Our Ukrainian National Musical Academy

My speciality.

About my family and my musical interest.

My family is not so large. There are four of us – my mother, my father, my sister (brother) and I. My mother is rather slender, blue-eyed and dark-haired. She is a good-natured and an easy-going person. She is a good musician and her hobby is cooking. My father is tall, dark-eyed and fair-haired. He is an engineer and he has a senior position. He is fond of sports. He plays tennis. But his hobby is chess.

My sister (brother) is blue-eyed girl (boy) with fair hair. She (he) is rather pretty (handsome), a little not-headed. Her (his) hobby is music. She (he) plays the piano. She (he) is fond of classical music.

Now my parents are on pension. I have a lot of relatives. Some of my aunts, uncles and cousins live in Kyiv, others – in different cities of our country.

As for me, I am a student of the Ukrainian National Musical Academy. I study at the first (second, third, fourth) year of piano (orchestra, composer, singer, conducting) department. I am found of music from my childhood. I began playing piano at the age of 5, after I studied at musical school and college, then I entered the Conservatoire.

My musical interest is very wide. I am interested in classical music (modern music, pop-music etc.). I am a hard working person. I read many books and listened to different records to improve my musical skill. I took part in different musical competitions and sometimes won the (first) prize.

I try to work in professional groups to improve my skill and widen my comprehension of music. Sometimes I can go abroad with these professional groups and very often we have a success. I need to speak English so I try to visit our English lessons at the Academy.

I have got a very good teacher of my speciality. He (she) himself (herself) works at the best theatres (orchestra) teaches me the skill of playing (conducting) well.

Everybody of us has a dream to be a highly skilled specialist (musician) and work at the best theatres (orchestras, choirs, different musical institutions and professional groups) not only in our country, but abroad too.

After graduating from the Musical Academy we can work as a musical teacher, as a performer at the orchestra, as a conductor, as a composer, as a concertmaster or be engaged in research.

Our Ukrainian National Musical Academy

The Kiev Conservatory was founded in 1913 at the Kiev Music College of the Russian Musical Society. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Glazunov, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière (1914–1920).

I am very proud that our Conservatory is called the Ukrainian National Musical Academy now.

The Conservatory (the National Musical Academy) provides all-round general education and high level of professional training for the young musicians. Besides special, historical and theoretical musical subjects the students also take courses in philosophy, art criticism and foreign languages, as well as physical education. Foreigners are offered the same curricula.

The Academy comprises six departments: the composers’ department, the department of history and theory of music, the piano department, the orchestra department with the divisions of violin, string, wind and folk instruments, the singers’ department with the divisions of opera, chamber singing and musical comedy, the conductors’ department with the divisions of choir and symphony conducting.

Senior students major in subjects which are essential for their future activity. Their graduation papers are oriented towards the fields in which they can apply the received musical knowledge and experience.

Students are provided with hostel accommodation. They take practical training before the graduation exams. Passing examinations with good marks the students get scholarships. Some students study on a budgetary basis, and others pay a tuition fee. The main purpose is to enrich the students’ knowledge in fundamental sciences and to teach students to put to use creatively what they have learnt.

There are two halls in our Academy: the Great hall and the Small hall. In the Great hall we can listen to different operas, concerts with foreign musicians, and take part in different celebrations dedicated to the memorial days. In the Small hall the students, teacher of our Academy and different guests can perform and listen to different chamber concerts, students’ playing and singing and so on.

During the years of its existence the Academy graduated over 8.000 musicians. Many of them represent the music of Ukraine and become winners at International and Ukrainian musical contacts. Many of its graduates were awarded the title of the People’s and Honoured Artists of USSR and Ukraine.

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