Marko Isaiovych Cherniakhivskyi (b. March 1860, Zhytomyr - d. 14 March 1936, Baku) was a Ukrainian and Azerbaijani violinist, conductor, teacher; People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR since 1928.
Biography.
He was born in March 1860 in Zhytomyr. He learnt to play the violin from his father and A. Nesvadba. Since 1874 he has been an orchestra artist in Kyiv. Later, he organised an orchestra with which he performed in the cities of Ukraine.
From 1883, he was a conductor and choirmaster of M. Starytskyi's troupe (the first performer of the operetta "Chernomorets" in Kharkiv in 1883 and the opera "Drowned" by M. Lysenko in Odesa in 1885).
In Kyiv, he was a member of the Sicard Quartet, an orchestra conductor, head of the musical department of the Solovtsov Theatre, and conductor of symphony concerts of the Literary and Artistic Society.
Since 1903, he has been a conductor and professor at the Baku Conservatory, where in 1904 he organised a concert to mark the 35th anniversary of Mykola Lysenko's work.
Since 1920, he was the chief conductor of the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra.
He died in Baku on 14 March 1936.
