Leonid Zatulovskyi (September 1, 1935, Bila Tserkva - December 16, 2018, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian musician, composer, conductor, teacher, cultural and public figure, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Leonid Zatulovsky was born on September 1, 1935 in the city of Bila Tserkva in the family of a military man. Since 1944 he lived in Chernivtsi.
He studied at Chernivtsi Secondary School No. 3, where a brass band functioned. His first musical instrument was the trumpet. He first got acquainted with the piano at the Chernivtsi Music School, where he graduated in 1955 and became a teacher at the Children's Music School No. 1 in Chernivtsi, where he was destined to work for 50 years.
While serving in the army, he wrote his first two pop songs, "Soldier's Lyrical" and "Moon Roads."
L. Zatulovsky is an excellent teacher and professional musician, composer and conductor.
He is a living history of the cultural and artistic life of the city of Chernivtsi.
He organized several brass bands in the city, founded and directed one of the first amateur variety ensembles in Bukovyna, Yunist (since 1967, Orbita), at the Chernivtsi Regional Teacher's House. He was the founder and, in 1976-1980, the musical director of the Cheremosh vocal and pop ensemble of the Chernivtsi Regional Philharmonic, which won the Young Voices Republican Competition, and its soloists, Lidia Rotaru and Aurika Rotaru, are also known outside Ukraine.
Later, he founded the first pop-symphony orchestra in Bukovyna at the Chernivtsi Association of Music Ensembles, where he worked as a conductor.
This is indeed a huge spiritual strain for a professional who was engaged in a prominent concert activity, rehearsal and methodological work with amateur and professional groups, while also arranging and processing folk songs and other examples of Bukovinian folklore.
L. Zatulovsky is deservedly considered one of the leading specialists in the training of musical personnel in Bukovyna: performers, teachers, conductors, composers...
Among them are Vasyl Mykhailiuk, Kostiantyn Mitran, Andriy Plishka, as well as People's Artist of Ukraine, composer Mykola Mozgovyi, trumpeter Karl Nemechek (now a German citizen), professor of the Novosibirsk Conservatory Viktor Slepynin, composers Viktor Buslenko and Anatoliy Alper in St. Petersburg, and others.
Leonid Zatulovsky is currently an Honored Artist of Ukraine, winner of the Sydor Vorobkevych Regional Literary and Art Prize and the Sidi Tal International Prize named after Honored Artist of Ukraine.
In 1996, a star in the constellation Lyra was named after him.
Creative achievements
About 80 pop songs published in twelve music collections (among the most famous are "Forget the Sadness" and "Magic Tango with lyrics by T. Severniuk).
a number of pieces for symphony, chamber, brass and pop-symphony orchestras;
symphonic poem "Bukovyna";
"Bukovynian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-3 for symphony orchestra;
cantata "Memory" for soloists, choir and symphony orchestra;
symphonic suite "Wandering Stars";
cycle of preludes "Children's Album" for piano;
a cycle of songs for a boys' choir "Children's Album for Trumpet";
music for three performances of Sidi Tal's Concertino;
"Concertino for piano and symphony orchestra;
a large number of choral works, etc;
music for four plays;
He created a large number of works and original arrangements for ensembles of various instrumental compositions - jazz, vocal-instrumental, folk, brass, accordion and accordion ensembles.
Among the performers are the composer's works:
National Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Ukraine,
Academic Bukovyna Song and Dance Ensemble,
Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Chernivtsi Regional Philharmonic,
Nayani Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of New York. New York,
VIA "Cheremosh", "Smerichka", "Surmy",
People's Artists of Ukraine Sofia Rotaru, Ivan Krasovsky, Y. Tabachnyk, Y. Bogatikov, V. Zinkevich, N. Yaremchuk, L. Sandulesa, Honored Artists of Ukraine Aurika Rotaru, S. Tal, V. Kuprina, Y. Soltys, I. Derda, violin duo P. Chobotov and L. Shapko, etc.
Awards.
Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine (1996);
Sidor Vorobkevych Literary and Art Prize (2006);
Sidi Tal International Prize (1997);
Laureate of international and Ukrainian competitions and festivals (multiple times).
