Luba Zuk

Department of Performance (Schulich School of Music)

Biography

Luba Zuk, L.Mus.(McG.), Graduate, Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec; Associate Professor

Luba Zuk, Ukrainian-born Canadian pianist and educator, is a graduate of McGill University and the Conservatoire de Musique de la Province de Québec in Montreal. She also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at the University of Alberta Banff School of Fine Arts. At the present time she is an Associate Professor (part-time) in the Schulich School of Music of McGill University and at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. Professor Zuk is also active as a lecturer and piano-clinician, as curriculum consultant for state music academies in Ukraine, and as adjudicator at Canadian and international music festivals and competitions.

Luba Zuk has appeared in solo recitals, as a member of the Luba and Ireneus Zuk piano duo, and with chamber ensembles. She presented solo concert tours in major cities in Canada and the USA, and her work with the Zuk Piano duo, which actively promotes Canadian and Ukrainian music and has recorded for the RCI-ACM, has taken her throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Her solo and ensemble performances are broadcast regularly on CBC Radio, Radio-Canada International and Ukrainian Radio and Television, and she has also performed on Austrian and Polish Radio. Luba Zuk has a special interest in music by Ukrainian composers and has given first performances of many of their solo and chamber works in North America. Her ongoing research focuses on piano works by composers of Ukrainian origin residing in Canada and the USA.

The government of Ukraine honored Luba Zuk with the award of a medal and the title "Merited Artist of Ukraine". The Ukrainian Canadian Congress awarded her the Shevchenko Medal for her promotion of Canadian and Ukrainian music.