Kira Shamaieva (b. 17 December 1931, Yaltushkiv village, Bar district, Vinnytsia region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian scholar and musician, Doctor of Arts (1992), Professor (1993), Professor of the Department of General and Specialised Piano at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (since 1960).
Kira Shamaieva was born on 17 December 1931 in the village of Yaltushkiv, Barskyi district, Vinnytsia region, to parents Ivan Ivanovych and Mariia Oleksiivna. In the 1930s, the family moved from one village to another. In 1941, Kira and her family moved to Zhytomyr. It was here that she had to live under German occupation and in the first post-war years. Since childhood, she showed a passion for music. She studied piano at home with her teacher Yefimiya Antonivna Yakhnevych. During the German-Soviet war (until 1943), she studied privately with a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, Nadiia Marish. In the autumn of 1944, when Soviet power returned to Zhytomyr, she began regular studies at the city music school, taught by Zinaida Mykolaivna Stakhurska. In 1947, after graduating from the music school, 16-year-old Kira entered the Zhytomyr Music College named after Viktor Kosenko. In 1948-1949, she studied at the piano class of the famous composer, pianist and musicologist Vsevolod Zaderatskyi. In 1951, after graduating from the Zhytomyr Music School, she entered the Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservatory. She studied in the class of the famous pianist and teacher, Professor Yevhen Slyvak and his assistant, Oksana Kholodna, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory's postgraduate class of Heinrich Neuhaus. In the early 1950s, in Zhytomyr, the young musician met the pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
In 1961, Kira Shamayeva began working at the Department of General and Specialised Piano at the Piano Faculty of her alma mater, the Petro Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservatory. In June 1974, at a meeting of the department, her colleagues nominated the talented performer and teacher for the position of associate professor. In the 1960s and 1980s, she combined teaching and research with performance. She devoted her sikonovic work, among other things, to the music of the twentieth century. At seminars of students of the piano faculty, she performed works by Myaskovsky and Stravinsky.
Musical creativity
Kira Shamaieva, in a duet with her colleagues Liudmyla Holovko and Tetiana Shaniayeva, performed many ensemble pieces of national and foreign classics, composers of the twentieth century. In particular, it is the music of Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alexander Grechaninov, Anton Arensky and contemporary composers Boris Lyatoshynsky, Paul Hindemith, Francis Poulenc, Bohuslav Martinů, Tadeusz Sheligowski, Pauls Dambis, Eugen Kapp, Georg Musselman and others.
Scientific activity
On 6 February 1975, Kira Shamaieva defended her PhD thesis at the Moscow Institute of Art History of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. The topic of this scientific work was "Concert Life in Kyiv in the 20s (1917-1932)". The official opponents were Ukrainian and Russian Soviet musicologist, composer, cultural historian, teacher, Doctor of Arts Ihor Belza and Candidate of Arts Liudmyla Korabelnykova. He was awarded the academic title of Candidate of Arts in March 1975. Based on the materials of her defended dissertation, the scientist prepared a number of articles: "Symphonic Concerts in Kyiv in the 20s" (1971), "From the Kyivan Scriabiniana" (1972), "Music of Poland in Kijowie" (1972), "Concert Life in Kyiv in the First Post-Revolutionary Years" (1973), "Kiyevskie obclobi cinnosti Otakara Sevcika" // Hudebni rozhledy (1973).
On 15 May 1979, Kira Shamaieva was awarded the academic title of associate professor. During the 1980s, the scientist was trained in a number of scientific institutions: The Moscow Research Institute of Art History (1981), the Maksym Rylskyi Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology under the guidance of Doctor of Art History Maria Zahaykevych, and the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow (1989). She took part in joint Soviet-Polish conferences of the Institute of Arts of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, 1978; Moscow, 1987), joint Ukrainian-Polish conference of the Institute of Arts of the Polish People's Republic and the Institute of History and Philology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, 1988), international (Kyiv, 1989, 1990), inter-republican (Kyiv, 1988), and university (1989, 1990) conferences.
