Abstract: The article focuses on the role of a concertmaster - a specialist of a modern music institute, which is studied in the context of communication and activity analysis. To characterise professional activities of an academic concertmaster, the authors use a notion of strategy; they introduce a terminological word combination “a concertmaster’s strategy”, which hasn’t been reflected fully enough in music education science. The article substantiates the thesis holding that a set of professional strategies of a concertmaster of a choral conducting class is determined by communicativeness - a pertinent dominant characteristics of the modern educational practice. The authors use the method of description. The scientific description of the strategic activities of a concertmaster is based on the analysis of the work of a concertmaster of a choral conducting class. The authors establish a connection between the categories “strategy” and “competence” responsible for quality-related side of strategic behaviour, and focus on the procedural character of strategic activities. The article reveals the work of a concertmaster of a choral conducting class in terms of the specificity, content and structure of the key professional strategies determined by it.