Bohdan Volodymyrovych Depo (b. 17 September 1944, Koniukhy - d. 23 March 1992, Rivne) was a Ukrainian conductor and teacher, professor.
He was born on 17 September 1944 in the village of Koniukhy (now Lublin Voivodeship, Poland). In 1945, he moved to Ukraine with his parents. In 1970, he graduated from the accordion class at the Lviv Conservatory; in 1972, he graduated from the conducting class, and was a student of Mykola Kolessa.
In 1963-1966, he worked in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Transcaucasian Military District; in 1971-1978, he taught at the Rivne Music College; at the same time, since 1972, he was the organiser and artistic director of the chamber orchestra of the Rivne Philharmonic. In 1981-1983, he was an intern with Gennadiy Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Chamber Music Theatre.
Since 1983, he has been a lecturer at the Rivne Institute of Culture: from 1991 to 1992, he headed the Department of Folk Instruments. He died in Rivne on 23 March 1992.
Honours.
Laureate of the Republican Chamber Orchestra Competition (1978, 2nd prize);
People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1990.
Honours.
At the end of 2018, in Rivne, on the house where the artist lived from 1987 to 1992, a granite memorial plaque was installed, made at the expense of musician and local historian Bohdan Stoliarchuk
