Artistic work

The Slavitch-Régamey Music School (established in 1900 and operating till the outbreak of the civil war in 1919) was located at 32 Pushkinskaya St., in the very centre of Kyiv, in the same building (a house in the style of Russian Classicist functionalism) where the Régameys lived in a first-floor apartment. It was there that their only son Konstanty was born (in 1907), brought up in a musical environment, and learned the fundamentals of music. In that period their marriage broke up, and Konstanty Kazimierz found sanctuary in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, where he underwent medical treatment and returned to form while working at the local music conservatory. In 1922 he returned to Kyiv, where he headed the music school, soon incorporated into the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute, an institution of high repute in which he held the post of piano professor between 1928 and 1934. Known at that time as Kostya Regame, he enjoyed recognition and was liked by his colleagues. Unfortunately, this cradle of progressive artists and intellectuals was submitted to political and police surveillance and subsequently closed. The school’s closure was preceded by arrests. In his last years (1934–1937), Régamey worked at Kyiv Conservatory as a professor at the chair of piano studies. Régamey gave many public performances in the last decade of his life. Most frequently he accompanied well-known singers such as baritones Mykola Filimonov and Mikhail Bocharov as well as tenor Dmitry Revutsky. In 1927–1932 he was a regular accompanist at Radio Kyiv’s concert cycles (programmed and conducted by Levko Revutsky) presenting many centuries of vocal music history on the air. Régamey’s Radio Kyiv recordings have unfortunately been lost.

Jerzy Stankiewicz, "The Forgotten figure...