Nazariy Ihorovych Pylyatyuk (born 17 January 1987, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian violinist, teacher, Honoured Artist of Ukraine (2015), associate professor, winner of international competitions, soloist-instrumentalist of the highest category of the National House of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine (Kyiv).
Biography.
His father is People's Artist of Ukraine, Rector of the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy (since 1999) Ihor Pyliatyuk. His mother is a pianist. He studied at the Kyiv and Lviv Special Music Schools (classes of I. Pylyatyuk), Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko (classes of I. Pylyatyuk, graduated in 2009). He took master classes with Bohodar Kotorovych. He received his second higher education at the Lysenko National Music Academy (specialising in opera and symphony conducting).
He worked as a concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra in Opole (Poland, 2007-2010). After returning to Ukraine, in October 2010, he won the Grand Prix of the competition "In the Blessing of Violinists' Hands" (Ternopil). After that, he became a soloist of the Youth Symphony Orchestra "INSO - Lviv".
Winner of international competitions:
Bohodar Kotorovych International Violin Competition (Kharkiv, 1999),
International Competition of Violinists named after. K. Flesch (Hungary, 2003?(4)),
International Violin Competition named after Mykola Lysenko (Kyiv, 2007),
Winner of the Grand Prix of the Violin Competition "In the Blessing of Violinists' Hands" (Ternopil, 2010),
At the Y. Yankelevych International Violin Competition in Omsk (Russia, 2011), he won the First Prize and a special prize - a violin made by the outstanding French master A. Carbonard.
In 2009, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
On 4 June 2016, he gave a concert in his father's hometown during the first Pinsel Days festival.
In 2010, he was awarded the Big Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
He was awarded the Prize of Young Scientists of the Lviv Regional State Administration and Regional Council (2010).
In 2014, he was awarded the title of Candidate of Art History of Ukraine.
Participant of festivals: Music-Fest (Kyiv, 1999), Days of Ukrainian Culture in Moldova (Chisinau, 2000), Stars of the Planet (Yalta, 2001-2003), January Evenings (Brest, 2004), Music is Our Common Home (Kharkiv, 2003), Days of Music on the Oder (Poland), A. Didur Festival (Poland, 2005), Festival of German Music in Poland (Poland, 2006), Hunter Festival (USA, 2008-2010-2014). 2013 Myroslav Skoryk Music Days (Kyiv, 2013), Charnleston Music-Fest (USA, 2014). Laureate of the New Names of Ukraine Cultural Foundation (Ukraine, 2001), regular participant of the Virtuosos Festival (Lviv).
Scholar of the V. Spivakov Foundation (2004); Presidential Scholar (2005-2009). Best Student of the Year (Ukraine, 2008).
In 2008-2010, he was a concertmaster and soloist of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Opole (Poland). He began studying the violin at the age of seven with his father Ihor Pylyatyuk and in the studio at the Ivano-Frankivsk Sichynsky Music College (class of R. Shiptur), then at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Secondary Specialised Music School (1998-2000). He graduated from the Lviv Secondary Special Music Boarding School named after S. Krushelnytska (2000-2004) in the class of Professor I. Pylyatyuk. 2004-2011, he studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (class of Professor I. Pylyatyuk). He improved his performing skills at master classes of professors Bohodar Kotorovych (2000-2007), Zakhar Bron (Poland, 2002; Moscow, 2004; Hamburg, 2006), Michael Frischenschlager (Austria, 2003, 2005), Josef Tomaszek (Austria, 2004), Anna Chumachenko (Munich, 2007).
Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at the violin department of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.
In 2014, he conducted the premiere of Mykola Lysenko's opera based on the play of the same name by Ivan Kotliarevskyi "Natalka Poltavka" arranged by M. Skoryk at the Lviv National Opera House.
In 2014-2015 he was an intern at the Liszt Academy (Weimar, Germany) in the class of Professor M. Simma.
He conducts an intense concert and touring activity in Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Germany. Hungary, Sweden, Finland, and the USA.
The Hero of Ukraine, Shevchenko laureate, composer Myroslav Skoryk dedicated his Concerto No. 7 for violin and symphony orchestra to Nazariy Pylyatyuk, which was recorded by NAXOS in 2014 with the National Odesa Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the world-famous conductor Earl Hobart. He has performed with the National Swedish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra; the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine; Kyiv Soloists, Lviv Virtuosi, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv Philharmonic named after S. Liudkevych, and the Academy Chamber Orchestra of the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy of Lviv.
He collaborates with Ukrainian conductors: I. Yuziuk, Y. Kolesa, M. Kriel, V. Syvokhyp, Y. Bervetskyi, I. Pylyatyuk, S. Burko, B. Plashch, M. Skoryk, V. Sirenko, V. Ploskina and S. Sondetskis (Baltic States), Z. Richerd (Germany), B. David and C. Grabowski (both Poland), E. Hobart (Ukraine, USA), G. Mosop (Sweden), as well as with outstanding performers, including pianists: P. Dovhan (Ukraine), V. Vynnytsky (USA), M. Dragan (Ukraine), D. Onishchenko (Ukraine), E. Chupryk (Ukraine), T. Voytekh; organists: V. Koshuba, V. Balakhovska, I. Kharechko, M. Sydorenko; cellists: N. Khoma (USA), T. Mentsynsky (Ukraine), Y. Lanyuk (Ukraine), Y. Myhal (Ukraine); I. Kucher; violists: Randy Kelly (concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, USA), B. Devyatov (USA), R. Borkovsky (Ukraine); violinists: Anastasia Pylyatyuk (concertmaster of the Valencia Opera), F. Kassik (concertmaster of the Dresden Chapel), O. Krysa (USA, Ukraine), V. Spivakov (Russia), A. Rabinova (USA), O. Brusilovsky (France).
