Mykola Volodymyrovych Dyadyura (born 5 August 1961, Kyiv).
People's Artist of Ukraine. Winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2011).
One of the leading conductors of Ukraine, who combines great talent with mature skills.
He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservatory (1987, class of the People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor R. Kofman).
In 1986-1988, he worked as the chief conductor of the Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia).
Rossini, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Nabucco, La Traviata by G. Verdi, La bohème, Floria Tosca, Gianni Schicchi by G. Puccini, Norma by V. Bellini, Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti, and La bohème by G. Rossini. Donizetti, Yaroslav the Wise by G. Maiboroda, Don Carlos, Nabucco by G. Verdi, The Tale of Tsar Saltan by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube by S. Gulak-Artemsky. Gulak-Artemovsky, The Servant-Maid by G. B. Pergolesi and ballets Daphnis and Chloe by M. Ravel, Nights in the Gardens of Spain and El sombrero de tres picos with music by M. De Falla, Julius Caesar with music by O. Respighi.
In 1990, Mykola Dyadyura was invited by the world-famous conductor Seiji Ozawa to an internship at the Boston Symphony Orchestra (USA), where he studied under Leonard Bernstein and Andre Previn. From 1989 to 1996, he was the chief conductor of the Seoul Symphony Orchestra and the Kwangju Symphony Orchestra, where he staged Puccini's Tosca, Leoncavallo's La Pagliacci, and Mascagni's La Rusticia in collaboration with the National Opera Company of South Korea.
3 In 1996, M. Diadiura became the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, where he launched the cycles of symphony concerts "All Beethoven Symphonies", "All Brahms Symphonies and Concertos", performed for the first time in Ukraine the symphony "Romeo and Julia", "Te deum" and Requiem by G. Berlioz, and "Coronation Mass" by G. Paisiello.
He has conducted many theatrical and concert projects of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, including the mono-opera Tenderness by V. Hubarenko, the opera Fidelio by L. Beethoven, the musical and dramatic scenes Blizzard (A. Pushkin - G. Sviridov), the musical and theatrical scenes Per Gynt (H. Ibsen - E. Grieg), and others.
As a guest conductor, he worked with philharmonic orchestras in Poland, Italy, South Korea, and Japan. He had numerous concert tours to Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, and Turkey. He has participated in international festivals in Ukraine - Kyiv Music Fest, Music Premieres of the Season, Virtuosos (Lviv) and abroad - Le Melomany (France), Saint-Maxime Music Festival (France), La Chaise-Dieu (France), Hector Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint-André (France), International Sacred Music Festival in Marseille (France), Blacked (Germany), Wroclaw (Poland), Days of Ukrainian Culture in Switzerland (Bern) and others.
Laureate of the Min-On International Conducting Competition and winner of the Special Prize of the Japanese Conductors Association (1987, Tokyo), laureate of the J. Ferenczyk International Conducting Competition (1988, Budapest), recipient of the Order of Merit, II Class (2021), Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (2005).
In 2015, he was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy, the highest state award of the Italian Republic that can be conferred on foreign citizens.
