National songs and dance "Suzirja"A visiting card of the University is "Suzirja" cultural art center. "Suzirja" is a big family of creatively gifted students which numbers over 20 different genres creative collectives and studios. They are national songs and dance "Suzirja" ensemble, an orchestra of national instruments, brass band, dixieland, ensemble of ballroom and modern dance.

All regions of Ukraine are represented in the concert program of the Ukrainian "Suzirja" national songs and dance ensemble . In 1997 the songs and dance "Suzirja" ensemble was given the honorary "national" title for development and propagation of the Ukrainian art. "Suzirja" is a spectrum of national songs and dances: beginning from lyrical female ones and finishing with an enchanting spectacle of man's Cossack songs and dances. Scenic compositions of the collective in which a national dance organically incorporates to a national song are picturesque and precise in their musical and vocal-choreographic form.

"Suzirja" has over 25 national, thematic, celebratory and entertaining programs, it prepared more than 1000 concerts. It was applauded by inhabitants of Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa, Rivne, Volynsk, Chernigiv, Chernivtsy, Cherkassk, Khmelnitskiy areas. The ensemble had honor to represent Ukraine on the XVII International festival of folklore in Canada, as well as on folklore festivals in the USA, "Yalta – 2001" International festival. Young asterisks were greeted by the spectators of Cyprus, Iran, Turkey, Germany, Poland, and Spain.

The collective of the national instruments orchestra consists of 25 gifted students. The structure of the national instruments orchestra includes seven violins, three bayans, an accordion, two clarinets, a big flute and a piccolo flute, a pipe, a bandura, cymbals, a pipe, a trombone, a contrabass, percussion instruments. In the program of the collective there are over 50 various picturesque musical works. The orchestra is the winner of the international folklore festivals-competitions in Ukraine, Canada, the USA, and Poland. In 2001 due to high mastery, highly artistic level of repertory the orchestra of national instruments obtained an honorary title of "national" and became an independent collective.

Brass band of the National state tax service University of Ukraine is a big creative collective of professional performers with highly artistic repertoire (above 40 persons). Brass band is a visit card of the State tax administration of Ukraine. It accompanies all actions carried out both in the STA and the National State Tax Service University of Ukraine at a high professional level, according to protocol requirements. The orchestra collective acts successfully in the National palace of culture of "Ukraine". In 2001 the brass instruments band received an honorary title of "national" for high art level and mastery.

On the base of the brass band one more independent, original collective – Dixieland was founded. In 2001 the collective was appropriated the honorary title of the "national" one. The Dixieland structure is classical, it includes a pipe, a trombone, a clarinet, a saxophone, rhythm-section (percussions, bass guitar, electro guitar). Repertoire of the collective includes blues, jazz, rock-and-roll compositions, as well as compositions on themes of the Ukrainian national songs. Due to various repertoire and a plenty of dancing melodies Dixieland is a constant participant of cultural-entertaining actions: New Year's "zests", parties, youth discos, thematic evenings.

A true ornament of festivities and celebratory actions is drummers' ensemble of the National STS University of Ukraine which totals over 30 participants. Participants of this collective are students of different faculties of the University, who possess defile, rhythm and choreography in perfection. The ensemble repertoire includes not only celebratory defile with the brass band, but modern Latin American and dancing compositions to vocal items. The ensemble took part in ceremonial parade on the Square of Independence on the occasion of the 10-th anniversary of the Ukrainian Independence.

In March, 2003 the drummers' ensemble together with the brass band represented Ukraine on the XV International festival of arts held in the city of Kasteljone de la Plana (Spain).

Director of the "Suzirja" center is Maria B. Dyka; the art director and chorus master of the national songs and dance ensemble is the deserved art worker of Ukraine Chupryna Nina Ivanivna, the main ballet master – director is the deserved art worker of Ukraine Stanislav J. Fedorovich, the musical leader is Volodymyr M. Korol, the ballet master is Volodymyr B. Dykyj, the head of the national brass band and Dixieland is Victor M. Dubovyj, the head of the modern dance ensemble – Chernushich Svitlana Vasylivna, the head of the drummers' ensemble is Valery D. Pinchuk. They have generated their own manner and originality of the Cultural – art center in which the student's youth is spiritually enriched and harmoniously developed.

Each new meeting creative collective of "Suzirja" is a holiday of original Ukrainian culture.
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