Ivan Volodymyrovych Kikys (born 12 January 1951, Svydova, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian teacher, musicologist, conductor, choirmaster, and regent.
Ivan Kikys was born on 12 January 1951 in the village of Svydova, Chortkiv district, Ternopil region, Ukraine.
He graduated from Chortkiv Pedagogical College (1971), Kamianets-Podilskyi Pedagogical Institute (1975), and the Conducting and Choral Faculty of the A. Nezhdanova Odesa State Conservatory (1984).
He has been working as a lecturer of conducting and director of mixed and men's choirs at the Chortkiv Pedagogical College (since 1975; now O. Barvinsky Humanitarian and Pedagogical College). Since 1992, he has been a part-time teacher of church singing at the Chortkiv Diaconal and Catechetical Academy. He is the director of the choir of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Chortkiv.
Artistic director of the folk amateur choir "Halychyna" of the Chortkiv Central District Hospital (since 2000) and the men's choir of the Chortkiv Humanitarian and Pedagogical College named after Oleksandr Barvinskyi.
Scientific and creative activity
Author of textbooks:
"Theory and practice of initial training in conducting technique",
"Practical Work in the Choir Class",
"Essays in the History of Ukrainian Church Music",
scientific articles devoted to the history of the development of choral art in Ukraine, in particular:
Sources of church music creativity of Oleksandr Koshytsia / I. Kikis // Scientific Notes of Ternopil State Pedagogical University named after V. Hnatiuk - Ternopil: V. Hnatiuk State Pedagogical University, 1998 - No. 1 (9) - pp. 7-10.
From the history of musical and cultural life of the Left-Bank Ukraine in the second half of the XVII - late XIX centuries / I. Kikis // Literature and culture of Polissya. - Nizhyn, 1997. - Issue 8. - P. 132-134.
The Ukrainian Republican Chapel of Oleksandr Koshyts in Western Europe and America / IV Kikis // Second historical and cultural Slavic readings in Mykolaiv: scientific and methodological collection - Mykolaiv, 1997. 134 p. - P. 93-95.
He collaborated in the publication of collections of Ukrainian folk songs:
Was I not a viburnum in the meadow: Ukrainian folk allegorical songs: for middle and high school age / compiled by. T. Kolotylo. Edited by O. Dymytrov, I. Kikis - Kyiv: Veselka, 1991. 189 p. (transcription of song recordings);
Coral Necklace: A Collection of Ukrainian Folk Songs / edited and prefaced by M. Chabaiovska, I. Kikis - Ternopil: Aston, 2017. 136 p.
In 1997, he took part in the First All-Ukrainian Scientific and Theoretical Conference "Musical, Pedagogical and Creative Activity of M. D. Leontovych in the Context of the Revival of National Education and Culture". He made a report on the topic - "Works of M. Leontovych in the interpretation of O. Koshytsia".
Awards
Jubilee medal for many years of fruitful work in the training of clerks-regents and on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ (2000)
Pontifical silver jubilee medal (2002),
badge "Excellence in Education of Ukraine" and "Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi" (2007),
Diploma of the III degree of the All-Ukrainian competition as the best employee of the cultural and educational institution of trade unions in the nomination "The best employee of the amateur team of the cultural and educational institution of trade unions" (2004),
honorary badge "For Achievements in Amateur Art" of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (2007),
"Applause" award of the Culture Fund of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (2010),
Diploma of the winner of the district competition "Person of the Year" in the field of culture in the nomination "Best choirmaster" (2013),
Diploma of the "Victory-2017" in the nomination "Best Teacher",
Diploma of the First Open Competition of Vocalists and Choirs named after S. Krushelnytska.
