Dmytro Volodymyrovych Akhsharumov (20 (8) September 1864 - 3 January 1938) was a Ukrainian violinist, conductor, and teacher.
He was born in Odesa. He received his musical education at the St Petersburg and Vienna Conservatories. In 1886, he began his career as a violinist. Over the next decade, he gave 200 concerts, performed many difficult pieces of the classical violin repertoire, as well as some of his own compositions and arrangements.
In 1898, when he moved to Poltava, he initiated the creation of a symphony orchestra in the city, headed the provincial branch of the Russian Musical Society, and helped found a music school. From 1900 to 1914, he led the orchestra's touring performances as a conductor and organiser, and made 11 tours to Warsaw, Vilna, St Petersburg, Voronezh, Odesa, and other cities. The musicians' task was to popularise the works of outstanding classical composers. The orchestra performed almost all of Beethoven's symphonies, five symphonies by Frydor Haydn, two symphonies by W. A. Mozart, works by P. Tchaikovsky, M. Glinka, M. Lysenko, and others. The orchestra is the first to perform M. Kalachevsky's Ukrainian Symphony.
From 1919 he worked as a musician, conductor, and teacher in Feodosia, Moscow, Petrograd, and Voronezh. In 1929, he moved to Turkmenistan and became one of the founders of the Ashgabat Music School. In 1935-1938, he was subjected to political persecution. He was arrested. He died in custody on 3 January 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated.
His memory
The chamber orchestra of the Poltava Regional Philharmonic, founded in 2002, is named after Dmytro Akhsharumov
