Yurii Antkiv (30 November 1944, Chortkiv, Ternopil region - 2 May 2014, Lviv) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. The son of Bohdan Antkiv.
He graduated from the music school in Ternopil (1961), studied at the Ternopil (1961-1963) and Lviv (1963-1965) music schools, at the piano faculty of the Lviv Conservatory (1965-1970, class of D. Zador). He continued his studies at the Conducting Faculty of the Odesa Conservatory (1977), class of Professor A. Serebri.
He worked at the Cherkasy Music College (1970-1971).
Since 1971 he has been a lecturer at the F. Kolessa Lviv Music and Pedagogical College. He taught the speciality "conducting", and was also the head of the choir class (1976-78, 1988-91), the women's choir (1986-89), the teachers' choir (1989-90) and the mixed choir (1990). He was a permanent concertmaster of the Burevestnik men's choir.
From 1995 to 2005, Yurii Antkiv taught conducting and choral disciplines at the Lviv Pedagogical College.
From 2005 to 2014, he worked at the Department of Choral Singing at the Faculty of Culture and Arts of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
Artistic director of the folk choral chapel "Zahrava" of the Regional House of Teachers (1974-1994).
Since 1999, he has been the artistic director of the Shchedryk Children's Choir at the Church of the Holy Eucharist in Lviv.
Since 2002, he has been one of the organisers of the committee of the Christmas festival "Great Carol" (Lviv).
Member of the jury of the festivals-competitions "Trumpets of Victories" (Lviv) and "Song of the Heart" (Sokal).
2005-2010 - director of the choir "Nadiya" of the Church of the Position of the Belt of the Holy Virgin (UGCC).
He died on 2 May 2014 in Lviv after a long and serious illness.
He was buried at Lychakiv Cemetery.
His works include
collection "Choral Solfege" (1997, 100 songs; co-authored),
collection "Songs of Ukrainian Insurgents of the 1940s-1960s" (2002, 70 songs; co-authored)
"Kupala Songs" (2004)
"Saint Nicholas is coming" (2009)
a collection of carols for homogeneous and mixed choirs arranged, translated and processed by Yurii Antkiv (Lviv, 2012).
