Bandura player - student of L. Haydamaka. From the age of 12, he participated in musical groups at the Palace of Pioneers in Kharkiv, first playing the domra and then the bandura in the orchestra of Ukrainian folk instruments. He entered the Kharkiv Conservatory, bandura class of Leonid Haydamaka. In 1939, he participated in the Music Olympiad in Moscow, where he won first place in the category of folk instrument performers. He was a propagandist of the Kharkiv bandura. Participant of the Second World War. He was wounded. In 1946, he entered Kharkiv Medical Institute and evening medical school. From 1957 to 1962, he taught bandura at the Kharkiv Conservatory. He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1962 (class of M. Helis) and worked at the State Honored Chapel of Bandura Players of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1962-67, he taught bandura at the Kyiv Conservatory. Since 1967, he has been a postgraduate student at the correspondence graduate school of the Institute of Music and Folklore of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Author of a collection of etudes for the Kharkiv bandura (K. 1956) and a monograph on the Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments (K. 1980) (which was to be the author's PhD thesis), plays, arrangements of folk songs for bandura, articles on folk orchestras and folk musical instruments.
Students.
Oranska S.H., Degtyareva L.O.
Banduras
In the beginning, Ivanov played a diatonic bandura made by Krugovyi in Kharkiv with 31 strings and rollers that allowed him to quickly change the bandura to different keys.
Later he made a chromatic version of the Kharkiv bandura, which is kept in the Museum of Theater Art in the Pechersk Lavra. 183. Bandura, 1950s, made by master P. Ivanov. Chromatic sound system, 15 basses, 39 strings. The body is asymmetrical, with 2 resonator holes on the upper deck; maple, spruce. 104 cm long. №2595.
Then he worked with the designer I. Sklyar to produce a chromatic Kharkiv bandura with total mechanics. The first sample was in the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Chernihiv Musical Instrument Factory.
The second version of P. Ivanov's Kyiv-Kharkiv bandura made by Sklyar with total mechanics is now in the Kharkiv University of Culture named after P. Kotliarevsky.
The last bandura of the Kyiv-Kharkiv type made by I. Skliar is kept by bandura player V. Mishalov.
Works by
Ivanov P.G. Etudes for the bandura of the Kharkiv method - K.: 1955 - 42 p.
Ivanov P.G. Orchestra of Ukrainian folk instruments - K.: 1981 -110 p.
Ivanov P.G. Exercises, Etudes, Instrumental works, vocal works for bandura of the Kharkiv method // Sklyar I. Kyiv-Kharkiv bandura - K.: Musical Ukraine, 1971 - 71-113 pp.
Ivanov P.G. Music from Podillia - K.: 1972.
