Performing and Teaching Activity of Composer Nicolay Chiolak

Abstract

This article is devoted to N. Chiolak who is one of the most famous contemporary musicians of the Republic of Moldova. He is a vivid example of the successful and talented combination of a conductor, a composer, and a pedagogue. Nicolay Chiolak is the author of Church music, the secular works for variously-structured choirs, the music for voice, piano, organ, cello, etc. The article describes N. Chiolak’s becoming a conductor. In his performing and teaching activity, Nicolay Chiolak has developed and deepened the learned principles of conducting. He is characterized by his large experience as a conductor of choirs and orchestras. He has been the Chair Head of the Ismail Pedagogical Institute, the Chair Head at the Academy of Music, Theatre, and Fine Arts for 15 years, and a pedagogue at the Academy for 43 years. The list of this pedagogue’s alumni is impressive not for its number only (over 160) but also for its representatives.