Ivan Dukhnych is a violinist, organist, teacher and cultural manager.
Education.
Born in Novoyavorivsk, Lviv region, he received the basics of musical education at the Yanovsky Children's School of Arts in Khodoriv and at the Krushelnytska Music School in Lviv. In 2008-2014. he studied at the Basel Music Academy (violin, class of Adelina Oprean[de] - a student and follower of Yehudi Menuhin's school) and at the same time at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis[en] (baroque violin, class of Chiara Bankini[en]; organ, class of Wolfgang Zehrer[de], Felix Pakhlatko[en] and Lorenzo Guilmi[en]), as well as at the Music Academy of Karlsruhe[en] (class of Albrecht Breuninger). He also took private lessons from Hansheinz Schneeberger (a student and follower of the Carl Flesch school).
Activities.
Since 2016, Ivan Dukhnych has been the artistic director of the Swiss-Ukrainian association Haliciana Schola Cantorum, which studies and promotes historically informed performance in Eastern Europe (with a focus on Galicia), organises artistic and social events and cultural exchange projects. He is a guest lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and, together with Prof. Adelina Efimenko and Natalia Reitel, co-founded the Music Department at the Department of Art History at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich.
In addition to his organisational and pedagogical work, Ivan Dukhnych is an active concert performer as a soloist and chamber musician (violinist and organist). His specialisation is historical performance with a focus on the 17th and 19th centuries, and in particular the reconstruction of the performance technique of Nicolaus Bruns (17th century) - violin and organ pedal at the same time
