ANATOLIY NIKIFORUK'S CREATIVE ACTIVITY IN THE ASPECT OF THE THEORETICAL CONCEPT OF UNIVERSALISM OF THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the figure of the famous Ukrainian musician-teacher Anatoliy Nikiforuk. A representative of the cohort of accordion players of Khmelnytskyi region, a bearer of the traditions of the Lviv accordion school, he assimilated various regional trends, which were embodied in productive creative activity. The study of his professional achievements is important in the context of the study of musical loci of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to trace the stages of professional formation and facets of creative activity of A. Nikiforuk; to highlight important facts of the artist's creative life, in particular the influence of leading musicians on the formation of his professional skills and creative interests. Methodology is complex and constitutes a set of scientific approaches: biographical and chronological - for the study and reproduction of the facts of creative life; systematization and generalization - for the processing of information about the musician's activities; activity-structural - as an analytical toolkit of the theory of universalism of personality. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian musicology, the creative activity of A. Nikiforuk has become the object of scientific research. For the first time, the artist’s works and pedagogical achievements are outlined in terms of the activity-structural model of a universal creative personality (O. Komenda). Conclusions. The multifaceted creative activity of A. Nikiforuk represents the activity model of a universal creative personality, as it combines pedagogical, compositional, performing, methodological components, musical and public work in organizing and conducting competitive events. According to the concept of O. Komenda, «a universal creative personality is considered to be a creative personality that is characterized by a combination of at least three types of activity, among which leading and auxiliary ones are distinguished» (Komenda, 2020: 381). At different stages of formation, the priority of these components changed, the model underwent transformations due to the expansion of the spheres of creative activity, and accordingly, the dominance of the leading direction changed. During the period of study, this was a performing activity, today the general profile of the artist is pedagogical practice. This makes it possible to characterize the artist as a «universal teacher».