Yevheniia Maksymivna Barvinska or Yevheniya Barvinsʼka (nee Liubovych, 1854–1913), was a Ukrainian pianist, choral conductor and singer (soprano), who promoted the music of Ukrainian composers.

Biography

Yevheniia Liubovych was born on 20 December 1854 in Lemburg, Austrian Galicia (today Lviv, Ukraine) to Maksymiliian Liubovych and Olena Studynska.

She graduated from the Teachers' Institute, Lemburg, in 1874, and studied piano privately with Karol Mikuli, the director of the Lemberg Conservatory. ^[1] Her next music teacher, Fr. Amvrosii, was the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Amvrosii Krushelnytskyi, whose daughter, Solomiya Krushelnytska, was a friend and who gained international fame as a soprano. With Fr. Amvrosii, Yevheniia organized and conducted the men's and women's choirs in Ternopil (1882–1886). ^[2]

Yevheniia married the educator and politician Oleksander Barvinsky (1847–1926) and they raised six children, Olha Bachynska (1874–1955), Bohdan Barvinskyi (1880–1958), Roman (1881–1947), Olena Savchuk (1883–1962), Vasyl Barvinsky (1888–1963) and  Oleksander Barvinskyi (1889–1957). ^[3] Vasyl, whose first music teacher was Yevheniia, went on to become an accomplished composer later in life. ^{[1] [4]}

In 1891, Yevheniia Barvinska became the conductor of the Lemburg choir of the Boyan Society through which she continued to promote the work of Ukrainian composers.

Barvinska died on 20 December 1913 in Lemburg and was buried there in the family tomb in Lychakiv Cemetery, field number three. ^[5]

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