The experience of European music education in the Middle East
The article considers the current structure, the main patterns and trends of music education in the Middle East. Despite the rich cultural traditions, music education in the Middle East countries is in its infancy, relying on a commercial basis and feeling the strong influence of European music schools, to a lesser extent, the USA. In the absence of the general system of musi-cal education system, the existing training programs perform more popularization and attestation functions. The programs of Trinity Schools and ABRSM, which are implemented and supervised by the UK’s leading music institutions, are con-sidered in details. A wide range of specialties and levels of education, established ways of cooperation between schools, colleges and universities in different coun-tries, the unified scale of evaluation stipulate successful operation of these systems in the world, but they are not in demand in the post-Soviet space, including due to the lack of available information that determines the originality and relevance of the proposed topic.