Nataliia Hovorukhina is a Ukrainian professor, vocal teacher, and arts administrator. She serves as rector of the I. P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts, is a professor of the Department of Solo Singing and Opera Training, and holds the degree of Candidate of Art Studies. She has also been described as an Honored Artist of Ukraine, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, acting head of the Kharkiv regional branch of the National All-Ukrainian Music Union, a member of the Council of the North-Eastern Scientific Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, a member of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO, and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
In 1994, Hovorukhina graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture with a specialization as a director of an academic choir. She later completed studies at the I. P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv State Institute of Arts in 2001, and in 2004 she finished an assistant traineeship. In 2009, she defended her Candidate of Art Studies dissertation, titled “The Evolution of the Vocal Cycle and the Regularities of Cycle Formation (based on works by R. Schumann, H. Wolf, and A. Schoenberg).” She received the academic title of associate professor in 2012, the honorary title Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2016, the title of professor in 2018, and became an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine in 2025.
As an educator, Hovorukhina has taught courses at bachelor’s, master’s, and third-level educational programs, including professional training, performance and pedagogical mastery, creative supervision, and specialist practicum. She has trained more than 40 graduates in solo singing. Among her students are prize winners and diploma recipients of international and national competitions and festivals, including singers who became soloists at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, the M. Lysenko Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Dnipro House of Organ and Chamber Music, the Kharkiv Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy, and the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic, as well as teachers working in higher education institutions in China and Ukraine.
Her pedagogical activity has also included extensive international outreach. In 2012, 2013, and 2016 she gave 26 master classes in 11 cities in China. She is the chair of the organizing committee for all university competitions and conferences. In her research class, two Doctors of Arts and one Doctor of Philosophy completed their degrees.
Hovorukhina’s scholarly work includes 22 published works, of which 19 are scientific publications and 3 are educational-methodological works. Among them is the anthology “Reader of Vocal-Pedagogical Repertoire for Countertenor (for students of higher education institutions).” Her creative achievements include becoming a diploma recipient at the Antonín Dvořák International Vocal Competition in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, in 1999.
She has also undertaken professional development in higher education and teaching methods. In September 2018 she completed advanced training at the Krakow University of Economics in Poland in the program “New and innovative teaching methods,” and in April 2021 she undertook further training at Sumy State University. In 2022 she received an international educational grant from the International Historical Biographical Institute within the international educational project “East-West,” connected with a professional development program for leaders and academic staff in education and science.
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