Iryna Sukhlenko, born in 1976, is a Ukrainian music scholar, pianist, educator, and cultural figure. She holds the degree of Candidate of Art History, is a Professor, and serves as First Vice-Rector of the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts, where she teaches at the Department of Special Piano. She graduated from Beethoven Children’s Music School No. 1 in 1991, where she studied piano under O. M. Kosmina. She then studied at the B. Liatoshynskyi Kharkiv Music College and graduated from the Kharkiv State University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky in 2001. She later completed an assistantship-internship under Professor V. O. Syriatsky and, in 2017, finished her doctoral studies at the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
In 2011 she defended her Candidate of Arts dissertation titled “The Performing Style of Vladimir Horowitz in the Stream of the Development of the Romantic Tradition,” supervised by Professor V. H. Moskalenko. Her academic work is connected with performance style research and the study of piano interpretation.
At the university she teaches the special instrument, piano, and supervises bachelor’s, master’s, and candidate dissertations. She is the author of more than twenty scholarly articles published in Ukrainian and foreign specialized editions, and she has taken part in and organized international academic conferences.
Sukhlenko combines pedagogical, scholarly, creative, and educational activity. From 2012 to 2020 she served as director of the charitable foundation “Kharkiv Assemblies,” and from 2006 to 2020 she was executive director of the International Music Festival “Kharkiv Assemblies.” She was also a member of the organizing committee of the open competition for young performing musicians and composers “Kharkiv Assemblies.”
She was co-author and curator of several artistic and educational projects, including “Children’s Philharmonic,” “Musical Dynasties,” “Let’s Stage an Opera,” the competition “Carl Czerny: More than Etudes,” the scholarly-artistic project “Practical Musicology,” and “Holidays at the University.”
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