Pivko Tymofii Tymofiiovych (1901 - 1987) was a bandura player, artist, member of the Kyiv Bandura Chapel since 1931 and the united State Bandura Chapel since 1935. He moved to the USA in 1949 and continued to perform as an artist of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandura Bandura Chapel until 1972.
Soloist of the Chapel. He had a wonderful lyrical tenor. His friends jokingly called him "our Lemeshev". He was a member of the Kyiv Bandura Bandura Chapel before it was merged with the Poltava Bandura Band. When the Poltava group came, he became interested in the Kharkiv method of playing the bandura and mastered it well. In his book Living Strings, Ulas Samchuk describes the life of the family of Tymofii and Olena Pivko in the pre-war period when they worked at the State Model Chapel. To survive, Pivko had to earn extra money as a shoemaker. However, they had a good apartment in the centre of Kyiv, where the members of the chapel often gathered. He was a very sociable and, of course, reliable chorister and bandura player. When he got sick with a stomach ulcer in Schupen (the camp for Ostarbeiters in Hamburg), he went on tour with the chapel to the Ost Ost Ost Ostian camps. The song helped him to recover. He performed the solo "Where Are You Going, Yavtusz" with great artistry. During the Detroit period, where he came with his wife Olena and mother Kateryna, he stuck more to the Polish community (he was half Polish). They had no children.
