Artur Volodymyrovych Mykytka (born 24 February 1946, Stryi, Lviv region) - Ukrainian violinist, teacher, professor, People's Artist of Ukraine (2006).
Biography.
Graduated from the Lviv Music College (class of Oleksandr Yegorov).
1969 - graduated from the Lviv Conservatory (class of Bohdan Kaskiv, Dmytro Lekher).
Since 1965, he has been a member of the Academy Chamber Orchestra. Since 1992, he has been the director and concertmaster of this ensemble.
Since 2003 - Head of the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet at the Lviv Music Academy. Since 2004, he has been a professor.
Also, from 1969-2002, he was a violin teacher at the Lviv Music and Pedagogical College, where he founded the violin ensemble and chamber orchestra.
His repertoire includes works by Ukrainian composers Viktor Kaminsky, Ivan Karabyts, Mykola Kolessa, Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky, Olha Kryvolap, Yuriy Laniuk, Hennadiy Lyashenko, Myroslav Skoryk, Yevhen Stankovych, Bohdana Frolyak and others (mostly premieres), as well as music by world classics. In 2005, he initiated the 'Christmas Musical Gifts' concerts with the chamber orchestra, soloists and choirs, and in 2014, 'Chamber Evenings at the Academy', and held two all-Ukrainian competitions for chamber ensembles and quartets. Among A. Mykytka's students are laureates of national and international quartet competitions in Poland, Armenia, Lviv and Odesa, participants of the international festivals "Music in Old Krakow", "Music in Old Lviv", "European Meetings in Warsaw".
Touring: Participation in prestigious festivals such as Kyiv Music Fest, Virtuosos, Contrasts, monographic concerts of composer M. Skoryk. Skoryk (under his direction as artistic director and conductor of the Academy Orchestra) with world premieres of his works and transcriptions, composers M. Kolessa, G. Lyashenko, I. Shcherbakov, V. Kaminsky, I. Karabits, O. Kryvolap, P. Vasks, K. Penderecky. Since 2012, he has been performing at various festivals in Poland, Germany, Sweden, France, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and the International Piano Forum "Beskydy Bez Borders" in Sanok (Poland).
Family.
Wife Nadiia Rykova is a pianist, head of the special piano department at the Lviv State Music School named after S. Krushelnytska.
Father of Zhanna and Volodymyr Mykytok.
Works
Author of the monograph "Lviv Chamber Orchestra 1959 -1999", "Light and Shadow" edition. Lviv, 2000, "Lviv Chamber Orchestra 1959 -2012", "Spline" edition. Lviv, 2012, "Lviv Chamber Orchestra 1959-2022" 50+10'' edition ''Register-7'' Lviv, 2021, author of the idea and executive editor of the monograph "Lesia Derkach - violinist, chamber musician, teacher in research and memoirs", published by T. Tetiuk. Tetyuk, Lviv, 2014, publications in domestic and foreign scientific journals - "Lviv Chamber Orchestra" in the collection "Pages of the History of the Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko". Lysenko, "Spolom", Lviv - 2003, "Lwowska orkiestra kameralna", "Kamerton", No. 1-2, 2003, Rzeszowskie towarzysrwo musical, Rzeszow, 2003, "Z istorii Lwowskiej kameralistyki (Lwowska orkiestra kameralna) "Musica Galiciana", t.IX., Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Rzeszow, 2005, Chamber Orchestra "Academy" '''' in the collection "Pages of the History of the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy. Articles. Memoirs', 'Posvit', Drohobych - 2008, 'Through the prism of time' in the collection 'Pages of the history of the Lviv State Music School named after S.P.Liudkevych', published by Te Rus, Lviv - 2009 '''Lviv Chamber Orchestra - School of Chamber Performance''' in the collection ''Chamber Instrumental Ensemble - History. Theory. Practice'', v.24.book 1, '' Spolom''.Lviv.2010, ''Lviv Chamber Orchestra 'Academy'.Chronicle.Continuation.'' in the collection ''Chamber Instrumental Ensemble - History. Theory. Practice'' .issue 25 , 'Lviv Chamber Orchestra 'Academy' and the Conductors' in the collection 'Chamber Instrumental Ensemble - History, Theory, Practice', issue 31.LNMA named after Mykola Lysenko.Lviv.