Experience in Training Foreign Students as the Future Leaders of Choirs in the Higher Educational Institutions of Ukraine

У статті викладено дані науково-теоретичного дослідження та результати експериментальної підготовки китайських студентів до керівництва хоровими колективами. В основу методики покладено досягнення української системи диригентсько-хорової освіти, доповнені змістом і формами навчальної діяльності, у яких ураховано вимоги світової практики до компетентності фахівця цієї галузі, готового діяти в різних соціально-культурних умовах.This paper presents the material of the fundamental research results of pilot choir’s direction training given to the Chinese students. This methodology has been developed following the achievements of the Ukrainian educational system for choir conductors and directors as well as taking into consideration the global practice requirements to the competences of the leader of a modern choir. The main functions of the choir’s director are explained especially: performance a creative function reflecting the conducting skills; a methodical formative function relating to the task of the singers training for choral performance; a managing function aimed at creating favourable conditions for choir activities and prospects for its development. There are the special didactical conditions for the most successful progress in the education of the professionals, the set of the methodical tools usable by the experimental methodology. They are the psycho-pedagogical support of adaptation of foreign students to learn; development of variable programs and guidelines for the organization of independent work, mastered the basics of management in the field of culture and art; application in the educational process of modern information and communication technologies and training equipment in education; training to improve personal, professionally significant qualities of the future head of the choir; the emotional-volitional capacity, skills, self-regulation, behavioural improvisation, artistry of the future choir’s director; the practical classes for the pilot students’ group with choirs and vocal groups having in their repertoire compositions of wide style range including music pieces from the national heritage of the foreign students. The article offers the results of the experimental activity proving the efficiency of the developed methodology. The author proposes the findings of the above pilot training program confirming the potency and usefulness of the offered education methods and training forms for the foreign students as the future choir’s directors