An open lecture by Olena Leon (Sweden) on "The system of music education of schoolchildren in Sweden" took place at Ushynsky Universit, the Faculty of Music and Choreography. The meeting was organized by the Department of Music and Vocal Theory for graduate and undergraduate students of various specialties. Olena Leon is a former graduate of the Music and Pedagogical Faculty of Ushynsky University. She has been working in the Swedish secondary education system for more than twenty years, is a leading practitioner, a teacher of music, mathematics, Swedish and Russian, and the author of textbooks. Olena Leon acquainted the audience with the peculiarities of Swedish school education, which is based on the principles of democracy and child-centeredness. The basic provisions of the organization of art education, types of art classes and ways of artistic and creative development of children were also covered.