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B.Sc. (Mathematics, McGill), L.Mus. (McGill), B.Mus.(McGill), M.S. (Piano-The Juilliard School)), DMA (Peabody-Johns Hopkins), ARCM (Hon.) Performance (RCM, London), ARCM (Pedagogy) (RCM, London)
Ukrainian-born Canadian pianist, Ireneus Zuk, has appeared in numerous public, radio and television recitals, with chamber music groups, and as soloist with various orchestras. His concerts have taken him throughout Canada, the USA, Europe and the Far East.
Ireneus Zuk is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec and McGill University in Montreal (class of Lubka Kolessa), the Royal College of Music in London (class of Kendall Taylor), and the Juilliard School in New York (class of Sascha Gorodnitzki). He received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, where he studied with Leon Fleisher.
Winner of many prizes and scholarships, including awards from the Canada Council and Quebec Government, he also held teaching fellowships at the Juilliard School and Peabody Conservatory. Now he combines his teaching with an active concert career. At the present time, he is Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University in Kingston, where he served as Director of the School of Music from 1997-2003 and Associate Director of the Dan School from 2015-2017..
He performed regularly in a piano duo with his sister, Luba Zuk. Since 1982, the duo made frequent tours, particularly in Europe, where they played concerts in major centers. They were also frequent visitors in Ukraine where they appeared in major cities and at eight international music festivals. The duo also completed a very successful tour in China.
Many compositions by Canadian composers have been premiered by the duo. They also commissioned a significant number of works, some under awards from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council, and their recordings have been included in the RCI Anthology of Canadian Music.
In Kyiv, Ukraine, Ireneus Zuk served three times as jury member of the Horowitz Competition for Young Pianists as well as Chair of the State Examination Commission (of the Ministry of Culture) at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He has been a juror of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition for the performance of Contemporary Music in Canada, of the Klasinc Competition in Slovenia, Les Rencontres des Jeunes in Belgium, the 1000 Islands International in the USA and no less than ten times on the jury of the IBLA Grand Prize International Piano Competition in Italy.
The government of Ukraine honored Ireneus Zuk with the award of a medal and the title "Merited Artist of Ukraine". The Ukrainian Canadian Congress awarded him the Shevchenko medal in recognition of his promotion of Canadian and Ukrainian-Canadian music.