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Roman Mykhailovych Turovsky-Savchuk (born May 16, 1961) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a
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-composer,Suhayl Saadi Uncensored « Kitaab
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born in Ukraine. His musical works were published under various
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s, including Johann Joachim Sautscheck.


Biography

Turovsky was born in
Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
,
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in 1961, when it was part of the
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. He studied art from an early age under his father, the painter
Mikhail Turovsky Mikhail Turovsky (, Mykhaylo Turovsky; born in 1933 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-American artist-Painting, painter, and writer-aphorist, resident in New York City since 1979. Biography Early life and educatio ...
and at the Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv. He also began to be interested in music in his teens. The family emigrated to
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in 1979. They first lived in the
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. Turovsky continued his art studies in New York at the
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, studying concurrently Historical Performance (Baroque
Lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...
) and Composition, under Patrick O'Brien, Pier Luigi Cimma,
Leonid Hrabovsky Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky (also Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, ; , ''Leonid Alexandrovitch Grabovsky'') (born 28 January 1935) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer, now living in the United States.Роман Юсипей"Останній з а ...
and Davide Zannoni.


Art

Turovsky began composing in the early 1990s, simultaneously embarking on a career as a prolific artist-painter. He participated in many exhibitions. His first one-man show was held in June 2006 in New York, and the second in February 2013. Eight of his paintings are in the permanent collection of the
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at the
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.


Cinema and television

Turovsky worked as a
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in the production of
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's film "
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",
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's "
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",
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's '' Blackstar'' as well as in
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's " Double Whammy", Law & Order: Organized Crime and other films. He is a member of
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.


Music

As a composer, Turovsky concentrated on the instrumental idiom of the
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lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...
and the
torban The torban (, also ''teorban'' or ''Ukrainian theorbo'') is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. The Тorban differs from the more common European bass lute known as the theo ...
, as well as
viola da gamba The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...
and
carillon A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...
. He composed over 1100 instrumental and vocal works influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and the baroque. Many of these were premiered by
Luca Pianca Luca Pianca (born 1958) is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico., a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist-compos ...
at several international festivals (
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, Lisbon,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and Paris),
Roland Ferrandi Roland Ferrandi (; also Orlandu Ferrandi; born in 1958) is a Corsican composer- ceterist, lutenist A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or openin ...
in Corte, Simon Paulus at
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and Jindřich Macek in
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, Kraty,
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and
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. He also collaborated with
Paulo Galvão Paulo Galvão (born 1967 in Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) is a composer, lutenist, theorbist and guitarist. According to Dan Hill, Galvão has published "Musical hoax, musical forgeries" for baroque guitar under the name "Antonio da Costa". Galvão ...
and Hans Kockelmans in a series of experimental works which they jointly composed. His works have been performed/recorded by
Robert Barto Robert Barto (born 1950s in San Diego) is an American lutenist specializing in the music of the Baroque and Empfindsamkeit periods, in particular the ''oeuvres'' of Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Bernhard Joachim Hagen. Biography He is a graduate o ...
,
Robert MacKillop Rob MacKillop (born 1959) is a Scottish composer and multi-instrumentalist, specializing in lute, theorbo, vihuela, banjo, ukulele and both classical and Russian guitar. He is an important performer of Early Music in Scotland. He is also a phot ...
,
Oleg Timofeyev Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev (, Oleg Vital'evič Timofeev; born January 12, 1963, in Moscow), is an American musicologist, specializing in lute and Russian guitar. He is best known for his pioneering work in the discovery, promotion, interpretatio ...
,
Massimo Marchese Massimo Marchese (born in Savona, Italy) is an Italian musician, lutenist, theorbist and recording artist. Biography Born in Savona in the Italian region of Liguria, Marchese was a student of Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music in Londo ...
, John Schneiderman, Thomas Schall, Trond Bengtson,
Terrell Stone Terrell Stone is an American lutenist and recording artist. He is a longtime resident of Italy, where he holds the position of a Professor of lute. He began his musical studies in the United States, dedicating himself to the study of the lute since ...
,
Christopher Wilke Christopher Wilke (born 1973) is an American composer, lutenist, guitarist, recording artist, and teacher. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Wilke studied guitar and composition at the College of Mount St. Joseph, and took his master's degree in ...
and Bernhard Hofstötter on lute, Angelo Barricelli and Fernando Lewis de Mattos on guitar, Ernst Stolz on
viola da gamba The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...
, as well as Hans Kockelmans and
Olesya Rostovskaya Olesya Rostovskaya (; born 6 January 1975) is a Russian composer, theremin player, carillonneur, organist, and Russian Orthodox bell ringing, Russian bell ringer (zvonist). Discography * ''Soul of a Bell. Russian Music on ...
on
carillon A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...
. In 2011 and 2013 Turovsky was profiled in two 1 hour-long programs on the Dutch Classical radio-station
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. He also composed over 40
tombeau A tombeau (plural tombeaux) is a musical composition (earlier, in the early 16th century, a poem) commemorating the death of a notable individual. The term derives from the French word for "tomb" or "tombstone". The vast majority of tombeaux date f ...
x dedicated to various cultural figures. These were described by Pablo del Pozo as being of "unquestionable musical quality". As a performer, Turovsky-Savchuk appeared as a
lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...
soloist and continuo player in the
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line-up of
Julian Kytasty Julian Petrovych Kytasty is an American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flautist, and conductor of Ukrainian descent. He was born January 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, in a family of refugees. Biography His first studies were in the Ukr ...
's " New York Bandura Ensemble" and "Radio Banduristan". Roman Turovsky was a recipient of the 2008
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grant for the purpose of study of
kobzar A ''kobzar'' ( ; ) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed kobza or bandura. Tradition The professional kobzar tradition was established during the Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth cen ...
art with
Julian Kytasty Julian Petrovych Kytasty is an American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flautist, and conductor of Ukrainian descent. He was born January 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, in a family of refugees. Biography His first studies were in the Ukr ...
. Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a founding member of
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and The
Delian Society The Delian Society was an international community of composers, performers, academics, independent scholars, recording engineers, music publishers, and amateurs dedicated to revitalizing and promoting tonality in contemporary art music. The socie ...
, two international groups devoted to the preservation and perpetuation of
tonal music Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and / or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived ''relations'', ''stabilities'', ''attractions'', and ''directionality''. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or the root of a triad with t ...
. He was described as composer-extraordinaire by the British author
Suhayl Saadi Suhayl Saadi (born 1961, Beverley, Yorkshire) is a physician, author and dramatist based in Glasgow, Scotland. His varied literary output includes novels, short stories, anthologies of fiction, song lyrics, plays for stage and radio theatre, and ...
. Turovsky-Savchuk contributed to the soundtracks of the
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"
A Rising Fury ''A Rising Fury'' () is a 2022 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Ukrainian American director and producer Lesya Kalynska and Ukrainian filmmaker Ruslan Batytsky. It was produced by TJ Collins (USA) and Jonathan Borge Lie (Norway). A Rising ...
" (2022) and " She Paid The Ultimate Price" (2011), and in 2013 to the Marko Robert Stech's Georgy Narbut episode in the KontaktTV Toronto (
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(Canada)) series "Eyes on Culture" No.55.


