SONG UNIVERSE OF IRYNA KLISH

Abstract

The creative path and pedagogical activity of the Ukrainian singer and teacher Iryna Klish, who worked at Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University for more than forty years (1977-2021) are revealed. She performed as a solo performer and as part of various ensembles and as a soloist of choral groups («Legend», «Beskid», «Gaudeamus», «Drohobytskyi Boyan», «Oranta», «Vidlunya»). The artist's activities had a significant impact on the development of Drohobych's musical and educational life at the turn of the 20 th and centuries. Achievements in education at the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky Institute of Arts (today – Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts), especially in the class of the famous professor Tamara Veske (1914-2005). The singer's repertoire, rich in opera arias, chamber vocal works by Western European and Ukrainian composers, folk songs, works written especially for the singer or performed by her for the first time since their creation, was analyzed. The panorama of cooperation of I. Klish with famous composers, groups, touring trips is revealed. The work of I. Klish in the field of intensive pedagogical activity is highlighted and the range of her scientific interests is revealed. It was established that the leading thematic direction of scientific publications by I. Klish became the study of creativity of famous Ukrainian singers.
The research methodology on a comprehensive approach based on cultural-historical, chronological and musicalanalytical methods in highlighting the characteristic features of the artist's artistic activity. The scientific novelty of the research
consists in the introduction of little-known pages of the work of the singer Iryna Klish into Ukrainian musicology. For the first time, an attempt was made to collect and analyze information about the training of the artist, her concert and tour palette, a significant repertoire list, peculiarities of interpretation of works, cooperation with famous composers, groups and soloists.
The purpose of the publication is to represent the creative, pedagogical and musicological achievements of the famous singer, pedagogue Iryna Klish in the course of the development of her artistic talent. The practical significance.
The need to research the creativity of the singer and pedagogue is due to the need to cover and reveal the whole panorama of the Ukrainian musical art of Drohobychchyna in the last third of the 20th – the first twenty years of the 21
st century and to reveal the trends of its development in connection with the singer's important anniversary.