Conductor and composer of popular songs based on folklore, originally from the Pryashiv region.
Biography.
He graduated from the Greek Catholic Teachers' Seminary in Presov, worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools, and after studying choral singing and conducting in Bratislava, he became the artistic director of the Pidduklian Ukrainian Folk Ensemble (PUNA) in 1958.
He was a good connoisseur of Ruthenian folklore and folk songs, which he recorded.
His works.
Tsymbora arranged more than 300 folk songs of the southern Lemkivshchyna. Tsymbora is a co-author of the collection "Ukrainian Folk Songs of the Presov Region" (part 1, 1958), author of "Ukrainian Folk Songs of Eastern Slovakia" (part 2, 1963); collections "Let's Sing with Two Voices" (1974), "Melodies of the Heart" (1981), and others.
Memory.
On September 27, 2016, the Pidduklian Library in Svidník hosted a presentation of the book "Yurko Tsymbora" by ethnographer, cultural and public figure Yanka Kalyniak dedicated to Yurko Tsymbora.
