Professor of Department of Special Piano at the Kharkiv I.P.Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts, PhD in Arts. In 1987 she won first prize and the title winner at the first inter-republican Piano Competition H.Eller in Tallinn (Estonia). She graduated from the Kharkiv I.P. Kotlyarevsky Institute of Arts in the class professor M. Yeshchenko (1990) and then post – training at the Kiev State Conservatory named Tchaikovsky in the class of Honored Artist of Ukraine, professor I. Ryabov (1992). She was awarded the Gold Medal for outstanding achievements in study and work (1991). In 2001 she defended her thesis “L. van Beethoven and the piano culture of the late XVIII – early XIX century. (The problem of the formation of piano texture)” on the specialty “musical art” (Ph.D) in National P. I. Тchaikovsky Musik Academy Ukraine. She performs solo and ensemble concert programs, conducts master classes in Ukraine and abroad. Conducts scientific activity, being the author of scientific manuals on the history of piano performance art and more than more than 40 scientific articles published in Ukraine, Great Britain, Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, Turkey. She takes part in international and national scientific conferences. Among her students there are laureates of international competitions in Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Austria, Lithuania, candidates of art history PhD.
He graduated from the department of anthropology of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidad of Antioquia in 2010. He earned his doctoral degree in ethnomusicology with a graduate certificate in experimental ethnography from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. His intellectual agenda focuses on analytics of listening, world-building practices and contemporary healing arts in Anatolia, Turkey, the Northwest Amazon in Colombia, and in Philadelphia. His research methods include collaborative projects for producing photographs, texts, films, artifacts, and installations. The experimental ethnography he develops is a performative response to contemporary debates in the humanities about decoloniality, object-oriented ontologies, audile worlds, and indigenous analytics of technology.
His installations and sound art compositions have been exhibited at the Crane Arts Gallery in Philadelphia, at the Arthur Ross Gallery and at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library of the University of Pennsylvania. His academic work has been published in academic journals, book chapters, and his films are permanently featured at New Media Review of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA). His films have been shown in international film festivals in London, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Granada, Washington, and Copenhagen, and in academic conferences in Helsinki, Baltimore, Vienna, and Bogotá. In 2021, The International Council of Traditional Music awarded him the honorable mention of the Best Documentary Film Price for Kiraiñia (Long Flutes). Currently, he is the Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and member of the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas (CRACIA), and the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN).
Apart from his academic career, he is a performer of Turkish Sufi Music, community organizer, facilitator of a music therapy protocol, and pursues Ottoman calligraphy and Ney reed flute training under Turkish instructors.
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