Oleh Krysa

Oleg/Oleh Krysa (

Born in Uchanie, now Gmina Uchanie in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, into a family of Ukrainian aristocrats. In 1945, as a result of Operation Vistula, his family found itself in Lviv, where he grew up and spent his school years.

Although none of the family had any professional music background, his mother, who was often heard singing, wanted young Oleh to play violin, although his father preferred that he learned to play piano. Thus, at the age of six, Oleh started learning to play the violin. His first teacher was Konstantin Mikhailov, who himself was a pupil of Sergey Korguyev (known in the West as Serge P. Korgueff, a pupil and assistant of Leopold Auer). After graduating from the Lviv Specialized Music School in 1960, Oleh Krysa entered the Moscow Conservatory. From 1960 to 1967 he studied there under David Oistrakh, who said of him: "Oleh has brilliant natural gifts, unusual musicality, vivid artistry, and great charm."

Career

Performing

After graduating from the

• 1969—1973 — first Chairman of Violin Department at
  Kiev Conservatory
• since 1971 — professor at
  Kiev Conservatory
• since 1973 — professor at Gnessin State Musical College, Moscow
• 1974 — professor at Moscow Conservatory
• since 1989 — professor at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, United States

Oleh Krysa regularly holds master classes at the following locations:

• Canada: Toronto, Montreal
• China: Shenyang
• Germany: Hanover, Freiburg, Hitzacker, Weimar
• Japan: Tokyo, Hamamatsu
• Korea: Seoul
• Poland: Warsaw, Łańcut
• U.S.A.: New York City, Boston, Oberlin, Philadelphia

Personal life

Family

• Wife: Tatiana Tchekina — pianist (1944-2013)
• Children: Peter — violinist; Taras — violinist and conductor; Andrej Madatov - violinist
• Siblings:
  Kyiv Academy of Music; Roman Krysa — electronics engineer, graduate of Lviv Polytechnic

• Schnittke: Works for Violin and Cello (BIS, 2004)
• Schnittke: Violin Sonatas Nos.3 & 4. (BIS, 2004)
• Prelude in Memoriam Shostakovich (BIS, 2004)
• Ravel/Martinu/Honegger/Schulhoff (BIS, 1998)
• Bloch: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra/Poems Of The Sea/Suite Symphonique (BIS, 1995)
• The Leontovych String Quartet • Shostakovitch/Tchajkovsky (Greystone Records, ASIN: B000FEU70Y)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Complete Violin Sonatas, Triton (DML Classics), 1999

  Collaboration with Mykola Suk

References

• Oleh Krysa. — in: Samuel Applebaum, Mark Zilberquit. «The Way They Play». Book 14. — Neptune, N.J.: Paganiniana Publications, 1986, p. 115—171.
  ISBN 0-86622-010-0

• Official web-site
• Eastman Music School web-site