Yurii Mazurkevych (born 6 May 1942, Lviv) is a Ukrainian Soviet and American violinist and music teacher.
Biography.
Yurii Mazurkevych was born on 6 May 1942 in Lviv. In 1965, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (class of David Oistrakh); in 1967, he completed an assistantship at the Conservatory. After graduation, he worked as a soloist with the Ukrconcert and taught at the Kyiv Conservatory.
In 1974 he emigrated to Canada, then to the United States. Since 1985, he has been a professor at Boston University.
Creative work
He performed concerts in Toronto in 1974, New York in 1976 and other cities, in a duo with his wife, violinist Dana Pomerantz-Mazurkiewicz, as well as with symphony orchestras. He toured the cities of the former Soviet Union, the USA, Canada, Australia, South America and Asia.
His repertoire includes works by Viktor Kosenko, Boris Lyatoshynsky, Myroslav Skoryk, Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, César Franck, and Georg Philipp Telemann.
Honours.
Laureate of international violin competitions in Helsinki in 1962, Munich in 1966, and Montreal in 1969;
Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1968.
