Position: Professor of the Special Piano Department
Academic title: Professor (2015)
Honorary title: Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus (1992)
Education: Belarusian State Conservatory named after A.V.Lunacharsky (1971, class of I.A.Tsvetaeva); probation assistantship at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I.Tchaikovsky (1973) under the guidance of Ya.I.Milstein
Courses taught: Special instrument (piano), Piano ensemble
Born on May 15, 1948 in Grodno (BSSR).
Since 1978, he has been a teacher at the Belarusian State Conservatory named after A.V.Lunacharsky. Head of the Piano Accompanist Mastery Department (1978-83). Since 1983 – Senior Teacher, Associate Professor (since 1985), Professor (since 1997) of the Special Piano Department.
Member of the Presidium and Board of the Belarusian Union of Musicians, Board of the Union of Theater Workers, Repertory Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (1989-2017), Commission on State Prizes of the Republic of Belarus (1985-2017), Member of the Expert Council on Prizes of the Union State in the field of literature and art (2006-2017).
Artistic Director of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society (since 1983). Diploma winner of the Republican (1968) and Inter-Republican (1969) competitions. Diploma for Accompanist Mastery at the S.Rose Competition in the USA (1997). He conducts active concert activity as a soloist, ensemble player and piano accompanist with famous instrumentalists, opera and chamber singers in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, USA. Participates in music festivals, forums, Days of Belarusian culture in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, France, Poland, Germany.
Chairman and member of the jury of International and Republican competitions of performers. Conducts master classes in Belarus and abroad.
Among his students (concert pianists, teachers and piano accompanists, laureates of International and national piano competitions):
- Laureate of International competitions A.Ponochevny;
- Laureate of International competitions A.Sikorsky;
- Teacher at the State Education Institution “Republican Gymnasium-College under the Belarusian State Academy of Music”, Piano Accompanist of the Education Institution “Minsk State Music College named after M.I.Glinka”, Laureate of International competitions A.Polyakov;
- Teacher of the Cyclic Commission “Special Piano” of the State Education Institution “Republican Gymnasium-College under the Belarusian State Academy of Music”, soloist of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society, Laureate of International competitions Yu.Arkhangelskaya;
- Soloist at the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society A.Shaplyko;
- Concertmaster at the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society E.Luzan.
Author of reports at Republican and International research and practice conferences on the history, theory and methodology of piano art.
He was awarded with the Francysk Skorina Medal (2008), the Medal for services to the culture of Poland (2015), the Diploma of the Supreme Council of the BSSR (1987), the Certificates of Honor of the Estonian SSR (1986), the Ministry of Culture of the USSR of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Cultural Workers (1983), the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus (1997, 1998).
Publications:
- Piano Accompanist Mastery Department // Belarusian State Conservatory of the Order of Friendship of Peoples (Essays on History). Minsk, 1984;
- Sonata genre in the works by A.V.Bogatyrev // Problems of national musical cultures at the turn of the third millennium: Proceedings of the International Research Conference “Civilization and Culture: the Problem of the Relevance of the National Factor at the Turn of the Third Millennium (musical aspect)” Minsk October 29-30, 1998. Minsk, 1999;
- To the question of some modern trends in the development of the Belarusian musical and performing arts // Musical art at the turn of the century: Proceedings of the International Research Conference “Musical Creativity and the 20th Century: Traditions, Innovations and Perspectives”. (Minsk, April 21, 2000). Minsk, 2000;
- The modern concept of the work of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society with children and the youth // Education and upbringing of gifted children and the youth: problems of psychology, pedagogy, methods: Materials of the International Research Conference “Musical upbringing and education” January 9-12, 2001 / Belarusian State Institutefor Advanced Trainingand Retraining in the field of Personnel. – Minsk, 2001;
- On the features of the composition and performance interpretation of the romantic instrumental cycle (“Serious Variations” op. 54 by F.Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and “Fantastic Pieces” op. 12 by R.Schumann): lectures for students of the Professional Development and Staff Retraining Faculty of the Belarusian State Academy of Music. Minsk, 2014.
Literature about the teacher:
- Gorbushina, I.L. Yuri Nikolaevich Gildyuk – pianist, teacher, musical figure // News of the Belarusian Academy of Music. No. 21. Minsk, 2012;
- Mdivani, T. Panorama of the musical art of the second half of the twentieth century: symphonic, folk-orchestral, chamber-instrumental music, opera and spiritual works // Belarusians. T. 11. Music / T.B. Varfalameeva [and others]; editorial board: M.F.Pilipenko [and others]; science editor A.I.Lakotka; National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Arts, Ethnagraphy and Folklore named after K.Krapiva. Minsk: Belarusian science, 2008;
- Savitskaya, O.P. Piano and organ concert-performing art // Belarusian concert-performing art: the last third of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st century / T.G.Mdivani [and others]; Minsk: Belarusian science, 2012.
He has stock records on the Belarusian radio.