Hryhorii Onufriyovych Diachenko (born January 25, 1896, Bovkun - died 1972, Opava) was a Ukrainian singer (tenor), choral conductor, and composer.
He was born on January 13, 1886, in the village of Bovkun, Koshevakha parish, Tarashchanka district, Kyiv province of the Russian Empire (now Bila Tserkva district, Kyiv region, Ukraine). In 1914 he graduated from the teacher's school of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. Since 1914, he worked as a teacher and choral conductor. In 1918-1919, he studied at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Music and Drama Institute (solo singing class of Olena Muraviova).
In 1919, he traveled abroad with the Ukrainian Republican Chapel on a concert trip. He stayed in Czechoslovakia, where he graduated from the Prague Conservatory (in 1926, vocal class; in 1930, composition class of Josef Suk).
In 1929-1930, he sang at the Opera House in Pilsen, in 1932-1945 at the Olomouc Opera House, and in 1945-1949 at the Opava Opera House. He died in Opava in 1972.
Works.
"Thought" for oboe and small symphony orchestra (1925);
String Quartet (1929);
symphonic poems - "Labush" (1930), "Victory" (1932);
works for piano;
works for choir ("Growing up in a bunch", "Green Forest");
solo songs to the words of Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, and Oleksandr Oles.
