Ihor Shcherbakov

b. 1955 · Ukraine

Ihor Shcherbakov (b. 1955, Dnipropetrovsk) graduated in composition from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in 1979 under Professor V. D. Kyrejko. He is a professor at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music, served as president of the Kyiv Composers’ Union from 1999–2010, and has chaired the National Composers’ Union of Ukraine since 2010. His symphonic, theatrical, chamber, instrumental, vocal, choral, and children’s music has been performed throughout Ukraine and in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, France, Canada, Italy, Slovakia, the USA, Hungary, Belarus, Russia, and Uzbekistan. He was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize for his significant contributions to modern Ukrainian musical culture.

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Awards

T. G. Shevchenko National Award (1999)

Performed at UCMF

Canzone for Two Violins

UCMF 2020 · Fifty Years of Ukrainian Culture · Feb 28 · 1999 · Chamber

Iryna Kit & Anastasiya Antoniv, violins

Performed by Iryna Kit (Violin), Anastasia Antoniv (Violin)

Kanzona for Two Violins by Ihor Shcherbakov is dedicated to violinists Nina Sivachenko and Igor Andrievsky. The work was written for the Music Salons Festival in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia), where it was premiered in June 1999 by its dedicatees. The basic idea of the work is “in search of a melody from nothing, from void” and occupied Shcherbakov very strongly in the late nineties. The work is meditative and expressive.

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