Kharkov I.P.Kotliarevsky Institute of Arts is one of the leading Ukrainian universities of arts as well as a scientific and methodological centre of Slobozhanschina music and theatre studies. The University is named after Ivan Kotlyarevsky, a famous classical writer of Ukrainian literature, an outstanding playwright and director.

Departments:

Department of Vocalism and Choral Singing

• Academic Singing
• Special Piano
• Harmony and Polyphony
• Interpretation and Music Analysis
• History of Music and Musical Criticism
• Theory and History of World and Ukrainian Culture
• Composition and Instrumentation
• Concertmastership
• Chorus Conducting
• Opera Singing

Department of Orchestral Studies

• Chamber Ensemble
• Stringed Instruments in an Orchestra
• Wind and Percussion Instruments in an Orchestra and Opera and Symphonic Conducting
• Instruments of a Pop Orchestra
• Ukrainian Folk Instruments

Department of Drama

• Drama Theatre and Cinema Acting Skills
• History of Theatre
• Direction of Drama and Puppet Theatres
• Stage Diction
• Puppet Theatre Acting Skills

Students and Graduates of Kharkov Institute of Theatre Arts:
Leonid Bykov (famous actor, scriptwriter and playwright)
Alexey Petrenko (theatre and cinema actor)
Natalya Fateyeva (theatre and cinema actor