Prokopiev, Trajko (Kumanovo, 6. 1909 – Belgrade, 21. and 1979) – Composer and conductor. One of the five founders of contemporary musical life in the Republic of Macedonia, on a creative and organizational plan. Music teaches the Belgrade music school in the class of M. Miloevic. As a student, he participates in Music events in Belgrade, becomes an assistant to Milojic in the Belgrade singer company and a member of a collegiate musicum at the Belgrade University. After graduation, in Skopje, he works with the Poat Company “Mokrovac”, and in the same music school as a violin teacher (1934). He is also the then established Skopje Guard Quartet. In the two-year stay in Leskovac (1935-1937) leads the company “Branko”. Subsequently, it is again a teacher in Skopje and the beginning of the NOB (1941) conductor of the Choice Society “Sloga” and a music teacher of the Sarajevo music. After the war, P. It occupies with many creative activity. Immediately after the liberation forms the choir at the main headquarters of Macedonia. It is appointed first director of the secondary music school in Skopje (December 1944). Participant is also in the formation of all professional bodies and institutions, conductor and advisor to several amateur choral associations, conductor of the orchestra in Radio Skopje and the opera orchestra, and then the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. In Prague, he is studying at P. Djiewekk (1946/47). From 1958 to 1964 is the director of the Ensemble for folk games and songs “Tanec”. The creative opus of P. is very rich and versatile. The foreground comes his choral works, which reveals as a master of vocal lyrics. The Central Place in His Hello Creativity takes the cycle “Kumanoes” – six compositions included among the most beautiful pages in the choral music of the Macedonian authors. In the mature creative period, the author occupies several major vocal-instrumental works: Ballet “Labin and Dojrana” and the operas “parting”, according to the drama “Campelines” by A. Panov, and “Kuzman Kaptidane”, according to the eponymous work of V. Iloski, inspired by the poem “Serdar” from gr. Prlicev. Dr. O.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис ПРОКОПИЕВ, Трајко