Composer, educator, conductor of the theater symphony orchestra, artistic director of the Ukrainian folk instruments orchestra, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, author of the anthem and honorary citizen of Zvyagel.
Biography.
He was born in the village of Ternivka, Yarunka (Novohrad-Volynskyi) district, Zhytomyr region, to Fedir Todosovych and Tekla Mykolaivna Mamaychuk. The Mamaychuk family gave us two composers - Mykola Fedorovych and Ivan Fedorovych. Both of them graduated from the Zhytomyr Kosenko Music College, majoring in accordion. Mykola graduated from the Lviv Conservatory and became a composer, working at the Drohobych Music School.
After graduation, Ivan was sent to Kazakhstan, where he worked as a teacher at the Ruzai Music School, and during his military service in Lviv, he played clarinet in a military orchestra.
After his demobilization, from 1964 to 1969, he worked as an accordion teacher at the Novohrad-Volyn Music School No. 1 and at a branch of the Yarun Music School, while also directing a pop orchestra at the city's Palace of Culture and conducting a theater symphony orchestra. He received the third prize for the musical score of the play Shchors.
Together with local composer Afanasii Chovhan, he conducted choir classes at the Yarunske Technical School of Land Management and wrote music himself. It was Chovhan who brought the young musician to the regional association of composers. Along with Semen Ivanov and Afanasii Chovhan, Ivan Mamaychuk joined the Novohrad-Volyn Composers' Association.
In 1969-1975, he studied part-time at the Drohobych Music and Pedagogical Institute. Since 1969, he worked for 12 years as the director of the Red Army (Zhytomyr region) Children's Music School, was the director of the academic choir of the House of Culture, the pop orchestra, the choir of the Velykyi Luh village, the accordion quartet, the folk orchestra of the villages of Hruzlivtsi and Strybizh, and the mixed ensemble of the Red Army House of Culture. All these groups were laureates of the republican reviews of amateur art. In 1968, he organized a folk orchestra of Ukrainian folk instruments and became its director, organized the folk women's vocal ensemble "Chervona Kalyna" of the Novohrad-Volynskyi Agricultural Machinery Plant.
In 1978, he entered the correspondence department of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory, Faculty of History and Theory, where he studied for three years. Since 1981, he held the position of director of the Lesya Ukrainka Palace of Culture in Novohrad-Volyn, while teaching music at the accordion class at a children's music school. In 2000, he created the vocal men's ensemble Khmil, which was awarded the title of "folk" and compiled the songbook Seven Strings, which was published by the Novohrad Publishing House. In 2002, the same publishing house published a collection of musical works by I. Mamaychuk "My Songs - My Roads. The collection includes songs based on the words of local poets Yuriy Kovalsky, Valentyna Ksendzuk, Anatoliy Kliusk, Petro Fatenko, Mariia Pavlenko, Olha Bortnikova, and others. On November 16, 2002, Ivan Mamaychuk passed away. In memory of the maestro's enormous achievements, a street was named in his honor in the city of Novohrad-Volynskyi.
In 2017, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Ivan Mamaychuk's birth, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Pulyn School of Arts, Zhytomyr region, as the founder and first director of the music school, composer, and Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine.
More than 150 songs and pieces for soloists, choirs, ensembles, and orchestra are among the composer's works.
