The problem of developing professional and personal qualities of a conductor-choirmaster

this article is devoted to the topical issue of development and improvement of professional, supra-professional and personal qualities, the proper degree of formation of which is a guarantor of the effectiveness of the performance of professional duties by a conductor-choirmaster. The purpose of the work is to identify and characterize the list of professional and personal qualities of a conductor-choirmaster, as well as to outline the ways and means of their formation in the process of professional training of specialists in the field of musical performing arts. In connection with the designated goal, a number of tasks are realized in the work, consisting in the fact that, on the basis of scientific literature on the issue, to determine a number of professionally and personally significant qualities of a conductor-choirmaster that ensure effective management of a choral group; to establish the ways and means of a higher music school that take place in the process of formation of professional and personal qualities of graduates of conducting areas; to propose a list of measures to improve the named qualities of the specialists in question at the postgraduate stage. The author of the article pays special attention to the need to develop a specially created model for the development of professional and personal qualities of conductor-choirmasters, based on a combination of personality-oriented and competence-oriented approaches to the development of problems of pedagogy and psychology of music education. As a result, the article offers several recommendations for improving the process of university training of specialists in the field under consideration, as well as measures for independent work of university graduates on the development of professional and personal qualities at the postgraduate stage.

conductor-choirmaster, scientific approach, competence, professional musical activity, professional and personal qualities, choir group, choir group management