Victor Mishalow interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection
- Bib ID:
- 6333317
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mishalow, Victor, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digital collection item.
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2013
- 3 sound files (approximately 249 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Victor Mishalow, born in Bankstown, Sydney, NSW, talks about his family background and history in the Ukraine and in Australia; his childhood in Georges Hall, NSW; his siblings; his parents; his family's influence on his musical interest; his observations of Ukrainian folksongs, authentic folksongs and Ukrainian city folksongs; Ukrainian Partisan songs of WWII; songs about the Ukrainian Holodomor; his exposure to bandura music; his grandfather; Kharkiv style playing; Ukrainian Bandura Ensemble; banduras made in Australia; developing his own technique of playing the bandura and his repertoire; his schooling and education; his musical education in Australia and overseas; his concerts and performances; his scholarship at Kiev Conservatory, Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music; his recollections of living in Kiev, Ukraine; being exposed to authentic bandura players; returning to University of Sydney; the impact of technology on folk music; wound strings and stringed instruments; musicology; the brain plasticity of bandura players; his life philosophy; folk clubs and folk festivals; his first record issued in Canada; Chernivtsi Rock Festival, Ukraine; Ukrainian politics; Kuban Ukraine; International Bandura Competition; the Ukrainian language; his doctorate and dissertation; being the highest qualified Bandura player in Ukraine; preservation of music; bandura playing in Ukraine and Canada; his bandura; learning from early manuscripts; comments made on purism and authenticity; Eastern and Western Ukrainian music; being published; his opportunities and connections in Australia and overseas to perform; the importance of the preservation of bandura scripts. Mishalow sings and performs several compositions on the bandura and explains different styles of playing.
- Partial contents:
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- Session 3: Bandura music: Kolomeyka (from Western Ukraine)
- Kozachok
- Slave Market (Kharkiv style)
- Duma - (musical interpretation of a Taras Shevchenko poem)
- Singing and bandura music: Duma - Cossacks going across the Black Sea
- Duma - Widow and her three sons.
- Biography/History:
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Victor Mishalow graduated from the Sydney University B.A. (1984) with a major in Musicology and Ethno-musicology. He continued post-graduate studies at the Sydney College of Advanced Education Dip. E. (1986) in music education, and then at Kiev Conservatory (1988) (M. Mus.). In February 2009 he successfully defended his Candidate of Science dissertation on the 'Cultural and artistic aspect of the genesis and development of performance on the Kharkiv bandura' at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. Mishalow was the first in Australia to do his practical HSC music performance exam at Carlingford High School on the bandura. In 1978 he received grants and scholarships from the Australian Council for the Arts and the NSW Permier's Department to undertake advanced studies in bandura in North America. In 1979 he received a scholarship from the Kiev Conservatory. In 1988 he settled in Toronto, Canada and in 1991 he founded the Canadian Bandurist Capella in Toronto from his private bandura students. He has been awarded the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine by Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma in October, 1999. In August 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit by Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko and the Medal of 'Cossack Glory' from the Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks for his services to Ukrainian musical culture.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on 16 August 2013 in Sydney, New South Wales.
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