Roman Mykhailovych Turovsky-Savchuk was born on May 16,1961 and is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, born in Ukraine.
12 Facts About Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk studied art from an early age under his father, the painter Mikhail Turovsky and at the Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk began to be interested in music in his teens.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk composed over 1100 instrumental and vocal works influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and the baroque.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk collaborated with Paulo Galvao and Hans Kockelmans in a series of experimental works which they jointly composed.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk composed over 40 tombeaux dedicated to various cultural figures.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Turovsky was a recipient of the 2008 NYSCA grant for the purpose of study of kobzar art with Julian Kytasty.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a founding member of Vox Saeculorum and The Delian Society, two international groups devoted to the preservation and perpetuation of tonal music.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk was described as composer-extraordinaire by the British author Suhayl Saadi.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk represented the works as newly discovered manuscripts by supposed 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century composers from several generations of the same family.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is currently published by the Lundgren Edition in Sweden under his real name.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk undertook research into the history of the torban, a Ukrainian musical instrument of the lute family, and wrote the chapter on it for the 2011 edition of "Die Laute in Europa".