Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University

The Kyiv National Ivan Karpovych Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University (Ukrainian: Київський національний університет театру, кіно і телебачення імені Івана Карповича Карпенка-Карого) is the national university specializing exclusively in performing arts and located in Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is a multidisciplinary institution that includes a department of theatrical arts and the Institute of Screen Arts.

The university has four campuses around the city of Kyiv and a separate student dormitory. The acting rector of the university is Inna Kocharian.

History

Lysenko Music and Drama School

The institution was first registered with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs on 5 March 1899 as a music-drama school, but it only opened in September 1904. On 7 November 1912, the school was named Lysenko Music and Drama School in memory of Mykola Lysenko, who was its first director. The sponsorship came from Mykola Levytsky and Mykhailo Starytsky, a father-in-law of Ivan Steshenko. The school was opened in the building belonging to the professor-psychiatrist I. Sikorsky on 15 Velyka Pidvalna Street (today Yarslaviv Val). Upon the death of Mykola Lysenko, the school chairman became O. Vonsovska, the school's violin instructor, and then pianist Maryana Lysenko, the daughter of M. Lysenko.

Bandura classes

In the fall of 1908, the first classes for the Bandura (a Ukraine-stringed instrument) were begun at the Lysenko music school, enhancing Kobzarstvo culture.

Each of the students paid 3–4 rubles a month for half-hour lessons. Poor students only paid 2 rubles. After the first 6 months, only 17 students were left with 3 financial sponsors. The kobzar-teacher (Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko) received a payment of 109 rubles.

In the second half of the year, the group had shrunk and consisted of 6 students (of which 3 were new) and two sponsors who were previously enrolled as students. After 4 months the kobzar-teacher received 38 rubles pay. Consequently, the kobzar at the end of April, not waiting for the end of the academic year left the position and traveled home to Kharkiv.

Ivan Kuchuhura-Kucherenko was a blind man and performed according to his feelings. He had no theoretical education, nor did he have any variations in his playing technique. As a consequence, it was difficult for sighted students to follow him. Interest in playing the bandura however, at that time had grown so much in some of the students that they were able to overcome these problems.

The hours in which the lessons were held were unfortunately not very convenient – from 9–11 in the morning – and the students were mainly made up of university students or public servants.

Half-hour lessons were offered, however, having a teacher without a sound knowledge of teaching methodology, and a systematic approach to teaching could not produce the desired results in the students.

Apart from this, there were no inexpensive banduras for the students to purchase.

In an article about the school, the following solutions were suggested:

A textbook was required and a knowledgeable teacher was needed.

Evening lessons.

Stipends for those who could not afford lessons

Current status

Now in the staff of the Kiev National University of Theater, Film and Television named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary among 188 full-time teachers – 11 doctors of science professors, 27 professors without a scientific degree of doctor of science, 67 candidates of science and associate professor, 14 people's artists, 20 honored figures arts, an honored worker of science and technology, 10 honored artists, three honored workers of culture, one honored worker of public education. 15 academicians, 12 corresponding members and one honorary full member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine graduated from the university in different years, worked and are now working.

Currently, the Kiev National University of Theatre, Film and Television is a highly professional educational institution that offers training in a wide range of licensed creative specialties and specializations. The university provides educational, methodological, research, and professional training for future specialists at two faculties: theatrical art and the art of cinema and television, offering full-time, evening, and correspondence forms of education. The Academic Council of the university, the administration, three dean's offices, fourteen departments, an educational theater, and an educational cinema and television complex are responsible for organizing these activities.

Structure

Institute of Screen Arts;

Faculty of Theatrical Art;

University general departments

• Department of stage speech;
• Department of musical training;
• Department of social studies;

Department of philology.

Alumni

• Zhou Shen
• Snizhana Babkina
• Liudmyla Barbir
• Vladimir Bortko
• Boryslav Brondukov
• Elina Bystritskaya
• Olena Demyanenko
• Volodymyr Denshchykov
• Oksana Dmitriieva
• Oksana Cherkashyna
• Maryna Dyachenko
• Olha Ilyina
• Valeriya Khodos
• Ivan Mykolaychuk
• Anatoliy Palamarenko

Faculty

Anna Kostivna Lypkivska

Vadim Skuratovsky

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