Ukrainian Soviet domrist and music teacher, professor since 1982. Laureate of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957, a number of all-Union and republican competitions; Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1979.
Biography
Born on July 26, 1927 in Sumy (now Ukraine). In 1959, he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory (Mykola Lysenko's domra class, conducted by Kostyantyn Doroshenko); in 1962, he completed postgraduate studies at the Kyiv Conservatory (Mark Helis's domra class).
During the 1940s and 1950s, he was a soloist of the orchestra of the Sumy Artillery School; since 1951, he was an orchestra artist, and since 1963, he was a soloist of the Kharkiv Philharmonic; at the same time, since 1963, he taught at the Kharkiv Institute of Arts: since 1977, he was the dean of the music and performance department, and since 1984, he was the head of the folk instruments department. Among his students were laureates of all-Ukrainian competitions D. Ostapenko, O. Lebedynskyi, H. Protsenko, and V. Solomin.
He died in Kharkiv on March 6, 1989.
Repertoire
The musician's repertoire included works by:
Bedřich Smetana (2nd duet "Native Land" from the cycle "My Motherland");
Sergei Prokofiev ("Pushkin Waltz");
Mikhail Glinka (The Lark);
Nikolai Budashkin (Concerto for the Domra)
as well as Reinhold Glière, Felix Mendelssohn, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Viktor Kosenko and other composers.
