35 years of composer and teaching activity was noted by Yury Mohyliuk, author of about 1000 musical works, member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine, teacher-methodologist, teacher of guitar at Art School No. 6 in Odessa. In 2020, a new collection of songs with his music "U kogo cht na ladoshkah" based on the poems of the poetess Inna Ishchuk was published with the support of the Consul General of Romania in Odessa.
- Yury Viktorovych, Gioacchino Rossini used to say: "Give me a laundry bill, and I'll put it to music." Is this common to all composers?
- For me, this statement is also appropriate. Outside of me and around me, music has always sounded since childhood. When my parents moved into their apartment on Yaroslavskogo Street, after the bed and the table, the first item that appeared was a record player and tape recorder, "Dnepr-2", I remember. And there was me, who then turned one. I often stayed nearby at the house of Misha's uncle, who worked on the radio all his life, and who had a large collection of records and tape recordings. He listened to songs by Leonid Utesov, Klavdia Shulzhenko, Alexander Vertynskyi, Petro Leshchenko. And I, as soon as the music starts, I can immediately continue it, thanks to the musical memory from a distant childhood.
The cadets of the sailor's crew marched past our windows every day to the orchestra. And this music is also stuck in my head forever. I am familiar with almost all marches. Later, I even played the trumpet in the orchestra. This is how my formation took place on the street. And the street in those distant, and as it is now customary to express, stagnant years, was truly worthy. Well, of course - who saw what and what they wanted to see. And the cinema also influenced. We had one of the first Vesna televisions in the yard, which my parents bought on loan. Neighbors came to us from all over the yard, and 15-20 people, crammed into a small apartment in the basement of the house, watched movies. In almost every film, the guitar sounded with a soulful singing voice.
In addition, we had a accordion, an accordion, and of course a guitar - the most available of the instruments. Parents tried to teach their children music. When I went to the first grade at school No. 39, a day later the teachers of the music school came to us to select children for the school named after Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky. I was asked, they say, what kind of music do you like? - I answered that I was marching, and I wanted to play the drum or the trumpet. I had absolute hearing and a developed sense of rhythm. And I was selected for the violin class. It was a boarding school. On the weekend, my mother took me, bathed me, fed me, and again took me to study. But about six months later, she took me away - she regretted that I was in a boarding school. And I returned to my school.
Another neighbor of ours was Lenya, who had a seven-string guitar, on which he played romances and folk music. And he played Spanish and foreign western melodies on the six-string, which he picked up by ear and showed me. I adopted the manner of the ego. At the age of 9, we got a new apartment for free and moved to Tairov. My music lessons are over.
I remained alone, but continued to sing. When he was preparing lessons, he sang, he came to school and sang. My mother made me read history and geography. I sang everything - I read and sang to the music. Any literary text could be set to music. Even the phone number can be recited. Everything I read, I recited. He learned school rules, like songs. During the lesson, I went to the blackboard to answer and, in order to remember what I had learned, hummed a little. For example: the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the legs ... for some reason. Everything learned at home was immediately remembered. I was given bad grades because I broke the lesson by singing. But I could not do otherwise. In a notebook, I copied songs that I liked.
Then I asked my parents to buy a guitar. Relatives gathered and gave money. They found a teacher. Vladimir Ivanovich Pyvovarov, the first teacher, taught the basics of playing the guitar and copying notes. A colossal desire and love for music drove me further. I changed about 10 teachers, taking the best from each one. My parents forced me to enter a machine tool technical school, even though I wanted to study music. I participated in amateur activities, in the club "Lira", in OMK, went to the youth cafe on Deribasovskaya Street, where I met many famous creative personalities, including Boris Burda. He offered to go to the author's song club at the Refrigeration Institute. I myself was not fond of my own poetry, but I took poems of poets and put music to them.
Once we performed at the Lyra club with Valery Rubakhoi, a Philharmonic artist and conservatory teacher. He introduced me as a music school teacher. This was not true. And I decided to make it true - I will enter a music school. I tried three times to enter the music school in Odessa, but was unsuccessful - in the end I graduated from the music school in Chisinau, Kherson State University, master's degree in "Composition", where they helped me to publish my collections on a professional level and find my place in the musical world.
- Do your students play your works with pleasure?
- When I started teaching at DMSh No. 11 in Odessa, I let students perform their works. He signed them with fictitious names: it was inconvenient to expose himself. And my notes began to spread. "Serenade" was even played at school during the entrance exam. I started writing plays because there was not enough repertoire for my students. At the end of the first year, I already had so many students that I couldn't fit according to the schedule. I found a second room. He organized his own, worked from morning until the last student, until late in the evening. My students entered music, theater institutions, conservatories, even the school at Gnesinka. Then I was taken by Vasyl Ivanovich Burenko, the director of DMSh No. 4, where I worked for almost three ponds. Now I am supported in my endless ideas by the director of art school No. 6, Viktor Vasilyevich Prokhorov, who is my teacher, with a capital letter, of music, since childhood. I teach guitar at school, I am going to lead a composition and improvisation class, I organize conferences, seminars, master classes: we unite innovative teachers.
- What is your teaching method?
- I listen to what modern children play and listen to, and naturally I lead them with my authority into my music, into my world, which is understandable and accessible to me. But it sometimes happens that I am also introduced to innovations when they are worthy of imitation. Otherwise, there will be no progress. And I, too, in this way, learn something new. We must constantly change the water in our creative aquarium. And I am glad when strong students provoke and ask to analyze a new repertoire. I am happy to study the ego, develop and move forward. Especially thanks to modern computer technologies and the Internet, which allows you to communicate with musicians from all over the world.
- You performed on big stages and were on the jury of all-Ukrainian music festivals. Why did you choose to develop a children's theme in your work?
- Well, not on such big stages, and not so often. After all, I am a teacher, not an artist. Yes, I performed in companies with famous artists, poets, singers. Participated in TV programs with Yuri Kuznetsov (they planned to create a program for children "Jazz Lykbez"). With Vladimir Ostrovsky - musically voiced lecture programs. In Kim Kanevsky's programs for about 5 years on Odessa GosTV... And I understood that it was necessary to popularize a children's song. And it is necessary to make music better for children than for adults. And to this there should be a calling. Therefore, I devoted this year to work on the collection of songs for children "Songs on the palms" based on the poems of the Odessa poetess Inna Ishchuk. Its publication was financially supported by the General Consul of the Republic of Romania in Odessa, Emil Rapcha. And in gratitude to him, the song "Mercyshore" is included in the book.
- What is the demand for children's songs in the market of musical literature?
- They call me from different parts of Ukraine and ask for sheet music. My works are performed. And I hope that this collection will also be in demand.
- How do you get inspired to create music?
- It sounds in me. It splashes out. It is necessary to catch these fluids and manage to record them. I would write from morning to evening if there was such an opportunity... and someone would need it, and it would somehow be appreciated... But this is an unanswered question.
- What do you wish for beginning musicians?
- Children should play, develop and do it for themselves, not for parents who force them. But professionally, not at the amateur level. I don't like the saying "a shoemaker without boots". A shoemaker should have cool boots, a guitarist with a cool instrument, a writer with cool brains. The driver must have a cool, repaired car, even if it is not "cool", but in which it is comfortable and safe. That is, I am for professionalism in everything, and especially in music, since I am a musician!
Prepared by Inna Ishchuk
