Yaroslav Senyshyn

Yaroslav Senyshyn, also known as Slava, is a Canadian pianist, author, and professor of philosophy, aesthetics of music, and moral education at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education.

Education
Senyshyn was a student of Antonina Yaroshevich at the Kiev Conservatory and of Canadian pianist and composer Larysa Kuzmenko. He has also studied with Damjana Bratuz, Howard Munn, Clifford von Kuster, Katherine Wolpe, and Pierre Souverain.

Career
Senyshyn was a member of the SFUFA (Simon Fraser University Faculty Association) Safety Committee and sat from 2006-2009 as an executive member-at-large on the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

Senyshyn is a professor of music, philosophy of aesthetics, and moral education at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education. He has published in journals such as Philosophy of Music Education Review, the Journal of Educational Thought, Educational Leadership, and the Canadian Journal of Education. Senyshyn has given lecture-recitals and made publications that focus on the teacher-as-artist and the contribution that music makes to arts education.

Senyshyn is especially known for his Liszt performances. He performs and records standard repertoire along with contemporary works by composers including Larysa Kuzmenko, Donald Cochrane, and Reeves Miller.

Research
Senyshyn's focus is on interdisciplinary research in arts and moral education. His method of philosophical analysis draws mainly on an existential-phenomenological approach. His work includes a discursive analysis of students' performance anxiety that uses a theoretical exploration of social constructionism based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy. He has focused on specific topics related to creative performance, teaching and music aesthetics vis-à-vis co-authorship of musical texts, subjectivity, objectivity, and anxiety in the moral-aesthetic fabric of society.

Senyshyn is one of the co-investigators on the Research For Youth, Music and Education and MODAL Research Project, which researches youth engagement in musical activities, as well as artistic learning research.

Discography

 * Yaroslav Senyshyn: Rachmaninoff Preludes and Etudes - Tableaux (2012)
 * Yaroslav Senyshyn Live: Bach-Siloti Beethoven Liszt Miller Cochrane (2010)
 * Yaroslav Senyshyn Live Volume II: Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky Liszt (2010)
 * Yaroslav Senyshyn Live Volume III: The Kennedy Center: Beethoven Chopin Brahms Revutsky Schubert Smith (2010)
 * Yaroslav Senyshyn & Suzie O'Neill-Senyshyn: Live at Von Kuster Hall (Piano and Flute) (2009)



Performances
Senyshyn has performed in New York City's Carnegie Hall, Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and Massey Hall, and the Bolshoi Theatre at the Moscow Conservatory. Georgetown University Radio featured Senyshyn in a program about Canadian pianists, alongside Glenn Gould, Louis Lortie, Angela Hewitt, and Anton Kuerti. Senyshyn is an official Steinway Artist, and is signed with Albany Records.

Senyshyn was one of two pianists chosen to represent Canada at the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He has been a guest performer at various venues and institutions, including the University of Western Ontario. He regularly performs benefit concerts to raise awareness of social justice issues, including annual benefit concerts in Ottawa with his wife Susan O’Neill-Senyshyn in support of Discovery University's courses for low-income and homeless people.

Senyshyn has collaborated with sitar player Sanjoy Bandopadhyay.

Senyshyn released two of William David Smith's compositions, Image Op. 33 nos. 1 and 2 on the Albany Records in an album with his wife, Susan O'Neill-Senyshyn, a flautist. The album also featured the works of Franck and Ibert for piano and flute. Senyshyn also performs solo works by Liszt and Canadian composer Larysa Kuzmenko and Reeves Miller on the album.

