Nechyporenko Mykola Ivanovych (28 June 1937 - 17 March 2017) was a Ukrainian kobzar-bandura player, conductor, and public figure. He was a teacher of the highest category in the bandura class at the Zhytomyr Music College named after Viktor Kosenko. Multiple winner of Ukrainian and international competitions. Honoured Worker of Culture of Ukraine. Laureate of the Ivan Ohienko Prize (1995). By the Decree of the President of Ukraine of 18 November 2009, he was awarded the Ivan Mazepa Cross. Head of the Zhytomyr Association of the National Union of Kobzars. His name is included in the Golden Book of the Ukrainian Elite (2000).
He was born in the family of a village blacksmith and a collective farmer on 28 June 1937 in the village of Netesivka, Tsarychansky district, Dnipro region.
His childhood years were spent in the village of Mayachka, Nekhvoroshchanskyi (now Novosanzharskyi) district, Poltava region.
From 1954, Mykola Nechyporenko studied at the Mykola Lysenko Poltava Music College, first on the French horn, but due to the loss of his eyesight in the 2nd year, he continued his studies, persistently mastering the bandura. Before graduating from the music school, the bandura player's eyesight was restored.
In 1959, Mykola Nechyporenko successfully entered the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory and worked as an artist of the Heorhiy Maiboroda State Honoured Bandura Choir. Since 1961, he has been the artistic director of the Bandura Bandura Chapel of the Boryspil District House of Culture and a concert bandura soloist. Since 1964, he has been an artist of the Concert and Lecture Association at the Music Society of Ukraine.
In 1970, he graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory with the highest certification as a concert performer and director of the bandura ensemble.
Since 1973, he has been working at the Zhytomyr Music College named after Viktor Kosenko as a teacher of bandura. Over the years of teaching bandura at the school, Mykola Nechyporenko has trained many students who are not indifferent to Ukrainian song and bandura art.
At the Zhytomyr Technical School of Mechanical Wood Processing (now Zhytomyr Technological College), he organised a bandura band, which he led for 15 years. This creative team became the winner of the Union Competition of Amateur Art four times.
Along with teaching and leading the chapel, he is well respected as an artist. His professional mastery of the instrument and voice (baritone) enable him to perform works of various genres - historical dumas, ballads, romances and folk songs.
In 1991, after winning the competition of professional bandura singers for the best performance of the duma genre, Mykola Ivanovych was invited as a soloist to participate in the concert tour of the State Honoured Bandura Choir of Ukraine in foreign countries: Switzerland, France, etc.
In 2014, the Zhytomyr publishing house "Ruta" published Mykola Nechyporenko's autobiographical confession entitled: "How I got to this life".
On 17 March 2017, Zhytomyr said goodbye to one of the best bandura players, a patriot of Ukraine who made a significant personal contribution to the development of the Ukrainian national idea and culture.
Repertoire
16th century duma "The Storm on the Black Sea"
Duma "Death of a Cossack Bandura Player"
Duma "About Pavlo Morozenko"
Duma "About Nechai"
thought "The Cry of a Slave"
thought by P. Maiboroda to the words of O. Nikonenko "Human blood is not water"
thought "About Zhytomyr" to music by I. Slyta
dumas to the words of V. Sirsky, O. Shved, L. Sapa, music by Mykola Nechyporenko
a thought about the Ukrainian Army "Graves"
the thought "About the Race"
Duma "Black Dust of Chernobyl"
historical songs about Ustym Karmalyuk
think "About Baida" and many others
folk songs, romances, modern lyrics
