Ukrainian and Jewish choral conductor, composer, teacher, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1934), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1947). Member of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society.
Biography.
Since 1904, he studied piano at the Kyiv Music School (teacher - H. Bobynskyi).
1918 - graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory, composition class (teachers Vasyl Kalafati and Jazepsa Vitols).
1919-1921 - director of the First Soviet Symphony Choir in Katerynoslav (now Dnipro).
From 1921, he was the head of a Jewish music school, where he also taught piano.
1924 - creates a choral studio at the Jewish club "Komfon" ("Banner of Communism") for workers to receive musical education.
1925-1929 - Head of the Second Jewish Music Vocational School (formerly the Cultural League Music School), teacher at the Music College (formerly the Conservatory) in Kyiv.
1929-1930 - organizer and artistic director of the Jewish music and choral chapel "Evokans" (in 1931 the chapel received the status of a state all-Ukrainian chapel, from 1934 - "Honored State Jewish Choral Chapel of the Ukrainian SSR"), which was based in Kharkiv.
In the early 1930s, he was a composer for the Kyiv State Jewish Theater.
In January 1940, he moved to Birobidzhan, where he began to create the State Choir of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, but soon returned to Kyiv, where, according to some sources, in 1940 he headed the Ukrainian Radio Choir. According to other sources, this choir was led by Oleksandr Minkivsky until 1941.
At the beginning of the war, he lost his family, who were shot by the Nazis. Yehoshua Pavlovych courageously endured his grief and fully devoted himself to his work. During the war, he directed the Red Army Ensemble of the Kyiv Military District and the Song and Dance Ensemble of the First Belarusian Front, which gave more than 2000 frontline concerts.
1945-1948 - Head of the Ensemble of the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany, Major.
He died in Potsdam in 1948 under unclear circumstances.
Works by the composer
His oeuvre consists of works related to Jewish themes, including children's piano pieces, music for dramatic performances, etc.
In 1929, he published 2 collections of Jewish folk songs arranged for choir.
Memory.
Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Chervinsky published an essay about Yehoshua Pavlovich, initiated the restoration of his monument at the military cemetery in Potsdam and the installation of a porcelain medallion with a color portrait on it.