Essay reviews


===Refereed journal articles ===
 * Senyshyn, Y. "Understanding and Working with Performance Anxiety in Education" (under review).
 * Senyshyn, Y. " 'Once Upon a time in the West': Opera and Soundscape" (in preparation).
 * Senyshyn, Y. "Respecting Students, Acquiring Humility and Ignoring the Curriculum" (under review).
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2004/2005) "The Hegelian Exhaustiblity of Art and Danto's End of Philosophy: Existential Thought and Polymetric Music in Di Cicco's Poetry" (Italian Canadiana (University of Toronto), 18, 37–48.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2005) "Rise of Authoritarianism in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise in British Universities". Journal of Educational Thought, 39(3), 229 – 244).
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2005) "Old Texts and Opera—Inciting Students to Read". Educational Leadership - "The Adolescent Learner", 62(7), 74–77.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. " 'Once Upon a time in the West': Opera and Soundscape" (in preparation).
 * Senyshyn, Y. "Respecting Students, Acquiring Humility and Ignoring the Curriculum" (under review).
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2004/2005) "The Hegelian Exhaustiblity of Art and Danto's End of Philosophy: Existential Thought and Polymetric Music in Di Cicco's Poetry" (Italian Canadiana (University of Toronto), 18, 37–48.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2005) "Rise of Authoritarianism in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise in British Universities". Journal of Educational Thought, 39(3), 229 – 244).
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2005) "Old Texts and Opera—Inciting Students to Read". Educational Leadership - "The Adolescent Learner", 62(7), 74–77.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Opera and Co-authorship: Implications for Ethics and Aesthetics". Musica-Realta, 55.

===Book chapters ===
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1998) "Subjectivity Revisited: Passion as Truth in Music Education". In Eunshik Choi and Myng-sook Auh (Eds.), "Searching for a New Paradigm of Music Education Research". Editors: The Korean Music Education Society, Hawoo Publishers.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2004) "Popular Music and the Intolerant Classroom" in Questioning the Music Education Paradigm Published by the Canadian Music Educators' Association as Volume 2 of The Biennial Series, Research to Practice, Lee R. Bartel, Series Editor. Toronto: Canadian Music Educators' Association. pp. 110–120.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2007) "Philosophy and Music in the Art of a Poet" in The Last Effort of Dreams by Francesco Loriggio, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press. ISBN 1-55458-019-6. ISBN 978-1-55458-019-4.
 * O’Neill, S. and Senyshyn, Y. (2011). Philosophical and Psychological Learning Theories: How They Shape Our Understanding of Musical Learning In Colwell, R. and Webster, P. MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning. New York: Oxford University Press.
 * O’Neill, S. and Senyshyn, Y. (2011). Philosophical and Psychological Learning Theories: How They Shape Our Understanding of Musical Learning In Colwell, R. and Webster, P. MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning. New York: Oxford University Press.

Books

 * Senyshyn, Y. (2010) The Artist in Crisis: Kierkegaard's Philosophy of the Aesthetic Stage of Existence and Live Musical Performance. Vancouver, BC: Platon Promotions Publishing. ISBN 978-0-557-52344-3 and 9780557560936
 * Senyshyn, Y. (in preparation) Upside Down and Inside Out: a Fresh Look at Teachers and Teaching in Education
 * Senyshyn, Y. (in preparation) A Tractatus of Music
 * Senyshyn, Y. (in preparation) Essential Issues in Music Performance

===Refereed conference proceedings ===
 * O'Neill, S., Senyshyn Y. (2012) "On Meaning Making and Measurement of Student Music Engagement by ISME Research Commission 2012, July 8–13 Thessaloniki, Greece, The International Society for the Study of Music Education: Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (in press).
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2005) "Anxiety and Memory in Live Musical Performance" published in the Proceedings of the APSCOM 2 (The Second International Conference of Asia Pacific Society for The Cognitive Science of Music) held in Seoul, Korea from August 4 – 6, 2005, pages 190–194, ISBN 89-5708-090-2.
 * Senyshyn, Y. (2002) "The Philosophy and Psychology of Performance Anxiety and its Subjective, Relational, and Discursive Potentiality" Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, 2002, 117–120. C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert, J. Renwick (Eds.). Adelaide: Causal Productions. ISBN 1-876346-39-6
 * Senyshyn, Y. (1999) "Wittgenstein, Music and Colour: Implications of Scientism and Inwardness". Toward Scientific Literacy: The History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching" Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, Canada, June 21–24, 1997. Edited by Linda Lentz and Ian Winchester. Faculty of Education, University of Calgary Publications, 671-681 (CD of Conference Proceedings: 1999).