Mykhailo Myshanych

Mykhailo Myshanych (b. November 20, 1941, village of Barvinok, Uzhhorod district, Transcarpathia) is a teacher, ethnomusicologist, and, a docent. He went to elementary school in the Transcarpathian villages of Pidhorb and Dravtsi. He graduated from the Uzhhorod State Music College in 1959 and the folk instrument department of Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory (today LNMA) in 1964. After serving his two years in the army, Myshanych went to work as an instructor at the Far Eastern State Institute of Arts in Vladivostok, Russia, returning to Lviv in fall 1968. From 1968 to 2001 he taught at the F. Kolessa Lviv State Musical-Pedagogical College, in 1989 also taking a position at the Problematic Research Laboratory of Music Ethnology at LNMA. Since January 1997, he has also been a docent in the department of musical folklore at LNMA.

Over many years working as a collector and transcriber of ethnographic music, Myshanych has about 4500 folk-song notations (over 6000 melostrophes). He has written several comprehensive manuscript collections of folk songs from various regions of Ukraine.

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