Sinelnikov Ivan Hryhorovych (born 25 November 1960, Pylypy, Zhytomyr region) is a Ukrainian folklorist and musicologist, collector and researcher of Ukrainian musical folklore. Honoured Worker of Culture of Ukraine (2004), professor.
He was awarded the badge "Excellence in Education of Ukraine" of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (1990), a diploma of the National Council of Ukraine (2007), a diploma of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine (2006), a member of the National Academy of Music of Ukraine (2001).
Biography
Sinelnikov Ivan Hryhorovych was born on 25 November 1960 in the village of Pylypy, Chudniv district, Zhytomyr region. In 1989, he graduated from the Rivne State Institute of Culture. While still a third-year student in 1986, he organised the folklore ensemble Dzherelo, which he led until 1990.
In parallel with his studies at the institute, Ivan Sinelnikov worked with the Kobzaryk children's ensemble of the Rivne boarding school. In 1981-1986, he was an artist of the Polissia Song and Dance Ensemble "Lenok" (Zhytomyr). In 1995-2010, he worked as an employee of the folk music department of the National Television Company of Ukraine, author and host of the radio programmes "From the Folklore Treasury", "From Folk Sources", "From the Funds of Ukrainian Radio".
Since 1991, Ivan Hryhorovych has been a lecturer at the Kyiv State Institute of Culture and Arts (now the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts). He teaches folklore ensemble, solo ensemble workshop, solo singing, methods of working with folklore groups and other professional disciplines. He has been the founder and permanent leader of the student folklore ensemble "Kralytsia" since 1991.
From 1999 to 2012, Ivan Hryhorovych held master classes in Ukrainian folk singing in Ukrainian and foreign educational institutions (Sochi, Krasnodar, Bryansk, Gubkin, Volgograd - Russia; Zhytomyr, Rivne, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia - Ukraine; Geneva, Lausanne - Switzerland). Since 2003, he has been a lecturer and methodologist at the laboratory of traditional culture of Ukrainians in Russia "Our Red Motherland" in memory of V. Skurativsky (Lazarevsky Centre of Ukrainian Culture in Sochi).
Sinelnikov's research interests include the training of folklore group leaders, methods of teaching folklore disciplines, the history of Russian Old Believers in the Zhytomyr region, and others. As a teacher and folklorist musician, he implements a policy of inheritance, preservation, popularisation and reasonable stage interpretation of the great folk song and instrumental heritage of the Ukrainian people.
