The Youth Chamber Choir was founded in 2014. On May 15, 2019, the team received the honorary title of «People’s Amateur Team of Trade Unions of Ukraine». The choir’s repertoire combines Viennese classics, French Romanticism, Impressionism, Gregorian chant, ethnic elements in the works of contemporary British composers, improvisations of contemporary Ukrainian composers on folk themes, as well as the best works of eastern, western and central Ukraine.
Founder, artistic director and conductor of the Youth Chamber Choir Oksana Sukhetska, senior lecturer at the Department of Musicology and Vocal and Choral Arts, Faculty of Arts, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.
Honors:
2016:
Laureate of the 1st degree of the II International Festival-Competition of Arts «Musical pearls» (March 21-22, 25-26, Odessa).
Laureate of the 1st degree of the II International Festival-Competition of Arts «Musical Universe» (October 28-29, Odessa).
Gratitude for proper skill, high civic position and volunteer activity (Uman, rector of the Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University).
2017:
Grand Prix of the All-Ukrainian festival-competition of choral singing and instrumental music «Origins of Voice!» (November 4, Cherkasy).
Thanks for the help in organizing and conducting the XV International pedagogical and artistic readings in memory of Professor OP Rudnytska «Art Pedagogy and the Art of Pedagogical Action» (Kyiv, director of Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine).
2018:
Laureate of the II degree of the III Citywide competition of carols and Christmas carols «Uman carol – 2018» in the category «Best vocal and choral performance» (February 13, Uman).
Participant of the XIII All-Ukrainian Open Festival of Choral Art «Zhayvir Convenes Friends» (April 27-29, Lviv).
Grand Prix of the International Festival-Competition «Talented Youth of Ukraine» (April 27-29, Lviv).
Golden Diploma of the IV International Choral Festival (October 05-07, Herceg Novi, Montenegro).
Diploma for high professionalism, creative potential, active participation in the cultural life of Uman and Cherkasy region, worthy presentation of the university and the city at national and international festivals-competitions (Uman, rector of the Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University).
2019:
Uman Carol – 2019 in the nomination «The most massive performance» (February 13, Uman).
Diploma of the Laureate of the II degree of the X International Vocal and Choral Competition-Festival «Let the Song Convene Friends» (May 14-18, Chernivtsi).
2020:
Diploma of the Winner of the V regional competition of carols and Christmas carols «Uman carol – 2020» in the nomination «Best choral performance (adults)» (February 25, Uman).
And a place in the remote international multi-genre festival-competition «Gems – the Land of boundless possibilities» in the nomination «Vocal. Choirs» in the age group «Adults» (April 20-30, Lviv).
Winner of the First Prize of the IV International Choral Festival-Competition «ODESA CANTAT» (May 29-31, Odesa).
The activities of the Youth Chamber Choir are aimed at reviving and promoting choral art, preserving and developing national culture, expanding the worldview, promoting choral art, developing academic culture of students and educating respect for the values of multiculturalism, attracting talented youth to participate in various creative projects and raising the level of professional training of creative people.