degree of candidate of History of Arts on specialty 17.00.02 – Musical Art: To the issue of large Belarusian Soviet Music: symphonies of the 1960s-1980s. Scientific supervisor: Candidate of History of Arts A.Drukt; State Conservatory of Lithuanian SSR (Vilnius, 1990).

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