Ukrainian opera singer (baritone). Soloist of the Lviv National Opera and Ballet Theater named after S. Krushelnytska. People's Artist of Ukraine.
Biography.
He began his career in the Verkhovyna Ensemble at the age of 16. After graduating from the vocal and conducting faculties of the Lviv Conservatory, he worked at the regional philharmonic. He was a friend of Volodymyr Ivasyuk. For more than 30 years he has been a soloist, leading soloist of the Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. He has participated in opera festivals in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Spain, and has made a number of concert tours in the UK, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and the USA. Kushpler's repertoire includes Giovanni Verdi's Il Trovatore (Count di Luna), Giovanni Verdi's Rigoletto (Rigoletto), Yuri Maitus's Stolen Happiness (Mykhailo Gurman), Giovanni Verdi's La bella masquerade (Renato), and many others. G. Verdi (Renato), G. Verdi's La Traviata (Georges Germont, Alfred's father), M. Skoryk's Moses (Poet), J. Strauss's The Bat (Prince Orlovsky) and other roles.
Professor, Head of the Department of Academic Singing at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Music Academy. He has conducted master courses in Germany and Poland.
Opera singer (baritone), People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor, Head of the Department of Solo Singing, winner of the Republican M. Ostrovsky Prize.
Graduated from the vocal (1978) and conducting (1979) faculties of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory. His teachers of solo singing were Professors P. Karmalyuk and O. Darchuk, and of conducting - Professor Y. Lutsiv.
In 1978-1980. I. Kushpler was a soloist of the Lviv Philharmonic, since 1980 he has been a soloist of the Lviv Opera, and in 1998-1999 he was also the artistic director of the theater.
His repertoire includes about 50 opera roles. Among them: Ostap, Mykhailo Gurman, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Iago, Amonasro, Di Luna, Figaro, Onegin, Robert, Silvio, Germon, Barnaba, Escamillo and others.
He has participated in opera festivals in Ukraine (Lviv, Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Donetsk), Russia (Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Kazan), Poland (Warsaw, Poznan, Sianok, Bytom, Wroclaw), and in cities in Germany, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Libya, Lebanon, and Qatar.
As a concert singer, he toured many countries in Europe and America.
He has numerous recordings, including the television versions of the operas Maestro di cappella by D. Cimarosa and La telle by G. Menotti.
Ihor Kushpler is the author of solo songs, works for vocal ensembles and choirs, and arrangements of folk songs published in his own collections: "From Deep Sources" (1999), "Look for Love" (2000), "In Anticipation of Spring" (2004), as well as in collections by other authors.
Since 1983, Ihor Kushpler has been teaching at the Department of Solo Singing at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.
Most of the pupils of Igor Fedorovych's class (students and trainee assistants) became laureates (including first prizes) and diploma winners of prestigious international competitions, in particular: Mykola Lysenko, Ivan Alchevsky, Ivan Patorzhynsky, S. Krushelnytska, and others. S. Krushelnytska in Ukraine, Verdi's Voices, Viotti in Italy, S. Moniuszko, Ada Sari in Poland, Queen Elizabeth in Belgium, Belvedere in Austria, Tchaikovsky in Russia, Association of German Radio (AKG)) and others.
Among its alumni are Honored Artists of Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko National Prize winner A. Shkurgan, H. Kulba, I. Derda, soloist of the Vienna National Opera S. Kushpler, soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine (Kyiv) V. Dudar, soloists of the Lviv Opera - Honored Artist of Ukraine O. Sydir, V. Zahorbensky, A. Benyuk, T. Vakhnovska, L. Ostash. O. Sytnytska, S. Sekh, Sofia Soloviy, and others work under contracts in opera houses in the USA, Canada, and Italy.
In 1999, the jury of the Patorzhynsky Competition awarded I. Kushpler with the diploma "Best Teacher".
He has repeatedly been a member of the jury of various singing competitions, including the III International Krushelnytska Competition (2003) and the II International Didur Competition (Poland, 2008), and has taught master courses at music schools in Germany and Poland.
On his way back to Ukraine from the Adam Didur International Vocal Competition, where he was a member of the jury, he tragically died in a car accident near Krakow on April 22, 2012.
He was buried on the 68th field of Lychakiv Cemetery.
Family.
Wife: Ada Kushpler, dean of the vocal, conducting and folk instruments faculties of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Music Academy. Children:
Zoryana Kushpler - mezzo-soprano, soloist of the Vienna National Opera since 2007.
Elena Kushpler is a pianist and piano teacher at the Hamburg Music Academy.
