Larysa Donnyk (June 18, 1938, Kharkiv - November 21, 2022, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian composer, author of symphonic, chamber and sacred choral music, children's teacher, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, winner of the V. Kosenko Prize (2016).
1967 - graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after Ivan Kotliarevsky, composition class of Vitalii Hubarenko.
Since 1967, she has been a teacher of music-theoretical disciplines at music schools in Kharkiv.
Since 1971, he has been a teacher (teacher of the highest category) of composition at the Children's Music School No. 9 named after V. Sokalsky in Kharkiv. Among her students are Oleksandr Shchetynskyi, Oleksandr Hugel, Olena Zilberman.
1986, May - admitted to the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
1991 - regent at the initial stage of the creation of the choir in the parish of St. John the Theologian Church (Kharkiv).
From 1991 to 2016, Larysa Donnyk's sacred choral music was repeatedly performed by the Kyiv Music Fest International Ukrainian Music Festival in concerts by the M. Leontovych Chamber Choir (later the Khreshchatyk Choir).
Creative work
Larysa Donnyk's work is multigenre. Harmonious thinking, polyphonic musical fabric, religious motifs, imaginative and melodic intonation are aimed at revealing the spirit of the Ukrainian mentality in various aspects of both the past and the present.
Chamber music
String Quartet in 4 movements, 1964
Music for choir
"Spring Wreath" /based on 3 Ukrainian folk songs/ (for children's choir A cappella, 1988)
"Lullaby-Reflection" for a trio of bandura players /based on Ukrainian folk songs "Oh You Luli, Luli", "The Falcon Returned", "Mountains and Valleys Went" / for women's a cappella choir (1990)
"In Memory of M. Verbytskyi" for mixed a capella choir (words by H. Chuprynka. 1993)
Suite "In Memory of M. Berezovsky" for mixed a capella choir (words by S. Sapeliak, 1994)
"Akathist to the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Iconostasis of the Holy Protection in Kharkiv" for lyrical and dramatic soprano and mixed choir (words by S. Sapeliak, 1995)
"Three Prayers" on canonical texts for mixed choir, 1996
For orchestra
"Song about the Motherland" for chamber orchestra, score, 1981
"Duma" for symphony orchestra, score, 1st edition, 1982
Choreographic poem "Awakening" for symphony orchestra, score (Lesya Ukrainka's "Forest Song", 1987)
"Concert Poem" for cymbals and symphony orchestra in memory of H. Hotkevych, 2001
"Orange Prayer", frescoes for symphony orchestra, score, 2005
Variations for instruments
Banduras
Psalms for bandura, 1991
Vocal cycle "Earth's Attraction" for soprano and bandura (words by V. Symonenko, 1992)
"Sloboda Sketches" for flute and bandura, 1994
"Poem in Memory of Hnat Khotkevych" for bandura and piano (words by M. Melnychenko, 1996)
Concert Variations "Oh in Kharkiv on the Marketplace", 1997
Suite "We will not forget the glory of the Cossacks forever", 2001
Children's cycle for bandura based on poems by Ukrainian poets, 2003
Cymbals.
"Slobozhanska fantasy" No. 1, "Slobozhanska fantasy" No. 2, 1995
"Sonata-Epitaph in Memory of Hnat Khotkevych", one-part, 1997
Virtuoso concert piece "Cossack Circle", "Carol Variations", 1998
Variation "The Grass Blooms" (based on a Ukrainian folk song), 2000
Piano
Suite on Hutsul folk themes for block flute / or other wind instruments: Fl, Ob, Cl, Tr-ba/ and piano, 1989
Collection of piano pieces for children, 1992
Pieces for piano for 4 hands "This Fairy Tale Magic Rose" and "Jolly Bun", 1999
Fantasy ""Illumination" in memory of Galina Tyumeneva", 2000
"Sketches", for piano, second edition, 2001
Piano and violins
Sonata-dumas for violin and piano in 2 parts, 1974
Three pieces for violin and piano based on poems by Taras Shevchenko, 2002
"Garden of Divine Songs", a piece for flute /or violin/ and piano, 2002
"Humorous Notes" for violin and piano based on works by Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, 2005
Cycles for voice and piano
"A cloud floats behind the sun", "Oh, on the mountain a daisy blooms", romances for baritone and piano (words by Taras Shevchenko, 1963)
"Zhyvytsia", vocal cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano based on the poem by Maria Vlad, 1979
"The Winds Are Playing Drymba", triptych for high soprano and piano based on poems by Maria Vlad, 1982
Vocal cycle about the Holodomor of 1932-1933 "To Whom I Will Tell My Sorrow" for baritone and piano (lyrics by O. Oles, 1993)
Romance "Holy Night" for high voice and piano (lyrics by L. Ukrainka, 2000)
Spiritual cycle of vocal poems for mezzo-soprano /soprano/ and piano (words by B. Antonych and O. Oles, 2005)
Larysa Donnyk's sacred choral music is included in the funds of the National Radio. Her works for cymbals are performed in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova, Germany, and Hungary.
