Gonchar Ivan Ivanovych - (June 19, 1940, Kobolchyn village, Sokyryany district, Chernivtsi region) - teacher, choirmaster, conductor, composer. Master of ceramics. Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine.
There is a saying: "If a person is talented, he is talented in everything." I would like to address these words to the famous choirmaster from Novodnistrovsk, conductor of the Kalyna folk amateur choir, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Ivan Ivanovych Honchar.
(Avksentiy Yakivchuk, folklorist and ethnographer [2002]).
Biography.
Ivan Honchar was born on June 19, 1940, in the village of Kobolchyn, Sokyryany district, Chernivtsi region. In 1958, he graduated from Lomachyntsi secondary school and worked as a club manager in his native village. In 1960-1963, he studied at the Music Department of the Chernivtsi Pedagogical College. After graduation, he worked as a teacher of music, fine arts, and physical education until 1983. In 1970, he graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Pedagogical Institute. From 1985 to 2008, he worked in Novodnistrovsk, where he created the Kalyna Choir, which quickly became popular and recognized in Ukraine.
Creative activity
He wrote his first piece of music "Song about Kobolchyn" in his own words at the school, where his musical mentors were Hryhoriy Shevchuk and Yosyp Zaslavskyi. Working in the village of Kobolchyn, he created a choir that won prizes at district and regional competitions, was awarded the title of folk choir, was awarded bronze and silver medals of the festival winner, was a diploma winner and laureate of three folk singing competitions named after P. Demutskyi in Kyiv.
Ivan Honchar is actively engaged in composing, he wrote "Song about Novodnistrovsk" with lyrics by O. Yurdanova, "Welcome", "To the other shore" with lyrics by Inna Bahriychuk, "My Village" with lyrics by Ivan Nahirniak and many others.
I. Honchar proved himself to be a good artist, a painter, and a potter-ceramist from his grandfather's side. He has restored churches in the villages of Kobolchyn and Vashkivtsi in Sokyrianskyi district, and Juastra in Vinnytsia region. He pays a lot of attention to the restoration of pottery craft. He set up a workshop for 30 students of the Novodnistrovsk House of Folk Art. His own pottery and that of his students were exhibited at various exhibitions in Chernivtsi, Kyiv, and other cities...
He prepared for publication a collection of songs "The Kalyna Choir Sings" and a textbook "How to Learn Pottery."
Ivan Honchar devoted many years to the promotion and revival of the art of pottery, created a museum-complex of pottery, which was opened in his native village of Kobolchyn on December 26, 2008, and of which he is the director. The master presented his work at pottery symposiums in Havarechchyna village, Lviv region (2005), in Chyhyryn (2006), at annual exhibitions in the Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv, at the Petrivska Fair in Chernivtsi, at the "Prykarpattya Vernissage" in Ivano-Frankivsk, at exhibitions in Chubynsk, Kyiv region, and in the town of Chubynsk, Kyiv region, Putyli, Chernivtsi region, at folk art festivals in Romania (Radautz, Suceava) and other cultural events.
Awards and honors
The work of the enthusiastic artist was appreciated: he was awarded diplomas of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine (1999, 2003), the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (1982, 1983), the medal "10 Years of Independence of Ukraine", he is a member of the National All-Ukrainian Music Union of Ukraine (since 2002), the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine (since 2003), he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine" (1999). The master is a laureate of the XIII International Hutsul Festival (2003), an honorary citizen of Novodnistrovsk and Kobolchyn village, a participant of the All-Ukrainian contest "Ukrainian Center for Museum Development" (Kyiv, April 2009), an exhibition-contest and art festival "Pottery Universe - 2009" in Opishnia, Poltava region. Laureate of the Sidor Vorobkevych Literary and Art Prize.
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