Development of charismatic skills of soloist-vocalist in professional training

Abstract

 DOI:  https://doi.org/10.28925/2518-766X.2018.3.110115

The article analyses art, scientific-pedagogical, and journalistic works of national and foreign scientists and artists regarding the problems of formation of performer’s charisma and its development in a student-vocalist in the process of professional training at university. On the basis of this, the content of the concept of “charisma” is revealed, charisma of a pop singer is characterised. The article defines the task of developing charisma as a professional quality of a future singer in conditions of university education — it’s a student’s preparation for a successful concert-performing activity. On the basis of the analysis of the educational  program, the author determines the main professional competences of the future soloist-vocalist (vocal-performing, vocal-methodical, vocal-stage, and others), the formation of which is impossible without such quality of a singer as charisma. The examples from the experience of creative activity of the famous pop singers are given, the peculiarities of the development of their charismatic qualities are analyzed. The author views charisma as a professionally needed quality of a future soloist-vocalist. She puts the emphasis on the fact that charisma contributes to the successful implementation of skills and abilities in the vocal-stage activities, acquired by the students during the classes on solo singing, acting and stage language. It is noted that the level of formation of student’s charismatic qualities determines the level of his or her vocal-stage mastery and success of the further professional activities. In the research charisma of a performer is characterized as a component of the professional preparation of a future singer-vocalist, and also the factors of successful development of the student-vocalist’s charisma are proven — such as psychological and target orientation, natural inclinations, special abilities, talent, etc. The hypothesis of S. Hmyrina that the purposeful formation of charisma of the future soloist-vocalist in the process of professional training at the university ensures success of his or her further vocal-stage activities is confirmed.