Hanna Oleksiivna Havrylets (née Frolyak) (April 11, 1958, Vydyniv village, Sniatyn district, Ivano-Frankivsk region - February 27, 2022, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize (1999). Honored Artist of Ukraine (2005).
She was born on April 11, 1958, in Vydyniv, Ivano-Frankivsk region (then Stanislav region). In 1982, she graduated from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory with a degree in composition in the class of Professor Volodymyr Flys, and in 1984, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Petro Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory under the guidance of Professor Myroslav Skoryk.
Since 1992 she has been teaching composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine. Laureate of the Ivanna and Marian Kotsiv International Composition Competition (Kyiv, 1995), Taras Shevchenko National Prize for the musical and stage performance "We will sow the Golden Stone" (1999)[2], All-Ukrainian Composition Competition "Spiritual Psalms of the Third Millennium" within the framework of the Golden-Domed Kyiv Choral Festival (2001).
Her repertoire includes symphonic, chamber-instrumental, vocal-instrumental, and choral music. Her works have been performed in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Canada, Slovakia, Slovenia, the USA, Switzerland, France, and Germany.
She was married to Ukrainian violist Dmytro Havrylets.
She died on February 27, 2022, at the age of 63 in Kyiv[3]. Her body was cremated, and the urn with her ashes was transported to Lviv and buried in field 2 of the Lychakiv Cemetery.
Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (1985-2022), Head of the Kyiv Organization of the NUCU (2010-2022).
Member of the jury, chairman of the jury of many international and national competitions, in particular, chairman of the jury of the first All-Ukrainian vocal competition "World Classics in Ukrainian".
Awards
Laureate of the First All-Ukrainian Festival of Popular Music "Chervona Ruta" (Chernivtsi, 1989)
Laureate of the Ivanna and Mariana Kots International Competition for Composers (Kyiv, 1995)
Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1999)
Laureate of the choral competition "Spiritual Psalms of the Third Millennium" (2001)
Laureate of the Kyiv Prize named after A. Vedel (2005)
Order of the Holy and Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr (2005)
Honored Artist of Ukraine (2005)
Works
The composer is best known for her choral works based on folk songs and spiritual sources. The features of rituals and ancient rituals are embodied in such works as "The Golden Stone...", "The Walking Wheel", and biblical images also play a significant role in her work, in particular in the choruses "Cherubic", "I will sing to You", spiritual psalms "My God, why have you forsaken me" and others, which rely on the ancient traditions of Cantus polyphony.
String Quartet No. 1 (1981)
Concerto for piano and orchestra (1982)
"Symphonic Poem (1983)
Three romances based on poems by S. Maidanska (1983)
Wind Quintet No. 1 (1984)
Three choruses to poems by Oleksandr Oles (1984)
Chamber Cantata "A Look into Childhood" based on poems by M. Wingranowski for soprano and chamber orchestra (1987)
Sonata for viola and piano (1988)
Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1990)
Saxophone Quartet (1991)
"My Dear God, Intercede..." based on poems by F. Mlynchenko for mixed choir (1991)
"Rhapsody-Dialogue" for flute and piano (1992)
"Lamento" based on poems by Oleksandr Oles for mixed choir (1993)
Wind Quintet No. 2 (1994)
"Bookplates" for solo violin (1994)
Concerto for viola and orchestra (1984)
Chamber Symphony No. 2 "In Memoriam" (1995)
"In B" for soprano saxophone solo (1996)
"Autumn Music" for saxophone-tenor and piano (1997)
String Quartet No. 2 "Reminiscences" (1997)
Musical and stage performance with the participation of singer Nina Matvienko "We will sow a golden stone..." (1997-1998)
"Gravity" for piano (1999)
"Canticum" for string orchestra (2000)
Psalms of David for mixed, female, male choir:
"Blessed is the one who cares for the poor..." for women's choir (2000)
"My God, why have You forsaken me?" for mixed choir (2000)
"I lift up my soul to You, my Lord..." for male choir (2000)
Sacred works based on canonical texts:
"Cherubic" for mixed choir (2000)
"I will sing to you" for mixed choir (2000)
"Blessed is the One Who Cares for the Poor" for choir (2001)
"A-corda", symphony for viola and strings (2001)
"Expressions" for string quartet (2004)
"Stabat Mater" for choir and orchestra (2002)
"Chorale" for strings (2003)
"Let God Arise!", choral concerto in 3 parts for mixed choir on canonical texts (2004)
"The Wagon Wheel", a concerto for women's choir based on folk texts (2004)
"Hail, Virgin, Rejoice" for women's choir (2004)
"Only in God is my soul at rest", Psalm for mixed choir (2004)
"My regrets, my regrets" for male choir on folk texts (2004)
Also:
Piano pieces for young pianists.
Choruses to poems by Ukrainian poets, arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs.
Pop songs based on poems by Ukrainian poets: L. Kostenko, D. Pavlychko, V. Symonenko, B. Oliynyk, F. Mlynchenko, B. Chip, O. Kononenko, V. Stolnikov.
Family.
Younger sister Bohdana Froliak is also a composer, Shevchenko Prize laureate (2017).
Her husband, Dmytro Havrylets, is a violist, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
