Early music professor is killed in Ukraine

Julia Gorodetskaya reports:

Dr Ivan Kuzminskyi, Associate Professor at the Department of Early Music of Ukraine’s National Academy of Music was killed in action on May 17 near Luhansk. He was 39, and from Berdichev.

The International Society for Orthodox Church Music writes: It is with great sadness that we inform the ISOCM community of the passing of Ivan Kuzminskyi, musicologist and scholar of early modern church music in Ukraine.

Dmytro Kokoshynskyy writes: It is hard to believe… Ivan Kuzminskyi is gone now in the battles for Eastern Ukraine… He was an incredible person, a truly fantastic musicologist, one of the best researchers of early music in Ukraine. He was indeed a hero, defender of our country. It was an honor to know him and to work with him a little bit back then before the full-scale war.