Professional activity of a concertmaster in a theatrical university: actualization of educational function in the context of dialogical communication

the article deals with the issues of professional education in the framework of the theater university, analyzes the concertmaster's activity. The factor (dialogue) influencing the actualization of the educational function of the concertmaster's activity is highlighted. In the realities of today in the system of training future artists the issues of professional education come to the forefront. In the theater university the concertmaster is included in the educational process. The problematic issue is the uncertainty of the accompanist's status in the theater university: along with the main performing activity he actually carries out training and education of future artists, but he is not a teacher. The purpose of the article is to identify the educational function in the professional activity of the accompanist, which determines his teaching status, affecting the process and result of professional education of theater students. The relevance is due to the need to expand the scope of the concertmaster's activity due to the shortage of specialists of this qualification in theater education. The novelty of the study lies in the lack of publications that touch upon the educational function of the concertmaster's activity. The theoretical basis of the article was the works of scientists in the field of psychology and pedagogy, which emphasized the subjective nature of dialog. By the method of analysis of theoretical studies, the possibility of manifestation of the educational function in the activity through dialogical communication was established. The empirical method was used to identify various forms of dialog in communication with students in the professional activity of concertmaster. The use of dialog communication is described by the example of the work of an accompanist at the Theater Institute of the Saratov State Conservatory named after L.V. Sobinov. The article analyzes the concertmaster's work in the “Vocal Amateurs Club”, which exists in the format of the departmental creative project. On the basis of the work of the “Vocal Amateurs Club” the table of application of various forms of dialogical communication in the concertmaster's activity is drawn up. The results of the study can serve to improve the status of the accompanist in the system of theater education. As a result of the research of the concertmaster's work within the framework of the creative project of the Club of Vocal Amateurs (State Conservatory named after L.V. Sobinov) it was established that dialogical communication actualizes the educational function of the concertmaster's activity. The types of concertmaster's dialogical communication that can be applied in the sphere of professional education of future artists were determined.

concertmaster, theater university, educational function, professional education, dialogical communication