Ukrainian musician, lyre player, re-enactor, performer, researcher and popularizer of traditional instrumental and vocal music of Volhynia and Polissia, organizer of cultural and educational events related to traditional culture and folklore, member of the ethnic group "Village Music", "Varyon", collector and collector of musical of ethnic instruments, lyre player and multi-instrumentalist. Entrepreneur in the field of advertising, printing, culture and art.
Biography
Education
In 1986, he graduated from Kovel Secondary School No. 11.
From 1979 to 1982, he studied accordion at the Kovel Music School.
In 1990, he entered the Faculty of Cultural and Educational Work of the Rivne State Institute of Culture.
In 1994, he graduated from the Art and Pedagogical Faculty of the Russian Academy of Sciences, majoring in: culturologist, organizer-methodologist of cultural and educational work with specialization in folk customs, holidays and ceremonies.
Activity
From 1994 to 1996, he worked as the artistic director of the Kovel Palace of Culture and Technology named after Taras Shevchenko, and in 1996–1997 he was the artistic director of the Tekstylnyk Palace of Culture in Rivne.
From 1998 to 2001, he worked as a manager at the Prioks printing company.
From 2004 to the present time, he has been working as an individual entrepreneur in the field of advertising, printing, and services in the field of culture and art.
Folklore
Andriy Lyashuk began to admire the folklore and traditional culture of the Rivne region while still a student at the Rivne State Institute of Culture. Studying in the third year of the institute, for the first time he gets to the folklore and ethnographic expedition to the villages of Rivne Polissia. At the same time, he is engaged in musical experiments, using traditional ethnic wind instruments in modern music, becoming one of the inspirations and authors of songs in the student rock band "Chant Moulin". Such songs of his authorship as "Blue Fern", "Dream", "Tanochki" appear. In the late 90s and early 2000s, the band often collaborated with musicians and vocalists practicing traditional singing. This is how the cooperation with the youth folklore group "Vesnyanka" of the Ethnocultural Center of the Rivne PDM was born. In 1997, Andriy joined the ethnic group "Village Music" created in the Ethnocultural Center of the Rivne PDM and became its active member.
Continuing to explore the musical instrumental tradition, Andriy Lyashuk replenishes his collection of ethno-instruments and studies the manner of performance on these instruments. He is often invited to lecture-concerts, as a participant in festivals and educational programs. One of such instruments that fell into Andrii's hands is the wheel lyre. Therefore, research and imitation of the Volyn Lyrnytsky tradition become one of the key areas of his creative activity.
As a musician who owns ethno-instruments, Andrii Lyashuk is often invited to record in the studio and participate in concerts of many creative groups playing in the style of ethno and world music. He cooperates with the musical groups "Polykarp", "Horeya Kozatska", "Balamuty", "Varyon".
Andrii Lyashuk plays the lyre not only at festivals and concerts, but also in the traditional way on the streets of cities and towns during public holidays. He often speaks in churches of various denominations. Andrii Lyashuk is a participant in various educational programs, where he personally conducts lectures, master classes and talks for children, students and beginner teachers.
Reconstruction of the Lyrnytskyi tradition
The reconstruction of the Lyrnytskyi tradition is one of the main directions of Andrii Lyashuk's research activity and creativity. His repertoire mainly consists of psalms, cantos, dums and ballads, characteristic of the epos of Volhynia and Western Polissia.
A re-singing of the repertoire from the expedition records of the last Volyn lyre player, Ivan Vlasyuk from the village of Zalyuttya, Starovyzhiv District, Volyn Region (such songs as "Mother of God Pochaevska", "Orphan", "Poltava Centurion"), songs recorded in the villages of Rivne Polyssia from people who took them over from lyremen ("How St. George the Snake won"), songs from the collection "Lyra and her motifs" by Porfiry Demutskyi and others.
Participation in festivals
Andriy Lyashuk is a regular participant of Kobzar and Lyrnytskyi festivals and concerts, such as: "Kobzarskaya Trinity" (Kyiv), "Lyrnytskyi Velykden" (Lviv), "Lyrnytskya Pokrova in Rivne" and "LiraFest" (Rivne). As a lyre player, he is often invited to international festivals: Festiwal Wszyskie Mazurki Świata (Warsaw, Poland); Jarmark Jagielloński w Lublinie (Lublin, Poland); Festival of Ukrainian culture "Pidlyaska autumn" (Bilsk-Pidlyasky, Poland); Days of Ukrainian culture in Switzerland (Lenzburg); Concerts for the Ukrainian community and the Student Brotherhood (Munich, Germany).
Roles in movies
In 2013–2014, Andrii Lyashuk became one of the heroes of the documentary film about modern kobzars and lyremen "Free People" directed by Hanna Yarovenko. Andriy Lyashuk also starred in the role of a lyre player in episodes of Oles Sanin's Guide, George Mendeluk's Bitter Harvest (Canada), Mykhailo Kostrov's Hell Banner or Cossack Christmas. In the documentary film "Wedding Legacy" he played the role of the father of the young man in the short story "Sarna Wedding".
Volunteering
Andrii Lyashuk is a member of Volonof the Terev organization "Ruyevyt" and, as a lyre player, repeatedly gave concerts in front of servicemen, volunteers and volunteers in the ATO zone: Pokrovske, Volnovakha, Mariupol, Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka, Artemivsk (2014); Avdiivka, the Butivka mine (2018) and at the Rivne Polygon.
Entrepreneurship
In 2004, Andrii Lyashuk founded a private enterprise, one of the directions of which is the organization and support of cultural and educational initiatives and artistic events that promote traditional culture, namely such festivals as: "Lirnytska Pokrova in Rivne", "LiraFest", "Dances with chests", "The Rozkolyada in Rivne", "The meadow of traveling singers and masters at museum guests", "The Kobzar stage of the Taras Bulba festival" in Dubno, "The Enlightenment meadow" at the holy village of Klevan. Cooperation as a co-organizer and coordinator of the all-Ukrainian festivals "SheFest" (Cherkasy region); "Battle of Konotop" (Konotop, Sumy region); "Carpathian Ukraine" (Rakhiv, Transcarpathian region); "Olevsk Republic" (Olevsk, Zhytomyr region).
honors
2022 — laureate of the city prize named after Vasyl Pavlyuk in the field of folk art
