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Roman TurovskiyAmerican artist and composer-lutenist.
Date of Birth: 16.05.1961
Country:  USA |
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Biography of Roman Turovsky
Roman Mikhailovich Turovsky-Savchuk was born on May 16, 1961, in Kiev, Ukraine. He is an American artist and composer-lutenist. Turovsky has been living in New York, USA, since 1979. He began his involvement in the visual arts at an early age under the guidance of his father, artist Mikhail Saulovich Turovsky. He continued his artistic education at the Kiev Art Institute. After immigrating to the United States, he graduated from Parsons School of Design while also studying music composition and playing the baroque lute under Patrick O'Brien, Leonid Grabovsky, Pierre Luigi Chima, and Davide Zannoni.
In the early 1990s, Turovsky produced his first significant musical compositions and further developed his fruitful artistic career as a figurative painter. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions. His first solo exhibition took place in New York in June 2006.
The majority of Turovsky's musical compositions are written in the traditional style of the baroque lute. Among his numerous vocal and instrumental works, he has composed over 300 arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for the baroque and renaissance lute. Since 1996, he has been signing his musical compositions with the surname "Sautscheck," which is a German transliteration of the second part of his own surname (Savchuk). Turovsky's music, published and performed under this alias by lutenists Luca Pianca, Robert MacKillop, Stefan Lundgren, and Simon Paulus, has gained wide recognition while also causing irritation among some musicologists, who accused the composer of deliberate mystification. He also uses the alias "Ioannes Leopolita".
As a lutenist, Turovsky performs as part of the "New York Bandura Ensemble" led by Julian Kytasty. He is one of the founders of "Vox Saeculorum" and "Delian Society," two international creative associations dedicated to preserving the tradition of tonal music.
