Anatoliy Miroshnyk (born August 19, 1923 - died July 14, 2011) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, teacher, musician and public figure.
Anatoliy Mirosznyk was born in Kyiv, where he graduated from the secondary special music school for ten years at the Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservatory, where he studied piano with E. Tolpin. After graduating from the conservatory in 1941, he played in the Kyiv Orchestra.
During the Second World War, Kyiv was occupied by German troops and all members of the Kyiv Orchestra were taken to Germany for forced labor, where the young man worked on deforestation and construction. After the war ended, Miroshnyk ended up in a displaced persons camp in Bayreuth. There he met his fellow countrymen, violinist and former professor at the Lviv Conservatory Volodymyr Tsysyk (father of Kvitka Tsysyk) and virtuoso double bassist Yakiv Pohrebinsky, and the musicians formed a trio and began to give concerts.
In 1946, he entered the Freiburg Conservatory (German: Hochshule fur Musik) in the class of K. Seiman, who then recommended the student to work at the Frankfurt Radio. Attends private lessons with the famous pianist Walter Gieseking, and becomes a piano performer and composer.
In 1948, he emigrated to Australia and settled in Sydney. Like all other emigrants of that time, he signed a contract according to which he had to work wherever the authorities sent him. The musician first worked as an orderly in a hospital, and later as an assistant director of a hotel for newly arrived emigrants.
After the end of his contract, Miroshnyk prepared an extensive program and gave a solo concert in the main concert hall at Sydney City Hall.
In Australia, he devoted himself entirely to the development of Ukrainian music and taught it. He performed concerts throughout Australia and far beyond.
In recent years, he has "returned" to Ukrainian soil, where his works have been very favorably received. Anatoly Miroshnyk was awarded membership in the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. He dreamed of taking part in a concert in honor of the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, but it was not to be.
Anatoliy Mykhailovych died on July 14, 2011 in Sydney. He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery, near Lidcombe.
Entrepreneurship
In 1953, Miroshnyk founded the Australian Cosmopolitan Record Company, which released records by Ukrainian singers in Australia,[4] such as Volodymyr Rychtovsky, Taisa Taras, Yakiv Rudyuk, Zina Moroz, and others, as well as the Boyan Choir. These records have become rare and are likely to be highly valued by collectors.
Creative work
Anatoliy Miroshnyk gave concerts in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. He himself considered his performances in Kyiv at the International Music Festival "Kyiv Music Fest" in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2003 to be the pinnacle of his musical career.
His compositions were performed in Kyiv by him and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra. Anatoliy Mykhailovych wrote several compositions for piano, violin, cello, singers, orchestra, and choir. His songs are sung by the women's ensemble Sutsvittia, which was created in Sydney.
Works by A. Miroshnyk
Compositions
1962 - "Causal", choreographic poem with orchestra
1988 - "Ukrainian Rhapsody" for piano and orchestra
1995 - "Concert Fantasy" for piano and orchestra
1996 - "The Last Night of the Poet", ballet on the theme of Taras Shevchenko's life and work (libretto by Arkady Novitsky)
1999 - "Concerto No. 1" for piano and orchestra
Pieces of small form for piano.
Books and collections of music
Miroshnyk A. Love Ukraine: a collection of works - Kyiv: "Kyiv Music Fest", Music Information Center of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, Kyiv State Higher Music School named after R. M. Glier, 2001. 132 p.
Miroshnyk A. Australiana: a collection of 20 etudes-pictures for piano for children - Kyiv: Musical Ukraine, 2007. Sheet music edition. 39 p. ISMN 979-0-707502-82-2
Miroshnyk A. Music and Fate. - Kyiv: "Musical Ukraine", 2008. - 172 p. ISBN 978-966-8259-35-7
Mirosznyk A. How do you like Australia? - Australia, 2009.- 143 p. - ISBN 978-0-646-51734-6
The above collections of music were published under the sponsorship of the Australian Australian Studies Foundation and distributed to music schools in Ukraine.
