Ukrainian composer. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
Biography.
Bohdana Frolyak received her primary musical education in her native village under the guidance of Vasyl Oleksiyovych Kufliuk, a village teacher who received his pedagogical and musical education in Warsaw and developed his own methodology for developing absolute hearing in children. Kufliuk also organized a theater group, where the composer's mother played. The composer's older sister Hanna Havrylets also studied with Kufliuk.
In 1986, she graduated from the Lviv Music Boarding School named after S. Krushelnytska with a degree in piano, music theory, and composition. In 1991, she graduated from the composition faculty of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Music Academy with professors Volodymyr Flys and Myroslav Skoryk. In 1998, she completed an internship at the same institution (now the Lviv National Music Academy). In 2009, she was an intern at the Departments of Composition and Contemporary Music and Jazz at the Krakow Academy of Music.
Since 1991, she has been a lecturer at the Department of Composition at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.
According to the decision of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine Committee, she won in the Musical Art nomination for her symphony-requiem "Righteous Soul...", choral cantata "Color" and musical work "I Dream a Dream". This decision of the committee was approved by a decree of the President of Ukraine.
Main works
Orchestral works
Symphony No. 1 Orbis Terrarum - 1998;
Symphony No. 2 - 2009;
Concerto for piano and orchestra - 2012;
Clarinet Concerto - 2004-2005;
Concerto for piano and orchestra (for children's hands) - 2000;
"Forests are floating in the air..." based on texts by V. Stefanyk and Nazar Honchar for clarinet, cello, piano, mixed choir and strings - 2002;
Vestigia for violin, viola and strings - 2003;
Kyrie eleison for mixed choir and strings - 2004;
Daemmerung for clarinet and strings - 2005;
Agnus Dei for mixed choir and strings - 2006;
Jak modlitwa based on a text by Adam Zagajewski for soprano and small symphony orchestra - 2007;
Enlightenment for cello and strings - 2006;
Chamber and solo works
"...how you speak to my soul: "Fly away to your mountain like a bird?"" (Psalm) for flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone (originally an English horn), violin, viola and cello - 2001;
Stück for piano - 2004;
Meditation Partita for two violins - 2007;
Lamento for piano trio - 2008;
Suite in C for cello and piano - 2008;
Inventions for eight cellos - 2009;
Scholarships and awards
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko presents Bohdana Frolyak with the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2017
Scholarships:
2001 - Scholarship of the Warsaw Autumn Fans' Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung;
2004 - Gaude Polonia scholarship from the Minister of Culture of Poland;
Awards:
2000 - L. Revutsky State Prize of the National Union of Composers and the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine in the field of composition;
2005 - State Prize of the National Union of Composers and the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine named after B. Liatoshynsky in the field of composition;
Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2017 - for music based on Taras Shevchenko's works: Symphony-Requiem "Righteous Soul...", Choral Cantata "Flower", musical work "I Dream a Dream".
