FACULTY OF PERFORMING ARTS

Department of Musical and Dramatic Theater

Kudrych Liudmyla

head of department,
honored artist of Ukraine, associate professor

Contacts of the department:
E-mail: lab_kmdt@xdak.ukr.education
Address: Kharkiv, Poltava Way, 5


The Department of Music and Drama Theater of KhSAC was founded in the 2023-2024 academic year. It was headed by Honored Artist of Ukraine, Associate Professor Lyudmila Vladimirovna Kudrich (who until that time headed the department of pop and folk singing of the KhSAC). This is the only department for the education of actors of the music and drama theater in Ukraine.

The following disciplines are taught at the Department of Music and Drama Theater: vocals, the basics of vocal ensemble, the basics of vocal performance, stage speech, a comprehensive system of plastic education of the actor, the basics of stage combat, fencing, etc.

Highly professional teachers work at the department: two honored artists of Ukraine - L. V. Kudrich (Associate Professor), L. O. Krasovskaya (Associate Professor); teachers O. N. Mikhailyuchenko, O. V. Stetskovich, N. M. Ignatieva, A. M. Belenka, O. O. Svetlichnaya, V. F. Kuchina.

L. V. Kudrich started her creative activity in Kharkiv Philharmonic, where she was a soloist in 1984-2001. Since the 2000s he has been working at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. In 2001 founded and took the post of head of the department of pop singing, created her own school of pop vocal art. The singer has many solo programs, including "Ukrainian Muse", "Past Days of Charm", "In My Soul Songs of the Sea", "Black Eyes", "Meeting the Song", "Prayer of the Soul", "Little Confessions", "Not Only Love", "Evening Bell", "Among the Noisy Ball" and "My Hearth".

Lyudmila Kudrich in 2000. founded the student theater of pop song "STEP", whose participants perform on the main stages of Kharkov. She brought up more than 40 laureates of national and international competitions, in particular Artem Vereshchak - laureate and winner of national and international competitions, participant in 2011. TV show on the channel 1+1 "Voice of the Country" (Ruslana's team), Arthur Soshin - laureate of all-Ukrainian competitions, participant and winner of the fourth week of the television project "X-factor" on-line, winner of the All-Ukrainian television project on the Inter channel "Show No. 1" (2011), Sofia Sukhorukova - laureate of all-Ukrainian and international competitions, participant and winner of the third prize of the All-Ukrainian television project on the Novy channel "Star Factory 4" (2011).

In 2012 Lyudmila Kudrich founded the multi-genre festival-competition of arts "DanseSongFest", which is annually held in Kharkov with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the National Choreographic Union of Ukraine, the Kharkov City Council, the Kharkov State Academy of Culture. Soloists and creative groups from many cities of Ukraine, as well as from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Germany, China take part in the festival. Participants, from 3 to 60 years old, compete in the categories: pop number, folk, jazz, academic vocals, author's song, choreography, theatrical art, show compositions, original and instrumental genre.

L. V. Kudrich organized international festivals: teleconference of the creative unity of West and East "ArtCenter of Talents" (Khmelnitsky, 2016, Rivne, 2017-2018), "Kharkiv fest" and "Art Prichal" (Odessa). In addition, for many years he has been a member of the jury of various competitions, festivals: the international festival-competition of arts "Super Art", the regional competition of performers of the pop song "Golden Autumn - 2007", which took place on October 13-14 at the Palace of Culture "Chemist" Pervomaisky.

Over the past year, during the war, in cooperation with the Department of Pop and Folk Singing of the KhSAC, the following international art festivals and competitions were organized and held with fundraising for the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
- August: International multi-genre art festival-competition "Kharkiv - Hero City", 2022, online;
- October: International multi-genre festival-competition of arts "Dance Song Fest", 2022, autumn, online;
- November: International multi-genre festival-competition of arts "I will live in Ukraine", 2022, online;
- December: International multi-genre art festival-competition "Super Art", 2022, online;
- February-March: International multi-genre festival-competition of arts "Voices will fly to heaven", 2023, online;
- April: International multi-genre art festival-competition "Kharkiv Fest", 2023, online;
- May: International multi-genre festival-competition of arts "Dance Song Fest", 2023, spring, online;
- June: International multi-genre festival-competition of arts "We are united by Ukraine", 2023, in an online format.

L. V. Kudrich is the founder of the Charity Fund for the Support of Talented Children and Youth "Firebird".

Associate Professor and Honored Artist of Ukraine L. O. Krasovskaya since 2001 worked at the KhSAK at the department of pop and folk singing, and from September 1, 2023 already at the department of music and drama theater. L. A. Krasovskaya is the organizer and jury member of the International Competition of Contemporary Art "Art Prima Fest".

A. M. Belenka graduated from graduate school in 2024, defending a dissertation on the topic: "Evolution of the stage word in the Ukrainian theater and cinema: historical and cultural context (XX - first quarter of the XXI century)". Mrs. Bilenka is a laureate of many competitions of professional readers and teaches the discipline "Stage Speech" for actors of the music and drama theater and for actors of the drama theater and cinema.

O. V. Stetskovich is studying in graduate school and is preparing a dissertation on the topic "Artistic activity of G. M. T. Sumner (Sting) in the context of the development of rock music of the last third of the 20th - early 21st centuries" to defense in 2024. He teaches the discipline "Fundamentals of vocal performance" for actors of drama theater and cinema.

O. M. Mikhailyuchenko teaches for actors of the drama theater and the film discipline "Fundamentals of vocal performance". Winner of international and all-Ukrainian competitions and festivals. She is the leader and soloist of the folk vocal group "Soul" (from 2015 to the present).

N. M. Ignatieva has been working at KhSAC since 2005. He teaches the disciplines "Fundamentals of stage combat, fencing", "Complex system of plastic education of the actor: Rhythmics, Fundamentals of stage movement". N. M. Ignatiev is a member of the jury of the Open All-Ukrainian competition of readers of the artistic word "White Lilies of the Valley" since 2015.

O. O. Svetlichnaya is the organizer of the Interregional competition of readers "White Lilies of the Valley" within the framework of the theater festival "Theater of the Future" on the basis of KhSAK (since 2014). He teaches the discipline "Stage language".

V. F. Kuchina has been working at KhSAC since 2004. He teaches the discipline "Stage language".

Teachers of the department actively participate in scientific conferences, constantly publish articles on the problems of theater and musical art. Teachers of the department prepared programs and training methodical materials for courses taught by the department.

A special achievement of the department is the creation of collective "Unique and Universal", which includes the entire first year. This group became the winner of the city contest for online voting. And also this group created about 8 clips. We are waiting for new achievements of our stars.