Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a painter and lutenist-composer. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961, and emigrated to New York City in 1979. He studied art from an early age under Mikhail Turovsky, his father (a prominent artist activein France and the U.S.A.). He continued his art studies in New York at Parsons School of Design, having also concurrent studies in Historical Performance (Baroque Lute) and Composition, under Patrick O'Brien, Pier Luigi Cimma, Leonid Hrabovsky and Davide Zannoni.

He began composing seriously in the early 1990s, simultaneously embarking on a career of a prolific figurative/representational artist-painter, and participated in many exhibitions. His first one-man show was held in June 2006 in New York. Eight of his painings are in the permanent collection of the International Marian Institute at the University of Dayton.

As a composer he largely limited himself to the instrumental idiom of the Baroque lute, eventually producing numerous instrumental and vocal compositions, some of which were premiered by Luca Pianca at several international festivals (Salamanca, Lisbon, Schwetzingen, Vilnius, Vicenza [http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=989494834&day=989618400] , Urbino [http://www.fenice.org/musicult/notizieclassica/12.htm] , Metz and Paris), and Simon Paulus at Wolfenbüttel. He also collaborated with Paulo Galvão and Hans Kockelmans in a series of experimental works composed jointly. His works have been recorded by Robert MacKillop, and Christopher Wilke on lute, as well as Angelo Barricelli on guitar.

As a performer he appeared as a lute soloist and continuo player in the Early Music line-up of Julian Kytasty's "New York Bandura Ensemble".

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a founding member of Vox Saeculorum and The Delian Society, two international groups devoted to preservation and perpetuation of tonal music.

Allonyms

Since 1996 he has signed his musical works as "Sautscheck", a German transliteration of the second part of his surname, with various first names such as Joachim Peter, Johann Joachim, and Konradin Aemilius. His musical works achieved wide circulation under this allonym. This also caused irritation for a few musicologists who perceived his works as a malicious hoax because of their ostensibly baroque style [ [http://www.serenestudios.co.uk/articles/musical_crimes Serene Studios » Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics » Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics ] ] , and led to a coinage of a new German word, "Sautscheckerei", which denotes a musical or literary hoax.

"Cantiones sarmaticae et ruthenicae", a collection of 200 Ukrainian folk melodies in Renaissance Lute settings/intabulations by Turovsky, was published under the allonym "Ioannes Leopolita".

Cinema and Television

Turovsky participated (as a scenic artist) in the production of Jim Jarmusch's film "Ghost Dog" [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878016/ Roman Turovsky ] ] .

Literary Activities

Turovsky's poetry translations (from Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and other languages) have appeared in the literary almanach "The Germ" [ [http://germspot.blogspot.com/2005/04/germ-67.html The Germ: Germ #6/7 ] ] , and various web publications.

ee also

Turovsky is a brother of the poet Genya Turovskaya, as well as a brother-in-law of the sculptor and stage designer George Tsypin.

References

*Early Music America, 2007 (summer issue), p.43
* [http://polyhymnion.org/swv/intervista.html Complete EAM interview]
* [http://www.deliansociety.org/r_turovsky_sautscheck.html Delian Society page]
* [http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//meditations/lent5.html University of Dayton page]

External links

* [http://polyhymnion.org/swv Polyhymnion]
* [http://turovsky.org Turovsky]
* [http://voxsaeculorum.org Vox Saeculorum]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/scharffeneck Scharffeneck collection of Contemporary Early Music]
* [http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Turovsky-Savchuk%2C_Roman at IMSLP]