In 1992, she defended her doctoral thesis on "Music Education in Ukraine and Inter-Slavic Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth Century". The defence took place at the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory. The official opponents were Doctor of Arts, Professor Anatolii Lashchenko, Doctor of Philology Liudmyla Sofronova, Doctor of Arts, Professor Nina Herasymova-Persydska. He was awarded the academic title of Doctor of Art History on 25 November 1992, and three months later (in February 1993) he was promoted to Professor of the Department of General and Specialised Piano at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
The scientist and musician is a member of the Specialised Academic Council for the Defence of Dissertations at the Maxim Rylsky Institute of Music and Dance, and a member of the Specialised Academic Council for the Defence of Dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Science at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy. She has repeatedly acted as an opponent at PhD defences, reviewed doctoral and master's theses, abstracts, research and methodological papers, articles, etc. In 2013, she was a member of the working group for the preparation of the anniversary edition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Kyiv Conservatory.
Research interests
Inter-Slavic relations in the musical culture of Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
Convergence of the piano course taking into account the professional specialisation of higher education students;
Promoting the expansion of the general musical culture of higher education students;
accessible (depending on the level of training) education of piano skills of higher education students.
Scientific works
Kira Shamaieva is the author of more than 100 works on the history of Ukrainian art, the life of prominent personalities and source studies as a fundamental direction of studying the history of national musical art. Her first scientific work in 1964 was the essay "Concert Activities of Pianists in Kyiv in the Twenties of the XX Century", which was published in the Scientific and Methodological Notes of the Kyiv State Conservatory (Vol. II, Issue 2). The scientist also compiled two issues of the collections of articles "From the Heritage of Masters" in 2003 and 2013. In 2005, a collection of articles "Artists. Education. Time. (From archival sources)". It presents the author's scientific achievements of the 1980s and 2000s. The history of music education in Volyn, the life and work of prominent composers and musicians (Juliusz Zarembski, Borys Liatoshynskyi, Mykhailo Skorulskyi, Viktor Kosenko, Levko Revutskyi, Stefan Wilkonskyi, Lucia Rucynska, Yosyp Vytvytskyi, and others) are thematically studied. The scientist also launched a series of publications on the history of the Kyiv Conservatory "From the Heritage of the Masters" to mark the 100th anniversary of this educational institution.
Selected scientific works
Concert life of Kyiv in the 20s (1917-1932): thesis abstract ... Candidate of Arts: speciality 17.00.02 "Musical Art" / Shamaeva Kira Ivanovna ; Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory - Moscow, 1975. 28 p.
Music education in Ukraine and inter-Slavic cultural relations in the nineteenth century: dissertation in the form of a scientific report ... Doctor of Arts: [speciality] 17.00.02 "Musical Art" / Shamayeva Kira Ivanivna ; Kyiv State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. - Kyiv, 1992. - 45 p. -The document is an abstract of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Arts.
Artists. Education. Time: (from archival sources): [a collection of articles] / K. I. Shamayeva ; Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Department of Culture of Zhytomyr Regional State Administration, Zhytomyr Music College named after V. S. Kosenko - Zhytomyr: Maryna Kosenko's Publishing House, 2005. 136 p. : ill. - Dedicated to the Zhytomyr Music College named after V. S. Kosenko on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
Music education in Ukraine in the first half of the XIX century: a textbook for students of higher educational institutions and school teachers / K. I. Shamayeva ; Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Institute of Content and Methods of Education.
Musical education in Ukraine in the first half of the nineteenth century: on the material of Volyn, Kyiv, Podil, Poltava, Chernihiv provinces: [monograph] / K. I. Shamaeva ; Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory - Kyiv: [b.i.], 1992. 188 p.
In culture and science
On 25-26 January 2022, the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine hosted the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Shamayev Readings: Artists, Education, Time" dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Kira Ivanovna. It was organised and held by the specialists of the Department of General and Specialised Piano. The conference was attended by Professor Oleksandr Kozarenko of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Doctor of Arts, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Ukrainian Music and Musical Folklore Marianna Kopytsia and others. Artists also read musical and scientific dedications to Kira Shamaieva from scholars[2].
Family
elder brother Mykhailo Ivanovych Shamaiev (1926-2013) - a prominent Ukrainian neuropathomorphologist, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Honoured Worker of Science and Technology
nephew - Candidate of Medical Sciences, neurosurgeon Oleksii Shamaiev.
