Nina Herasymova-Persydska

Nina Oleksandrivna Herasymova-Persydska (; 23 December 1927 - 8 December 2020) was a Ukrainian musicologist, Doctor of Art Studies, and Honored Artist of Ukraine (1997). She was the author of more than 140 works, including monographs on the history and theory of part song in Ukraine and Russia.

Early life and education In 1951, Herasymova-Persydska graduated from the historical-theoretical faculty, in 1952 - from the piano faculty (Arnold Yankelevich 's class), and in 1954 - from the graduate school of the Kyiv Conservatory. In 1955, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic Folksong Foundations of Ukrainian Soviet Symphonism.

Career Since 1951, Herasymova-Persydska has taught at the Kyiv Conservatory. In 1979, she became a professor. In 1978, Herasymova-Persydska defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic Part song concert in Ukraine in the second half of the 17th - the first half of the 18th century and its place in the culture of the era.

In 2000, on the initiative of Herasymova-Persydska, the Department of Classical Music was organized at the National Academy of Sciences. She was a Liaison Coordinator for the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM).

Scientific and pedagogical activity The main topics addressed by Herasymova-Persydska are music of the Baroque era, history and theory of the part song form, music and time, and the manifestation of non-classical principles in European music from Ars nova to the present day. She also researched the issues of space and time in music. She took an active part in the work of international organizations, gave lectures, and presented reports at international scientific forums, and symposiums in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the USA, and Switzerland.

Herasymova-Persydska was the author and organizer of the following projects: the international festival "Musical Dialogues: Ukraine and the Baroque World" (1994), the international conference "Orthodox Monody" (1998), the creative workshop of young researchers "Time - Space - Music" (2000), annual conferences under the common name "Sound and Sign" (since 2005), the international project "Schola cantorum Basiliensis visiting the National Music Academy of Ukraine" (Switzerland - Ukraine, 2000-2003) and others. She developed a concept of the first department of early music in Ukraine, which was opened in 2000 at the National Academy of Music. Grand Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2002) Member of the National All-Ukrainian Music Union (1993) Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2006)