-2013, 'Chamber Orchestra 'Academy' and the Conductors' in the collection 'Chamber instrumental. Ensemble.History,Theory,Practice'' issue 34, Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, Lviv, 2015, '' Maestro Saulius Sondetskis and Lviv Chamber Orchestra "Academy", theses of the scientific and practical conference "Chamber Space of Lviv Region - Figures and Facts", Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, Lviv. 2018, "Lviv Chamber Orchestra "Akademiya", part two 1959-2019", abstracts of the international scientific and practical conference "Familiar figures of chamber music, dedicated to the anniversary dates". Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, Lviv, 2019,,'Lviv Chamber Orchestra 'Academy' by Beethoven.'Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference, Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, Lviv, 2020,'A short return to the beautiful past' in the collection. 'Pages of history to the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Stryi Children's Music School named after O. Nyzhankivskyi', Ukrpol Publishing House, 2013, 'Lviv Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Oleksandra Derkach (1959-1990)', Concert performances of the Lviv Chamber Orchestra under the direction of O.P.Derkach (1959-1990),' Articles and reviews (1959-1999) in the collection ''Lesia Derkach - violinist, cameraman, teacher in scientific research and memoirs'', published by T.Tetyuk, Lviv, 2014, ''Bright creative nature... about I.Pylyatyuk'' in the collection ''Soundscape of Ihor Pylyatyuk'', Lviv, Ukrainian Academy of Printing, 2014, ''We were united by love for art''.Vasyl Otkovych.The circle of life memoirs of contemporaries. Lviv, "Colour of Missile Defence", 2020, textbook "String and bow ensembles", edition. Textbooks and manuals, Ternopil, 2006, compiler and author of editions of the collections "Miniatures for String Orchestra from the repertoire of the Lviv Chamber Orchestra", LNMA 2009, "String and Bow Chamber Miniature", "Posvit", Drohobych-Lviv, 2013, "Orchestral Miniatures from the repertoire of the chamber orchestra "ACADEMY", ed. Register -7'' Lviv, 2016, S. Liudkevych "Miniatures for String Quartet", S. Liudkevych Pieces for violin and piano in transcriptions by Professor D. Lekher, published by T. Tetyuk, Lviv, 2018, curricula for chamber orchestra, string quartet for higher education institutions, own works
DISCOGRAPHY
As a leader and concertmaster of the orchestra, he recorded 4 audio cassettes (Dudaryk Studio, 1993-1997), 12 CDs, including works by Lviv composers Mykola Kolessa (GalRecords, 2003), Lviv Impressions (Lev Studio, 2005), transcriptions of M. Skoryk's La belle musique (Lev Studio, 2005), The Garden of Passions (Lev Studio, 2005), With Love in the Heart (Atlantic, Kyiv, 2004). Violin duets with the orchestra of Lydia and Ostap Shutko (RostokRecords, Kyiv, 2003), Harpsichord concertos by J.S.Bach, soloist Zh.Mykytka ('Dudaryk forever', 2006), 'Academia Live' ('Dudaryk forever', 2008). ), solos by V. Barvinsky, S. Lyudkevych, M. Skoryk, soloist O. Krovytska (HAM Recording, 2007), works by V. Vytvytsky, conducted by I. Pylyatyuk (GalRecords 2008. ), 'Retrospectives 1959-2010' (Lev Studio, 2010), 'Seasons and Tango by A.Piazzolla' (Zhyvyi Zvuk Records, 2012), 'Skoryk Forever' (Zhyvyi Zvuk Records, 2014). ), Music of E.Chosson with soloists V.Vynnytskyi and O.Brusilovskyi, conductor I.Pilatyuk, ('Suniecolori', 2014, France), Skoryk in Jazz, conductor M.Skoryk (UKR Artists, 2018), Organ concertos by J.Haydn and H.F.Handel, soloist V.Liyak, conductor I.Pilatyuk (Polonica, 2019, Poland).
Recognition
. 1995 - Honoured Artist of Ukraine
2006 - People's Artist of Ukraine
2009 - Badge "For Merit to Polish Culture"
2011 - Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd degree (2011)
2001 - Stanislav Lyudkevych Music Prize
2019 - Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
2020 - Silver medal Honoured for Polish culture "Gloria Artis