Discography

* Stuart Walsh - "Impiae Stellae" (Polyhymnion CD005, USA 2025) * Alberto Crugnola - "Am I Dreaming" - (Novantica Records, Italy 2024) * Scott Saari - "Fantasma Pacis" (Polyhymnion CD004, USA 2023) * Volodymyr Voyt - "Pulchritudo In Tempore Belli" (Polyhymnion CD003, USA 2023) *
Massimo Marchese Massimo Marchese (born in Savona, Italy) is an Italian musician, lutenist, theorbist and recording artist. Biography Born in Savona in the Italian region of Liguria, Marchese was a student of Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music in Londo ...
- "Dialogues with Time" (daVinci Edition C00028, Japan 2017) *
Christopher Wilke Christopher Wilke (born 1973) is an American composer, lutenist, guitarist, recording artist, and teacher. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Wilke studied guitar and composition at the College of Mount St. Joseph, and took his master's degree in ...
- "De Temporum Fine Postludia II" (Polyhymnion CD002, USA 2019) *
Christopher Wilke Christopher Wilke (born 1973) is an American composer, lutenist, guitarist, recording artist, and teacher. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Wilke studied guitar and composition at the College of Mount St. Joseph, and took his master's degree in ...
- "De Temporum Fine Postludia" (Polyhymnion CD001, USA 2016) * Daniel Shoskes - "Weiss Undercover" (USA, 2016) * Daniel Shoskes - "Lautenschmaus" CD (USA, 2011) * Angelo Barricelli - "From Borderlands" (Lira Classica, Italy, 2008) * Thomas Schall - "Die Laute im Barock" LCCD 0202 (The Lute Corner, Switzerland, 2002)


Allonyms and pseudonyms

Since 1996 Turovsky has signed his musical works as ''Sautscheck'', a German
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of the second part of his surname as an
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. Turovsky used a variety of constructions, such as Johann Joachim and Konradin Aemilius, for first names attached to Sautscheck. He represented the works as newly discovered manuscripts by supposed 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century composers from several generations of the same family. Turovsky published ''Mikrokosmos'', a collection of nearly 800
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-style pieces based on Ukrainian folk melodies under the pseudonyms "Ioannes Leopolita" and "Jacobus Olevsiensis". His works for lute achieved wide circulation under the
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of Sautscheck and the pseudonyms "Ioannes Leopolita" and "Jacobus Olevsiensis". Musicologist Douglas Alton Smith perceived these works as malicious
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es and forgeries because of their ostensibly
baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
or earlier styles. The controversy in 2000 over what some considered an outright hoax led to coinage of a new German word, ''Sautscheckerei'', which denoted a musical or literary hoax. He is currently (as of 2023) published by the Lundgren Edition in Sweden under his real name.


Literary activities

Turovsky's poetry translations (from Russian, Ukrainian,
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and other languages) have appeared in the literary almanacs
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,
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, Circumference,''The Germ'', and various web publications. His translations of the early
futurist Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futures studies or futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities ...
works of
Mykola Bazhan Mykola Platonovych Bazhan (; – 23 November 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Distinguished Figure in Sc ...
are included in the 2020 edition of Bazhan's "Quiet Spiders Of The Hidden Soul". He also undertook research into the history of the
torban The torban (, also ''teorban'' or ''Ukrainian theorbo'') is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. The Тorban differs from the more common European bass lute known as the theo ...
, a Ukrainian
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of the
lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...
family, and wrote the chapter on it for the 2011 edition of "Die Laute in Europa"."Die Laute in Europa 2" A.Schlegel & J.Lüdtke


Notes


References


External links

*''Early Music America'', 2007 (summer issue), p. 43
Behind The Scenes: Roman Turovsky
D. Dominick Lombardi D. Dominick Lombardi (born 1954) is a visual artist, writer and art critic; the U.S. editor of ''dArt international'' magazine; as well as a curator. He was an art critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1998 to 2005. Biography D. Dominick Lombar ...
interview for Huffington Post
"Roman Turovsky"
EAM interview, Polyhymnion

Delian Society Website

''Marian Meditations'', University of Dayton
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