Istvan Titusovych Gedi (Hungarian: Hegyi István; born May 4, 1962) is a Ukrainian composer, conductor and public figure of Hungarian descent. He is the founder, music director and conductor of the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra (UNSO), and director of the Ukrainian Center for the Arts[1]. In 1977, he won the All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Composers in Kyiv. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory, where he studied opera and symphony conducting with Stefan Turchak and Allin Vlasenko, and composition with Hennadiy Lyashenko and Yevhen Stankovych.
Since October 6, 1989, he has been the director of the Republican Center for the Arts at the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine, and since July 3, 1992, he has been the director of the Ukrainian Center for the Arts at the Ukrainian House Center of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine (since April 2, 1993, at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, since February 23, 2000, at the State Administration of the Office of the President of Ukraine).
In 1991, in Kyiv, he created the first national cultural institution of independent Ukraine - the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra - UNSO, with which he held a number of national events and tours, including: participation in events dedicated to the Holodomor of 1932-1933; a solemn concert dedicated to the 180th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko; an evening in memory of Stefan Turchak (1993); participation in the tour of the world-famous Tokyo Ballet in Kyiv (1992). Kyiv (1992); concerts dedicated to the Day of Kyiv and the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi occupation; the First Festival of Swiss Art in Ukraine (1991); Days of France in Ukraine (1993); tours in Hungary (Budapest, 1991-1992), the International Festival "Europe of Cantatas" (Veszprém, Hungary, 1992-1993); tours in Poland (Zielona Góra, 1992), Germany (Berlin, 1992), Italy (International Festival "Panatene Pompiane", Capri, 1992); tours in Lviv, Uzhhorod (1992) and Chernihiv (1993). Author of the national program "Anthology of Ukrainian Music" in CDs (1994).
Since 2001, he has been the CIS producer of the International Festival of Opera and Ballet Art "Bartók Plusz Operafesztivál" (Miskolc, Hungary). Founding of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra named after Béla Bartók - Budapesti Bartók Béla Szimfonikus Zenekar, and touring with it in Zurich, Switzerland (2001). Author of the idea of the International Opera and Ballet Festival "Kyivska Rus" in Kyiv (2005).
Together with the Embassy of Hungary in Ukraine, he organized a concert dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Hungarian composer Béla Bartók with the participation of the Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio Company of Ukraine at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine (2006).
Works.
"Ballad Fantasy (1979) and Children's Suite Pinocchio (1980) for piano.
Romance "You Were Brighter Than All..." for tenor and piano based on the words of Oleksandr Blok (1981).
A cycle of arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for choir (1982).
Music for the performance by V. Sidak and M. Shurupov "Rose of Freedom" for the opening of the Transcarpathian Regional Puppet Theater (1982).
Sonata for violin and piano (1987).
Three songs for soprano and piano based on the words of Attila Jozsef (1987),
Concerto for octet in memory of Bela Bartok (1981).
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1989),
Nocturne and Scherzo for cello and piano (1989),
Duma "To the Best" in memory of Stepan Bandera for baritone, mixed choir and symphony orchestra based on lyrics by Leonid Sapa (1997). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSRDCnr5z0 [Archived March 27, 2016 at the Wayback Machine].
Symphonic poem "Freedom" (2001).
Music for string orchestra in memory of Stefan Turchak (2008).
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