Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Tsysyk (20 September 1913, Lisky, now Kolomyia district, Ukraine - 7 February 1971, New York) was a Ukrainian violin virtuoso, musician and teacher, professor of music in Galicia, USA. Father of Maria and Kvitka Tsysyk.
Biography
Volodymyr Cisyk's naturalisation record in the United States, 1955.
Record of naturalisation in the United States of Ivanna Cisyk, 1955.
Volodymyr Cisyk's family comes from the village of Lisky near Kolomyia.
He received his musical education at the Lysenko Higher Music Institute and Conservatory in Lviv, and later in Prague and Munich.
In 1942-1944, he was a concertmaster at the Lviv Opera House.
In 1944, the Tsysyk family was taken to a displaced persons camp in the German city of Bayreuth. Volodymyr, together with his cellist brother Zenon Tsysyk and fellow countryman Anatolii Miroshnyk, formed a musical trio that gave concerts and performed for wounded Allied troops in hospitals.
A year later, their first daughter Maria was born.
In 1949, the Tsysyk family moved to the United States, where Volodymyr became a co-founder and teacher at the Ukrainian Music Institute in New York in 1952. He was also the director of the string orchestra there. Recordings of Volodymyr Cisyk's violin accompaniment were released on discs of Ukrainian songs.
On 15 March 1955, the Cisyk couple, Volodymyr and Ivanna, were granted US citizenship:
On 7 February 1971, while performing the ending of the first movement of a concert at the Ukrainian Music Institute in New York, the violinist fell ill. On the way to the hospital, he died at the age of 57. On 10 February, a memorial service was held. On 11 February, after the service at St George's Church, Volodymyr Cisyk's body was taken to the family casket in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
