Serhiy Dudkin (born 7 October 1930, Leningrad) is a Ukrainian conductor and teacher.
He was born on 7 October 1930 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia). In 1957, he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire with a degree in symphony orchestra and opera conducting. He studied in the class of Nikolai Rabinovich.
From 1958 to 1962, he worked as a conductor of the Dnipro Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; from 1962, he was a conductor, and from 1965 to 1971, he was the chief conductor of the Kuibyshev Philharmonic. In 1969, he completed postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Conservatoire (headed by Yevhen Mravinsky).
In 1971-1985, he worked as the chief conductor of the Zaporizhzhia Philharmonic. Since 1985, he has been a lecturer at the departments of strings and wind instruments of the Zaporizhzhia Music College.
Biography.
His repertoire includes works by Lev Revutsky, Borys Lyatoshynsky, Andriy Shtogarenko, Myroslav Skoryk, Yevhen Stankovych, Lev Kolodub, Igor Shamo, Ivan Karabyts, Serhiy Prokofiev, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Franz Liszt, Alexander Glazunov, Rodion Shchedrin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy.
He toured the republics of the USSR.
Awards.
Laureate of the 2nd Leningrad Festival of Youth (1957);
Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1976;
Awarded the Order "For Merit to Zaporizhzhia Region" (2008)
