A passionate performer and dedicated teacher, Dr. Sofia Mycyk embraces a multi-faceted career in music. Dr. Sofia Mycyk has performed as soloist with orchestras in Canada, the United States and most recently with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra. She has been featured at the Landowska Harpsichord Society in Chicago, Thursday Musical series in Minneapolis, and in her home province the Lyell Gustin Recital Series, Ritornello Festival and Strata Festival of New Music. Performance highlights include the Lakes Area Music Festival, PianoFest in the Hamptons, as well as performing Colin McPhee’s Piano Concerto as winner of the University of Minnesota concerto competition in Ted Mann Concert Hall.

Ukrainian classical music is at the centre of Sofia’s current research which she endeavours to bring to a wider audience. She has presented on Ukrainian composers in the Fine Arts Research Lecture Series at the University of Saskatchewan and in conjunction with the concert “A Kolomiyka Fantasy” presented by the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra. Her album Hutsulian Watercolours, featuring solo piano music by Ukrainian composers, was recorded at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.

Collaborations with local arts organizations are nourishing and fulfilling pursuits for Sofia. In 2024 the Remai Modern presented the Sofia Mycyk Performance Series including a marathon performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations in March and a solo recital entitled Music of Picasso in May. During the pandemic the Saskatoon Opera presented a live-streamed recital “Ukrainian Art Song on a Starlit Night”, where she performed with soprano Katya Khartova. Sofia regularly joins local musicians each summer to perform new works at the Strata Festival of New Music. She also performs each winter in the annual Home for the Holidays fundraiser for the Saskatoon Opera. In further collaboration with local arts organizations, Sofia presented a series of online lectures titled ‘On Bach’s Time - His Life in Music’ under the auspices the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.

This spring Sofia looks forward to performing as soloist with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra in the immersive concert experience Metamorphosis, where thousands of silkscreened paper butterflies created by visual artist Monique Martin will adorn St. John’s Cathedral in Saskatoon. The following week Sofia will also perform a solo piano program with Papillons by Robert Schumann, Bobcats and Butterflies by David McIntyre, The Butterfly by Edvard Grieg, and Metamorphosis by Phillip Glass within the same exhibit presented by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Mycyk earned her degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota where she held a Teaching Assistantship. She currently serves as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to performing and teaching, she is a member of the RCM College of Examiners and an enthusiastic adjudicator of the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association. She credits her teachers Timothy Lovelace and Bonnie Nicholson as major influences in her musical life. Sofia lives in Saskatoon where she loves running outside, reading, and playing violin in the Saskatoon Symphony.

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