Borys Palshko (November 29, 1928, Kolomna - June 12, 1998, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian violist, musicologist, composer and teacher, professor at the Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservatory.
He was born in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, in the family of a locomotive factory worker.
1945-1949 - studying at the Moscow Conservatory Music School.
1949-1954 - studying at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory (class of Professor E. Strakhov). He graduated from both the school and the conservatory with honors.
In 1954, he was hired as a member of the symphony orchestra of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater.
Since 1965, he has worked as a viola teacher at the Kyiv State Conservatory. Since 1979, he has been an associate professor, and since 1990, a professor.
Among his students: S. Denysiuk, K. Tsurikov, S. Romanskyi, A. Hrebeniuk, O. Tytorenko, B. Fesiuk, B. Shchutskyi, Y. Tretiak, V. Kadurin, R. Kuts, I. Horpenko, Y. Wenger, and others.
1971 - defended his PhD thesis "Peculiarities of orchestral performance and issues of methodology of training violist-orchestrator".
He has published more than 80 scientific and methodological works on the specifics of viola training, including "Technique of playing the viola in an orchestra: for students of music schools and universities".
As a composer, he wrote the works "24 Caprices" for solo viola, "Stream", and also made arrangements for viola, including "6 Pieces" by Arif Melikov, and the Viola Player's Albums.
He has arranged for publication viola works by Paul Hindemith, Ivan Handoshko, Carl Friedrich Zelter, and Franz Peter Schubert.
He has recordings in the Ukrainian Radio Fund.
