Bohdan Lukaniuk

Bohdan LUKANIUK (b. April 12, 1947, Kolomyia, Ivan-Frankivsk region) is an ethnomusicologist, an educational organizer, and a teacher. He earned his doctorate in art history in 1980, became a lecturer in 1983, and a professor in 1997. He has been a Merited Culture Worker of Ukraine since 1994.

Lukaniuk has diplomas from: the Kolomyia Music School in 1961; the violin class of the Drohobych Music College in 1966; Stefania Pavlyshyn’s class in the Department of History and Theory at Mykola the Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory in 1972; a aspirant’s from the research department of the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography (today the Russian Institute of the History of Art) in 1975; doctorate with the dissertation “Folk Song Themes in Mykola Leontovych’s Creative Style” from the same institution in 1980.

In 1976, he became a senior lecturer in the Department of Music Theory at the Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory, and a docent in 1983. He was the founder and first chair of the Department of the History of Ukrainian Music and Folklore (1990–1991). He was also founder and chair of the Department of Musical Folklore (1991–2017), and a professor in this department (1997); and a leading researcher with the Problematic Research Laboratory of Music Ethnology in the same department (1997–2006). He was simultaneously a professor in the Department of Musical Folklore at the Rivne Institute of Culture (1997–2006). He developed a general concept of teaching musical folklore in the system “musichool—a music secondary school and higher music school.” He has written numerous curricula and teaching aids in musical folklore. His pedagogical class graduated thirty-three students and three doctoral candidates who defended dissertations in ethnomusicology.

He is the author or editor of over 150 articles on ethnomusicology and musicology. He has participated in Ukrainian and international conferences. He organized and led nine Conferences of Scholars of the Folk Music of Red Ruthenian (Galicia-Volhynia) and Adjacent Lands since 1990. Starting in 2006, he was the founder and editor-in-chief of the periodical Etnomuzyka.
His research and creative interests include: the theory and history of ethnomusicology, the analysis, typology, and genesis of folk music, ethnomusic source studies, teaching ethnomusicology, music theory, and the work of Mykola Leontovych.

(adapted from the LNMA website: https://lnma.edu.ua/kafedry/kafedra-muzychnoji-folklorystyky-ta-pndlme/pratsivnyky)