Stefania Turkewich

Later in life, she recalled her childhood love of music:[3] At the centre of everything was my mother, who played a wonderful piano.

We played thus: father on the bass …, my mother on the piano, (Льоньо) Lyonyo on cello, me on the harmonium, (Марійка і Зенко) Marika and Zenko … on violins.

[6] In 1921, Turkewich studied with the music historian Guido Adler at the University of Vienna and the Austrian composer Joseph Marx at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna,[4] from which she graduated in 1923 with a teaching diploma.

[6] In 1925 she married the Ukrainian graphic artist Robert Lisovskyi and travelled with him to Berlin,[7] where she lived from 1927 to 1930, and studied with the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schreker.

In 1934, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic of Ukrainian folklore in Russian operas.

[4] She became the first woman from Galicia (which was then part of Poland) to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

After the closure of the Conservatory during the Nazi occupation, she continued teaching at the State Musical School.

[6] Fleeing from the Soviets, in 1946 she moved to southern Austria, and from there to Italy, where her second husband, Nartsiz Lukyanovich, was a physician under the British command.

Turkewich's opera Oksana's Heart was performed in Winnipeg (Canada) in 1970 in the Centennial Concert Hall, under the artistic direction of her sister Irena Turkevycz-Martynec.

[11] Centennial Concert Hall – Sunday at 7:30 p.m.: Ukrainian Children’s Theatre presents Heart of Oksana, an opera by Stefania Turkevich-Lukianovich, which is the story of a girl meeting mythological figures in an enchanted forest as she searches for her lost brothers.

Суіта для подвійного струнного оркестру – Suite for Double String Orchestra 8.

Мавка – Mavka – (unfinished) based on Lesia Ukrainka’s Forest Song Children’s operas 15.

«Цар Ох» або Серце Оксани – Tsar Okh or Heart of Oksana – 1960 16.

Тріо для скрипки, альта і віолончела 1960 – 1970 – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello 26.

Квінтет для двох скрипок, альта, віолончела фортепіано 1960 – 1970 – Piano Quintet 27.

Тріо для флейти, кларнету, фагота 1972 – Wind Trio Piano works 28.

Фантазія: Суїта фортепянна на Українські теми – Fantasia: Suite for Piano on Ukrainian Themes 1940 30.