Eva Hadashi (pseudonym of Yevgeniya Suda; August 7, 1975, Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian scholar, Doctor of Philosophy (in musicology), Master of Philology, japanologist, musicologist, writer, singer, TV and radio personality.Presentation of the monograph by Yevgeniya Suda A researcher of Western influences on the Japanese musical art in Meiji period, a laureate of International Literary Contest Coronation of the Word for the novel Western Geisha (2019).
Background Yevgeniya Suda was born on August 7, 1975, in Kyiv.
In 1995 she graduated from R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music, specializing in choral conducting. In 2000 she graduated with honours from the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, majoring in choral conducting. She was a student of a rector of National Music Academy of Ukraine – professor, People's Artist of Ukraine Oleg Tymoshenko. From 2000 to 2004 she studied Japanese language and literature, English at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (graduated with honours). From the first year of her study she began to work actively in the direction of establishing a cultural dialogue between Ukraine and Japan.大学ジャーナル 東と西が出会う時: 日本での生活を振り返ったデビュー小説で祖母ウクライナの文芸賞を受賞したエバ・ハダシさん
In 2001 she went to Japan as a manager-interpreter with an outstanding Ukrainian jazz singer Olga Voichenko for Asakusa Jazz Contest (Tokyo). She signed a contract with a Japanese production company as a manager-interpreter and a singer in the last year of her Master's studies. She produced in Japan a Ukrainian opera singer and bandura player Oksana Stepanyuk, now a soloist at Tokyo Fujiwara Opera.
In 2003 she took a short-term course at Berklee College of Music (US), majoring in jazz vocal. A graduate of this college, majoring in jazz composition and guitar, becomes Yevgeniya's husband. The wedding took place in 2003, the couple lives mainly in Japan. Preparing for her motherhood Yevgeniya terminates her employment contract, and from 2012 to 2017 the divorce trial goes on. During that period she wrote her debut autobiographical novel Western Geisha (published in 2016).ラジオ放送局 「ゆめのたね」(Радіо Yume no Tane
In 2011 she performs in a project Dialogue of Cultures: Ukraine – Japan, dedicated to Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, as a manager, translator/interpreter, as well as a main solo singer in the central work of the project – Chamber Symphony Cicadas’ Prayer by Vasyl Pylypchak, performed by National Presidential Band of Ukraine and directed by a Japanese conductor Takashi Ueno.Svetlana SOKOLOVA Cicadas’ prayer // journal Music (September 29, 2011)
Japanology and literary works A story of her debut novel Western Geisha is autobiographical. A musician by her first major Yevgeniya travels to the United States for a short-term study at Berklee College of Music, where she meets her future Japanese husband, a graduate of this college – a jazz composer and a guitarist.Interview with Eva Hadashi («Bukvu», September 8, 2020) The manuscript of the novel is accepted for publication by a literary magazine Rainbow. Its shortened version is published in No. 3-4 in 2016.Review of novelties of domestic and foreign literary periodicals (November 2015 – April 2016)Fund of the Scientific and Pedagogical Library The novel is published under a pseudonym Eva Hadashi, which means barefoot in Japanese. The complete Ukrainian manuscript of Western Geisha took part in International Literary Contest Coronation of the Word. According to the results of 2019, the novel received a special award International Recognition.Coronation of the Word – 2019. Special awards
The novel Western Geisha is published in Ukrainian, Russian and Japanese. The first Japanese edition (2020), as well as the second Ukrainian edition (2021), became a joint Ukrainian-Japanese project: the publishing house Raduga (Ukraine) and the publishing house Dnepr (Japan) with the assistance of the Japanese-Ukrainian Association for Cultural Exchange.Interview for “Higashi Osaka” newspaper channel “Western Geisha” – confidencial talks about the edition”Japanese-Ukrainian Association for Cultural Exchange, news “Japanese edition of the novel “Western Geisha” is completed”Novel «Western Geisha» in Japanese, publishing house “Dnepr” ドニエプル出版
In February 2021, a presentation of the Japanese edition of the novel took place in Tokyo at the Embassy of Ukraine in Japan. The event had a wide international resonance.Embassy of Ukraine in Japan. Presentation of the Japanese edition of the novel “Western Geisha”An article “A novel about Japan” by Embassy of Ukraine in Japan in “Svoboda” newspaper – the edition of the Ukrainian diaspora in the USANewspaper “Higashi Osaka” – “Japanese edition of the novel “Western Geisha” – presentation at the Embassy of Ukraine in Japan”
In 2017, at National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, Yevgeniya defended her doctoral dissertation Western influences on the Japanese music in Meiji period (1868–1912). In 2019 a publishing house Musical Ukraine published a monograph of the same name. The work is dedicated to the beginning stages of the interaction of Western and Japanese music in Meiji era (1868–1912), which is foremost linked to the military, religious and educational fields. The research indicates the premises of introduction of westerly music in Japan; shows the role of Western-style military conductors and orchestras in the development of the Japanese music life of the period; presents the way of introducing Orthodox Christian music into religious life in Japan and further processes of the traditional choir development; depicts the impact of the music doers Iacob Tihai and Dmytro Livovsky in this process; marks the results and further perspectives of educational reforms of Shuji Isawa and Luther Whiting Mason; traces the history line and shows the foundation of the first Western-style music educational establishment – Tokyo Academy of Music; demonstrates the nascence of Western-style composer's school in Japan, the genesis of the opera traditions; and also it specifies the Japanese national features of familiarization with the Western music art.Suda, Yevgeniya Leontievna. Western influences on the Japanese music in Meiji period (1868–1912). [Text: Doctoral dis. art history (17.00.03) / Y.L. Suda; NMAU P.I. Tchaikovsky; Scientific dir. Gnatyuk L.A. – Kyiv, 2017. – 240 p.]
