Ukrainian composer, choir conductor, teacher. Member of the National All-Ukrainian Music Union (1991).
Biography
Evgeny Vitaliyovych Karpenko was born on November 10, 1955 in Sumy. The love of music was instilled in the future composer by his relatives. His grandmother Yevgenia Yevgeniivna Erbs knew classical music well, played the piano perfectly. Father, Vitaly Yakovych Karpenko, who worked all his life as a design engineer at a local machine-building plant, was also fond of art, willingly played the piano. Her mother, Oleksandra Emanuilovna Karpenko, who was a teacher by education, loved to sing, but devoted herself to raising children. The older sister Lyubov Vitalyivna Karpenko became a professional musician and composer, who encouraged her brother to compose and improvise. Evgeny wrote his first piece of music in his school years.
After graduating from secondary school No. 4 in 1973, Yevhen Karpenko studied at the Sumy Music School (conducting class of Ivan Skoromnogo), where he began his first serious composition classes under the guidance of the outstanding folklorist and musicologist V.V. Dubravin, who was at the origin of the modern Institute of Culture and Arts in Pedagogical University in Sumy.
In 1975-1980, he studied at the Kharkiv Institute of Arts named after I. Kotlyarevsky, majoring in choral conducting. Among his teachers were such prominent artists as Professor, Honored Artist Yu. I. Kulyk, Professor, People's Artist of Ukraine V. S. Palkin and others. He actively engaged in composition under the guidance of the famous composer, Professor V. T. Borisov.
In 1980, he began teaching at the Sumy Pedagogical Institute (now Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko), associate professor of the department of choral conducting, vocals and methods of music education at the Institute of Culture and Arts. He teaches the disciplines of conducting and choral cycle: choral class, arranging, conducting, practicum from the school repertoire.
Author of a number of scientific and methodical manuals, including "Conductor and choral training of a music teacher", "Choir arrangement" (co-authored), "School repertoire practice" (co-authored).
Directs the educational women's choir of the Institute of Culture and Arts. This creative team is a repeated participant and laureate of the sacred music festivals "Glyny bells" (Glukhiv), "Vvedenski penispyvy" (Sumy), All-Ukrainian vocal and choral festival-competition "Mosaic of songs" (Sumy, 2019). The choir takes part in numerous artistic events of the university, the city and the region.
From 1999 to 2008, Yevhen Karpenko was the artistic director and conductor of the amateur chamber choir of the Palace of Culture JSC SNVO named after Frunze — a team that was a multiple laureate of regional and all-Ukrainian competitions.
Active in social activities, since 1991 he has been the head of the Association of Composers-Songwriters of the Regional Association of the National Music Union.
Jury member of regional and all-Ukrainian children's music festivals and competitions ("Jazz-stained glass", "Mosaic of songs", "Snowflakes of Slobozhanshchyna").
Awarded with diplomas of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National All-Ukrainian Music Union.
Exhibition of works by E. V. Karpenko in the Sumy Regional Scientific Library
Composer creativity
Composer Yevhen Vitaliyovych Karpenko works in various musical genres. His creative output consists of choral works (a capella and accompanied by a piano), he arranges for academic choirs local musical folklore, collected and recorded by his teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine, Professor V.V. Dubravin. The collection "Choral Arrangements of Sumy Oblast Songs for the Academic Choir" (2000) was published, in which samples of folklore recordings from almost all regions of the Sumy Oblast are presented. The songs of the native land arranged by E. Karpenko are also presented in a separate section in his anthology from the choral class "Singing a Female Choir" (2015). The composer's choral works are in the repertoire of the national choir chapel and the women's choir of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Culture and Arts of the Sumy DSU, the national women's ensemble "Sumchanka".
Evgeny Karpenko is known as the author of vocal works for young people, he wrote more than 100 songs for school children. The presentation of the composer's first collection "The sun is shining for everyone" took place in Sumy in the spring of 1992. Subsequently, the collections "Teach me music" (1992), "New songs for children" (1993), "Once upon a time" (1998), "How to make a fun day" (1998), "Invitation to travels" (poems by Mykola Syngaivskoho, 2001), "Children's Songs" (2001), "Cat Concert" (2003), "Autumn Tale" (2005), "Medunk" (2005), "Relative" (2008), "Simple Arithmetic" (2010) , the vocal and choral suite "The Golden Necklace" (poems by Mykola Hrytsenko based on Ukrainian proverbs, 2011), "Music will tell about everything" (2019), "The Fairy Tale Walks on the Edge of the Forest" (based on poems by Natalia Levchenko, 2020).
