Ihor V. Macijewski

Doctor of Art Criticism, composer, ethnomu­sicologist, Professor and Head of the Instrumen­tation Sector at the Russian Institute of Art History. Born in Kharkiv. In 1965 he graduated from Lviv State Conservatory with a degree in com­po­sition (class of A. Soltys), an assistant-intern­ship in the class of composition of O. Ev­lakhov, a postgraduate course in the instrumental science sector of the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (now the Russian Institute of Art History). In the 1970s he taught compo­sition at Ivano-Frankivsk Musical College, in the 1980s—at Mussorgsky Leningrad Musical Col­lege, in the early 1990s—composition and instru­men­tation at Lviv State Conservatory. He also taught at the Folk Song Art Department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts. Since 1993—Professor of Composition and teacher of courses in Organology and Musical Anthropo­logy at Petrozavodsk State Conser­va­tory. Pro­fessor of the Sound Engineering De­part­ment, St. Peters­burg Humanitarian Uni­ver­sity of Trade Unions. The composer’s works include several dozen major symphonic, chamber and choral cycles, as well as music for 12 films. Member of the Unions of Composers of St. Pe­ters­burg, Rus­sia and Ukraine, Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine and Poland, Academician of the Rus­sian Academy of Natural Sciences and the UN International Academy of Informatization, member of the UNESCO International Council of Traditional Music.