Ukrainian ethnomusicologist and composer, folklorist. Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine.
Biography.
He graduated from high school in Dubno, Rivne region, and from music school at the R. Glier Kyiv Music College and the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory.
He has recorded about 7 thousand song pearls of Ukrainian folklore.
Creative works
Books:
"The Color of a Silk Braid" (Chernivtsi, 2004, songs based on the words of Yuriy Fedkovych and about him),
"Songs of the Budzhak Steppe" (Tatarbunary, 2003, Odesa region),
"Father Asked, Mother Asked" (Chernivtsi, 2005, wedding rituals and songs of Shevchenkove village, Kiliya district, Odesa region),
"Oh, Beyond the Blue Danube" (Chernivtsi, 2007, folk songs of the Danube region recorded from the descendants of the Cossacks of the Danube Sich),
"The Eternal Rusava" (Vinnytsia, 2003, folk songs of the village of Stina, Tomashpillia district, Vinnytsia region),
"Oh, Don't Braid, Buzka, My Son" (Sniatyn, 2008, folk songs from Vasyl Stefanyk's family village of Rusiv, Sniatyn district, Ivano-Frankivsk region),
"Song Treasures of Negostyna" (Chernivtsi, 2006, folk songs of Ukrainians living in the Suceava County of Romania),
"Bukovyna, my native land" (Chernivtsi, 2008, folk songs of Ukrainians of Southern Bukovyna, co-authored with I. Kideshchuk),
"Sing, my Bukovyna" (Bucharest, 2009, folk songs of Ukrainians of Southern Bukovyna, Romania, co-authored with I. Kideshchuk),
"Oh, come down, periwinkle" (Chernivtsi, 2009, folk songs from the repertoire of the folk folklore and ethnographic ensemble "Yuzhynetski Molodychky" Kitsman district, Chernivtsi region).
"Oh, play for us, trembitonka" (Chernivtsi, 2009) and "Oh in the mountains of spruce" (Vyzhnytsia, 2010, folk songs of Vyzhnytsia district, Chernivtsi region).
Awards
He has been awarded a number of literary and artistic prizes: named after Sydor Vorobkevych, Yurii Fedkovych, brothers Bohdan and Levko Lepkykh, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Mariyka Pidhiryanka, and Denys Sichynskyi.
