ISSUES OF IDENTITY DISPLAYED THROUGH MODERN UKRAINIAN CONDUCTORS

Abstract

World culture is a permanent, living process that embodies the development of human thought and creativity. Modern conducting art is a living cultural organism, which is forming and changing, and the identity of contemporary conductors is obviously stays similar to the identity of their ancestors, namely they are created by themselves. The design of identity problems for Ukrainian conductors is seen as actual, and the study of this problem will allow to design possible ways of preserving and developing national and cultural identities by future generations and will give more information about the personality development of the conductor. The purpose of our investigation is to review the problems of identity through the prism of the views and activities of contemporary Ukrainian conductors. Objectives of the study are to identify the sources in which the main positions of conductors are concentrated on the issues of manifestation and preservation of identity; having analyzed them, to design possible ways of preserving and developing national and cultural identity by future generations. With this information, we can make a conclusion on the importance in every artist’s (including the conductor) life and work of such a multi-faceted and complex concept as identity. The creative activity of modern Ukrainian conductors M. Gobdych, E. Sokach, O. Lyniv, K. Kara-byts, A. Yurkevych, J. Sozansky displayed through identity problems was researched. An analysis of the interviews and articles about their activities was carried out and the specific of their own identities’ interpretation was outlined. The current state of search by conductors of their own identity in the trends of globalization musical culture was characterized. The historical projection of modern Ukrainian conductors and conductors of the past, on the example of M. Lysenko and O. Koshyts was considered.