Ukrainian communications engineer, author and songwriter. Honorary road worker of Ukraine (2003), knight of the Order of Merit III degree (2018). Brother of Bohdan Yaroslavovich Dunets.
honors
Laureate of the international Ukrainian pop song contest "On the Waves of Svityaz" (1996).
Winner of the All-Ukrainian Radio Festival "Song of the Year" (1998, 2003).
II degree graduate of the regional competition "Voice of the Heart" (2001).
Graduate (III place) in the All-Ukrainian competition of literary works named after V. Vikhrushcha (2004).
Order "For Merit" of the 3rd degree (RECREMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 11/2018 dated 20.01.18)
Biography
In 1955-1966, he studied at secondary school No. 2 in Ternopil. He graduated from the Ternopil Music School No. 1 in the accordion class, the engineering and construction faculty of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute (1971), now the Lviv Polytechnic University, majoring in "Communication Engineer".
Worked as a foreman of the bridge section, engineer and head of the production and technical department of the Ternopil road repair and construction department No. 38, chief engineer of the Directorate of highways under construction in the Ternopil region; since 2001 — head of the department of quality, technical control and new technologies of the Highway Service in the Ternopil region.
Retired since May 2013.
Art
In 1962, he graduated with honors from the Ternopil Music School No. 1.
He learned to play the guitar on his own. He has been engaged in songwriting since his student years, but on a professional level - since 1993.
In 1993, he participated in 50 concerts in Canada with the Vizerunok musical group. Subsequently, he performed in Germany and the USA[1].
Author of the collection of poems and songs "Mama's mallows" (1998).
Songs by Vasyl Dunets, in addition to him, are also performed by:
people's artists of Ukraine: Ivan Popovych, Pavlo Zibrov, Volodymyr Zasukhin, Volodymyr Turets, Roman Rudy, Vasyl Chepelyuk, Lyubov Izotova, Hryhoriy Drapak;
honored artists of Ukraine: Petro Chornyi, Mykhailo Popelyuk, Leonid Korzhenevskyi, Svitlana Babchuk, Iryna Grechko, Svitlana Sorochynska, Vyacheslav Sudima, Alla Opeyda.
bands: "Cossack Fun", "Merry Halychans", "Otava", "Night", members of the "MIX" song theater and many other performers.
The author of more than 200 songs based on his own poems and poems by Ukrainian poets Dmytro Pavlychk, Volodymyr Sosyura, Stepan Halyabardy, Olesya Lupiya, Nadia Kiryan, Boris Demkov, Mykhailo Levitskyi, Mykola Tymchak, Boris Mozolevskyi, Anatoly Figliuk, Maria Potykevich-Zabolotnaya, Svitlana Boyarkevich , Mykhailo Konechnyi, Marta Chopyk, Lyubov Milevych, Oksana Maksimyshyn-Corabel (Portugal), Hanna Cherin (USA), Nadia Kozak (Canada), Oleksandr Smik, Boris Velichka, Yevhen Barov, Oleksandr Havrylenko, Vitaly Ivanytskyi, Viktor Pidgurskyi, Zinovia Kazio , Olga Rozaliuk, Natalia Paprocka, Olena Artemchuk, Raisa Obsharska, Valentina Pashchenko and others.
Collaborates with composers and arrangers Yuriy Krokhin, Oleksandr Burmitsky, Roman Rudy, Andriy Stadnytskyi, Volodymyr Tsap, Zenovii Turk, Serhiy Rodek, Serhiy Stepaniv, sound engineers Oleksandr Tretyak, Volodymyr Baranov and Serhiy Rodek.
The songs "Foreigner" (1998), "Young Jasmine Bush" (2003), "Romance for Stepan Bandera" and "I'm coming back" in my own performance (2008) won prizes in the "Song of the Year" radio festival (Radio station "Promin").
Discography
"Listen and think" (1993, 1994),
"Mother's hollyhocks" (1998),
"My Beloved" (2002),
"My family is Ukraine" (2003),
"Dedication to Mother" (2007),
"I'm Back" (2008),
"Grapes of Love" (2012),
"Let's take care of love" (2014),
"Smile, good people" (2016),
"We are Ukrainians" (2016).
"Towels from Ukraine" (2018).
Filmography
Musical films were created with the participation of Vasyl Dunets and based on his songs:
"My hand will never bring harm or trouble to anyone" (1997),
"I live by songs" (2003).
Both films were created at the "Vis" film studio in Ternopil.
