Exploring the Composer-Performer-Teacher Role Complex in Fostering Creativity in Music Education

Abstract

The article considers the interaction system between the processes of creating a musical composition, performance and pedagogy, which is currently a particularly topical issue. The main purpose of the article is to actualise the attention to this dilemma of representatives of the Ukrainian musical and pedagogical community, including composers, performers, teachers, and to comprehend the importance of the triune role complex. The article analyses the block “composer – performer – teacher” using the methods of historical and interdisciplinary approaches. Data different in nature, directions of musical activity constitute a single whole in real practice. The system of the educational process in various educational institutions, the problems of interaction between the teacher and the student, the specifics of the self-realisation of the individual in the creative musical area were also covered. In the course of the study, it was determined that composer creativity, performance and music education are carried out in the interaction process of such objects as music and pedagogy, teacher and student, various kinds of contacts among employees on creative and educational activities in terms of world and, in particular, Ukrainian culture. The practical significance of the study is to update and expand the scope of the modern educational system through the application of the trinity principles “composer – performer – teacher” in the process of mastering the curriculum. It is designed to make the interaction of professional musicians with the audience and students more effective, to create the conditions necessary for the training of musical personnel of the highest level, and also to form an awareness of the importance and equivalence of each of the components of this triad.