ACTUAL ASPECTS OF MODERN RUSSIAN PIANO TRAINING SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROBLEM OF IMPROVING PIANO PEDAGOGY IN CHINA

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of piano pedagogy, which are of priority importance for improving the modern system of professional piano education in the People’s Republic of China. The Russian system of piano education was adopted as a model of pianists’ professional training. The authors present results of the analysis of this system, considered in the structural and functional aspect, in the chronological framework of the historical development of Russian piano pedagogy. The proposed classification of the key ideological, methodological and theoretical-methodological characteristics of the modern Russian pedagogy of piano performance takes into account the pedagogical value of the classical foundations of musicians’ training, which have become traditional, as well as the leading trends in the modern humanities and the field of musical performance creativity. On the basis of the obtained intermediate research results, conclusions are drawn about the promising vectors of further activities for modeling the reference process of pianists’ professional training at music educational institutions in the People’s Republic of China.