ART DIRECTION AS A PHENOMENON OF MUSICAL CULTURE OF UKRAINE

The article explores the traditions of choral conducting in the context of the professionalization of musical art, and the significance of the conductor's tradition for Ukrainian musical art and the spiritual culture of our people as a whole is found out. It was noted that the period of development of the Ukrainian national conductor education confirmed the pedagogical ideas about the introduction of national priorities and democratization of education, the importance of in-depth professionalization of the content, methods and forms of training choir conductors, educating students as bright creative individuals. It is proved that the performing art of conducting continues to evolve as the musical language becomes more complex, the level of skill of the orchestra students is growing. This requires even better training for future conductors.