The composer creates music based on the poems of famous Ukrainian poets Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Oles, Andrii Malyshko, Mykola Syngaivskyi and local authors: Mykola Petrenko, Anna Prykhodko, Anna Korshunova, Mykola Hrytsenko,Anatoly Gryzuna.
Actively works in the genre of opera for children, created the musical and stage works "Lelia" (libretto by Hanna Prykhodko based on a fairy tale by Lesya Ukrainka, 2003), "Pilgrim" (libretto by Vasyl Puzanov, 2004), "Thumble" (libretto by Iryna Piankova, 2004 ), "The Silver Maiden" (libretto by Serhiy Dyachenko based on the fairy tale by Tamara Khvostenko, 2006), "About the Brave Periwinkle and the Bell-Horse" (libretto by Anna Prykhodko based on the fairy tale by Bohdan Chaly and Pavlo Glazovoy, 2009), "Pysanka" (libretto by Anna Prykhodko based on a fairy tale by Yuri Tys, 2009), "How Periwinkle and Chamomile flew in a whirlwind" (libretto by Serhiy Dyachenko based on a fairy tale by Bohdan Chaly, 2010), "Bells, bells!" (2011, libretto by Anna Korshunova), "The Tale of the Horned Cat" (2012, libretto by Anna Korshunova based on the fairy tale by Liliya Lapina) and others.
Almost all children's operas by Yevgeny Karpenko were performed on the stage of the Sumy Palace of Children and Youth ("Dzvinochok" musical theater, directed by I. Pyankov), many of them by children's groups of music and secondary schools of the city and region, creative studios in Kyiv, Zhytomyr and other cities of Ukraine.
He did not ignore the composer and piano music. Among his works is the album of miniatures "Piesy for piano" (2017).
The composer's musical works were published in separate collections, published in the pages of the magazine "Art and Education", in the thematic sheet music collections "Zvetsvita, Beloved of the Earth" (1999), "Sum Composers - Young" (2006) and others.
In 2012, celebrations were held in Sumy on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the release of Yevgeny Vitaliyovich's first collection "The sun is shining for everyone".
Privacy
Evgeny Karpenko met his future wife Natalia Volodymyrivna in his student years, she is a pianist, musicologist, and taught at a pedagogical university. They raised two children together. Son Vitaly is a candidate of philosophical sciences, daughter Lidia is a cardiologist and pulmonologist. Grandchildren Taras, Luka, Mykhailo, Volodymyr, Natalka study at school. They inspire the composer to create new children's songs.
Selected publications
Conductor and choral training of a music teacher / E. V. Karpenko. — Sumy: Mriya-1, 2001. — 110 p. — ISBN 966-566-178-7.
Conducting etudes: studies. manual / I. P. Zabolotny, E. V. Karpenko. — Sumy: VVP "Mriya" LLC, 2007. — 92 p. — ISBN 978-966-473-001-0.
Choral arrangement: educational and methodological guide / E. V. Karpenko, N. V. Karpenko. — Sumy: VVP "Mriya" LLC, 2007. — 220 p. : sheet music — ISBN 978-966-473-013-3.
Application of accompanying phonogram in work with schoolchildren / E. Karpenko, N. Karpenko // Art and education. — 2010. — No. 3. — C. 19— 22.
Vocal and choral work as a way to embody the creative ideas of the choir master / I. Zabolotny, E. Karpenko // Art and education. — 2014. — No. 4. — P. 22-27.
The conducting activity of Ivan Zabolotny in the musical culture of Sumy Oblast in the last quarter of the 20th century — beginning 21st century / A. K. Martyniuk, T. V. Martyniuk, E. V. Karpenko. — Kyiv: Department, 2019. — 116 p. : photo — ISBN 978-617-7301-65-2.
Algorithms of the student's independent work in the process of studying choral arrangement: methodical recommendations / compiled by E. V. Karpenko. — Sumy: FOP Tsyoma S. P., 2021. — 64 p.
Methodical foundations of studying choral conducting in the first year of study: methodological recommendations / compiled by E. V. Karpenko. — Sumy: A. S. Makarenko Publishing House of the Sumy DPU named after A. S. Makarenko, 2021. — 48 p. : sheet music
Workshop on the school repertoire: educational and methodological guide / E. V. Karpenko, O. I. Ignatovska. — Sumy: FOP Tsyoma S. P., 2021. — 150 p.
Development of sense of intralobular pulsation using examples of freely structured melodies: methodical recommendations / compiled by E.V. Karpenko. — Sumy: A. S. Makarenko Publishing House of the Sumy DPU named after A. S. Makarenko, 2021. — 46 p. : sheet music
