Petro Terpelyuk (15 April 1941, Sheparivtsi village, Kolomyia district - 12 November 2012) was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, People's Artist of Ukraine (16.09.1998), Professor of the Department of Folk Instruments and Musical Folklore at the Institute of Arts of the V. Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. He graduated from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory with a degree in violin (1969). Since 1977, he has been working at the Music Faculty of the V. Stefanyk Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute: Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor (2002), Professor (2006). He founded many orchestras of folk instruments in different cities of the region. As a virtuoso violinist, he performed on the stages of many countries of the world accompanied by folk music orchestras from Kosovo, Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, the joint folk music orchestra "Ukraine, Austria" and the orchestra of the Hutsul Song and Dance Ensemble. He has recorded for the All-Union Company "Melodiya", regional and national radio, and CDs. He is the author of works for violin and piano, arrangements of folk melodies for folk instruments orchestra.
Biography
Petro Terpeliuk was born on 15 April 1941 in the village of Sheparivtsi, Kolomyia district, into a musical family. His father, a well-known folk musician in his circle, often played at weddings and folk festivals. Since childhood, Petro Terpeliuk has participated as a musician in wedding bands. This musical practice became his "first conservatory". He studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Conservatory. And in 1965, he began his triumphant performing practice as a leader and soloist of folk music orchestras in the Carpathian region - first in Kosiv, later in Kolomyia and Ivano-Frankivsk.
His return to Kolomyia in 1971 was marked by the organisation of the Hutsulia Folk Instrument Orchestra, with which he toured many cities of the former USSR, made stock recordings on the All-Union, Republican, and regional radio, and recorded discs at the All-Union Melodiya company.
Since 1977, Petro Terpeliuk has been working in Ivano-Frankivsk at the Music Faculty of the then Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute named after V. Stefanyk. In the same year, he initiated the creation of a folk orchestra at the City House of Culture No. 1 in Ivano-Frankivsk. The Rhapsody Orchestra of Folk Instruments was created at the City House of Culture No. 1 in Ivano-Frankivsk. In 1980, the orchestra took part in the X International Festival-Contest of Folk Art of the Danube Lands (Yugoslavia), where it won the highest award among the participating groups from 28 countries - the Grand Prix and gold medals.
Since 1981, Petro Terpeliuk has headed the Kyiv Orchestra of Folk Instruments (now the National Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Ukraine), while teaching violin at the M. Gorky Pedagogical Institute (now the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University). Returning to Kolomyia in 1985, Petro Terpeliuk created another unique collective - the Hutsulyatko Children's Orchestra, which brought together young performers.
Since 1998, Petro Terpeliuk has been an associate professor at the V. Stefanyk Precarpathian University, teaching violin, leading a folklore ensemble, and teaching courses on "Folk Instrumental Art of Ukraine" and "Fundamentals of Improvisation". He was a professor at the newly created Department of Folk Instruments and Musical Folklore.
In 2003, Petro Terpeliuk started publishing the multi-part collection "My Hutsulia".
Confirmation of the artist's success was the awarding of the honorary title "People's Artist of Ukraine" and the presentation of the Denys Sichynskyi Regional Prize in the field of musical art.
On 12 November 2012, he died.
