Bandura player, composer, conductor and teacher.
Biography.
He was born on January 5, 1934 (according to his passport, but in fact on May 5, 1932) at the station Hryhorivka in Dmytrivskyi (now part of Bakhmach district), Chernihiv region. His father was a railroad worker, and his mother was a housewife. There were four children in the family: the two eldest, Borys and Oleksa, the middle one, Anatolii, and the youngest, Leonid. He went to school 1 kilometer away in the village of Zirka, and from the third grade - in the village of Hryhorivka.
Since 1948, he studied at the R. M. Glier Kyiv State Music College (now the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music) in two specialties: choral conducting - class of H. Tkachenko and bandura - class of V. Kabachok (he studied solfege and harmony with P. Maiboroda).
After graduating from the school, A. Matsiaka immediately entered the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory (now the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine) again at two faculties: conducting and choral - class of M. Prokopenko and orchestral - class of V. Kabachok, and later - A. Bobyr. Simultaneously with his studies, from 1955 to 1959, he taught bandura playing at the R. M. Glier Kyiv State Music College. Among Anatoliy Matsiaka's students are Eleonora Pylypenko-Myroniuk, Valentyna Parkhomenko, and L. Livakovska.
After graduation, he worked at the H. Maiboroda National Honored Bandura Choir of Ukraine. From 1962 to 1989, he simultaneously taught at the Kobzar Studio at the chapel.
The composer died on April 10, 2019 in Kyiv.
List of works
For bandura:
Cycle of 12 pieces "Children's Album" (published in 2017);
Cycle of 12 pieces "Watercolors" (1960-1965; published in 2008);
A number of individual miniatures for bandura "Legend", "Chant", "Story" (29.05.1999), "Play";
Sonata in a-moll for bandura solo in 4 movements is dedicated to his wife (1983; 3rd movement - "Mournful Scherzo" - completed on 6.1(2).2000);
Concerto for bandura and symphony orchestra in 2 parts (1974; orchestrated by Roman Stelmashchuk in 2015; premiered on March 25, 2016 in the Glinka Concert Hall of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Philharmonic, soloist - Oleh Sozansky)
For voice:
Collection "Romances and Songs" for voice and piano ("Song of the Stormy Years", "Morning" (for mixed choir), "To Father" (ballad), "Song about Mother" (there is also a variant of accompaniment for bandura), "Shoulder of the Fatherland", "Elegy", "Sorrow" to the words of V. Kot; "The Shoulder of the Fatherland". Kot; "Why do you appear to me in a dream" on the words of Ivan Franko; "It's been a long time since night..." on the words of M. Gorky; "You have braids - two spring streams..." on the words of A. Drohomyretsky);
A cycle of 7 romances based on Lesya Ukrainka's poems for voice and piano (1965) ("The night was dark and quiet", "Don't sing to me", "My heart is burning", "Spring and hopes again", "I look at the clear stars", "I stood and listened to the spring", "I would like to become a song");
Diptych on poems by L. Kostenko for voice and piano (1994) ("Drinking Your Voice", "How Can I Forget You Now");
"Three Ritual Songs" for bandura trio ("The Dawn Shone," "Dedicated to Grandparents," "Don't Fall a Dust");
Arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs accompanied by bandura ("A dove flies over the beam", "Don't ask why my eyes are crying", "Oh, I'll go to the mill", "Oh, up the hill, up the hill", "Oh, you, girl, are a nut of grain", "Oh, there are three wells in the field", etc.)
For choir:
"Poem" on the words of Taras Shevchenko for mixed choir;
"Morning" with lyrics by V. Kot for mixed choir;
"Glory to my Kyivan Rus" (Anthem of Ukraine).
For orchestra:
Symphony No. 1 (unfinished; 1st movement and sketches of 2nd movement);
A large number of arrangements and orchestrations written for the orchestra and soloists of the G. Maiboroda National Honored Bandura Chapel of Ukraine (among them - "Oh You, Engaged Girl" (orchestrated in 1973, restored from memory in 1994); Latvian folk song "Viy Verekets" (1973); translations of classical works: G. Rossini's Chorus "Conversation" from the opera "The Barber of Seville", Z. Fibich's "Poem")
For various instruments:
"Adagio" for violin and piano;
"Fugue" for piano;
"Polonaise" for piano
