Ihor Volodymyrovych Matsiyevsky (June 28, 1941, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian and Russian composer and musical ethnographer, head of the St. Petersburg and Eurasian school of modern instrumentology, Doctor of Arts, head of the Instrumentology Department of the Russian Institute of Art History (St. Petersburg), professor at the Petrozavodsk State Conservatory named after A. Glazunov, Honored Artist of Ukraine and Poland, academician of the International Academy of Informatization of the United Nations, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the Composers' Union.
He was born in Kharkiv. His father was a well-known infectious disease doctor, Doctor of Medicine, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Ivano-Frankivsk Medical Institute, and his mother was a professional musician. He graduated from the Lviv Conservatory with a degree in composition, completed an assistantship at the composition department of the Leningrad Conservatory, and completed postgraduate studies at the Instrumentation Department of the Institute of Theater, Music and Film Methodology (now RIIII).
In the 1970s, he taught composition at the Ivano-Frankivsk Music College; in the 1980s, he worked at the Leningrad Mussorgsky Music College; in the early 1990s, he taught composition and instrumentation at the Lviv Conservatory; since 1993, he has been a professor of composition and organology and musical anthropology at the Petrozavodsk State Conservatory.
Musical creativity
Ihor Maciejewski is the author of major symphonic and choral works. In particular: the oratorio "In Memory of Lesya Ukrainka"; "Symphony-Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"; "Concerto for Orchestra of Folk Instruments"; vocal and symphonic cycle "Children of Hutsulshchyna"; "Five Liturgical Chants for A-Cappella Choir"; "Belarusian Mass"; musical poem "Cheremosh"; "Concerto for Three Pianos". He is a master of chamber instrumental and vocal cycles and songs based on the poems of Taras Shevchenko, I. Drach, O. Oles, B. Antonych, M. Voloshyn, M. Bohdanovych, M. Vingranovsky, O. Harun, etc.
Pedagogical and scientific activity
He has trained 5 doctors and 22 candidates of sciences, including 12 researchers of Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tatar, Azerbaijani, Tuvan and other Turkic musical cultures. He is the author of 4 books and 10 separate sheet music publications, dozens of major symphonic, chamber and choral cycles, and the music of 12 musical films. More than 150 works are devoted to the problems of traditional instrumentalism, composition and improvisation, singing, music education, history and theory of organology, border and marginal ethnic cultures. His works have been published in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Germany, England, Belarus, Adygea, Karelia, the USA, Mary El, Slovakia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Poland.
One of his works is Musical Instruments of the Hutsuls. The book describes about 200 varieties of Hutsul musical instruments, which is a kind of record, because researchers of folk instruments of other peoples describe no more than 20-50 instruments.
Ihor Matsiyevsky's collection of musical instruments of the world's peoples (about 300 pieces) was declared a national treasure of Russia. Ihor Volodymyrovych can play all the instruments he has collected.
Works
1969 - On the two-part principle of composition in Hutsul folk-instrumental music (Ukrainian Musicology, 5)
1970 - Hutsul violin compositions: Dis, kan, mys.
1972 - Musical instruments of the Transcarpathian Ukraine (Svydnyk)
1972 - Folklore and composing technique (Baku)
1976 - Research problems of transcription of instrumental folk music
1978 - To the problem of the epic in folk instrumental music
1983 - Formation of the system-ethnophonic method in organology
1985 - Trinity music: on the issue of traditional instrumental ensembles
1997 - Issues of documentation of folk instrumental music.
1989 - Issues of documentation of folk instrumental music
2000 - Genre groupings of Ukrainian traditional instrumental music (Lviv)
2002 - Games and harmony, Contonation (Ternopil)
2007 - Folk instrumental music as a cultural phenomenon (Almaty)
2012 - Musical instruments of the Hutsuls (Kyiv)
