Mikhail Imkhanytsky (*1946) is an accordionist, composer, musicologist, teacher, Doctor of Arts (1990), professor (1991), Honored Artist of Russia (2007).
He was born in 1946 in Kharkiv. In 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Folk Instruments (L. Horenko's accordion class, V. Savinykh's conducting class) and the Faculty of History and Theory (1970; M. Tietz and I. Dubinin's music theory class) of the Kharkiv Institute of Art History. In 1976, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Gnesin Music and Pedagogical Institute (supervised by Oleh Mykhailovych Agarkov); he took composition lessons from Dmytro Klebanov.
In 1971-1973 he worked at the Kharkiv Institute of Arts. Since 1977, he has been working at the Russian Academy of Music; since 1990, he has been a professor of folk instruments, and since 2004, he has been teaching accordion and bayan. In 1989-1993 he taught part-time at the Donetsk Conservatory, in 1993-2005 at the Kharkiv University of Arts, in 2001-2011 at the Krasnodar University of Culture; since 2000 he has been teaching at the Togliatti Institute of Arts, and since 2007 at the Belgorod Institute of Culture.
Areas of research:
regularities of folk-instrumental culture of the written tradition
history and theory of performance on folk instruments
methods of teaching the accordion and bayan.
He discovered images of ancient Russian domras of the 16th and 17th centuries, substantiated the reasons for the functioning of the domra-balalaika culture in Russia, and revealed the peculiarities of its current state and prospects for further development.
Among the works:
"The work of Yuri Shishakov", 1976
"At the Origins of Russian Folk Orchestral Culture", 1987
"History of Performance on Russian Folk Instruments", 2002
"The History of Accordion and Bayan Art", 2006
"The Formation of Stringed Plucked Folk Instruments in Russia", 2008
"Articulation and strokes in intonation on the accordion (after reading the book "Articulation" by I. O. Braudo)", 2010.
Musical works:
Symphony for chamber orchestra (1969)
cycles of romances (1970)
Adagio for string quartet (1971)
Concertino for accordion and orchestra (1982)
Variations for 2 accordions (1985)
Sonata for accordion (2007, in 3 parts).