Irina Drach, Doctor of Art History, a professor of History of Ukrainian and Foreign Music Department at Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts, observes that Yevgeniya Suda managed to move away from usual mythical ideas about "the Japanese exoticism". She examines the Japanese musical world from the inside, finds out how the modernization of Japan took place in the second half of the 19th century, when the country was in a state of the Middle Ages facing the challenges of the new time. This approach is very relevant for Ukraine, since, following the examples of the musical arts development, it allows to comprehend the reforms, which have created favorable preconditions for the implementation of the well-known 'Japanese economic miracle' in the future. A professor of the Russian language at Tenri University Motohiro Ono (小野元裕) emphasizes not only a relevance of the research, but also its uniqueness: Despite the fact that the Japanese art is a subject of a keen interest of scientists from many countries, it is surprisingly rarely examined. The Japanese musical art, in particular Western influences on its music and culture, have been insufficiently explored.
The main aspect of her creative and scholarly activities is determined by developing a fruitful dialogue between Western and Eastern cultures.Musical dialogue between Ukraine and Japan (ua). Trade Union News (June 11, 2018) She is also involved in a popular culture in this direction. In particular, she writes popular songs in Japanese. Her CD "West and East" consists entirely of her original songs in Japanese, and is intended for a modern young audience.ウクライナ出身 シンガーソングライター Eva Hadashi エバ ハダシさんがゲスト バンディ石田 (Radio KISS FM Interview with Eva Hadashi) A fragment of her song Could You Put This Dress On Me? was used in a feature film Steel Angie by a Japanese director Toshinari Yonishi,Eva Hadashi 「このドレスを着させてくれる？」 “Could You Put This Dress On Me?” and her song I Love You Very Much, after two qualifying rounds, reached the final in Grand Prix: Anime Song contest.第3回 Bayside Jazz at ATCThe 3d concert of “Jazz House” project Performance of Eva Hadashi and Ono Aki
She is an author and a host of the program Modern Japan on Blackan Radio TV Japan, which focuses on the issues of speed reading in Japanese, transformations in the modern calligraphy, future of the Japanese cinema, modern kimono and its transformations, as well as perspectives on the Ukrainian-Japanese cultural relations (broadcast in Japanese).BlackanTV – LIVE. Eva Hadashiがお届けする番組 Modern Japan「現代日本」です。VOL.11. She is also a fashion model of elegant and sporty clothing for the Japanese designers (Yumeya Hachiman,オリジナル デニムジャケット レデイース Takako Hotta, Kimono Nakanokou).YUMEYA-HACHIMAN CO., LTD
In summer 2020, she began to work on a sequel of her novel Western Geisha. A working title of the new book is Defamation.
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she actively supports her country, helps refugers, takes part in charity concerts and events. She also actively works as a translator and researcher for leading Japanese television companies (NHK, Fuji Television, TBS Television, TV Asahi and others) for news and informational programs, which broadcast about the events of the war.
Bibliography Eva Hadashi Western Geisha () (2016)Хадаши, Ева. Западная гейша: непридуманный роман / Ева Хадаши Yevgeniya Suda Western influences on the Japanese music in Meiji period (1868–1912) () (2019)Yevgeniya Suda Western influences on the Japanese music in Meiji period (1868–1912) Eva Hadashi Crossing the Oebashi bridge (, short story) (Literary magazine Kyiv 1—2. 2021)Зустрічайте новий випуск журналу «Київ» № 1-2, 2021 Eva Hadashi Is it worthy? (, short story) (Literary magazine Kyiv 1—2. 2022)Зустрічайте новий випуск журналу «Київ» № 1-2, 2022
Publications Batozhna E. [Suda Y. L.]. Western musical influences on the Japanese educational system in Meiji period. – Kyiv: Kyiv Musicology: a collection of articles. – Vol. 14, 2004. – P. 7–15. – ("Scientific Thought of the Youth": Coll. – Book 2.) Suda Y. L. Historical backgrounds of the penetration of Western music in Japan. – Kyiv: Publishing Center of KNLU, NMAU P.I. Tchaikovsky. – Theoretical issues of culture, education and upbringing: a collection of scientific papers. – Vol. 33. – P. 124–129. – ("Scientific Thought of the Youth": Coll. – Book 2.) Suda Y. Western influences on the Japanese military music. – Kyiv: Scientific Bulletin of National Music Academy of Ukraine P.I. Tchaikovsky – Vol. 76: Problems of musical art: heritage and modernity, 2008. – P. 193–206. – ("Scientific Thought of the Youth": Coll. – Book 2.) Suda Y. Ukrainian-Japanese musical relations and modernity (to the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Japan). – Kyiv: Scientific Bulletin of National Music Academy of Ukraine P.I. Tchaikovsky. – Vol. 106: Cultural aspects of contemporary art discourse / in memory of Lyudmila Konstantinovna Kaverina: collection, 2013. – P. 300–311. Suda Y. L. Features of the Japanese traditional music (before Meiji period). – Kyiv: Kyiv Musicology. Culture and art history: coll. – Vol. 32.: NMAU P.I. Tchaikovsky; KIM R.M. Glier, 2010. – P. 199–209. Suda Y. The origin and the initial stage of the development of opera in Japan [Electronic resource]. – Israel XXI: music magazine, 2015. – P. 199–209.Israel XXI: music magazine Suda Y. The origin and the initial stage of the development of opera in Japan
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