Ukrainian opera and concert and chamber music singer (tenor), soloist of the Dnipro and Lviv operas, the Ukrainian Opera Ensemble in Munich, Germany.
Biography.
He graduated from the Music School (Music College) in Dnipro (a student of the singer O. Tarlovska), where he began his career as a young singer in the opera. The war tore the young singer away from his home, and in 1943 he found himself in Lviv, where he sang at the Ukrainian Opera as a tenor soloist. Here he met the singer Lev Reynarovych.
He was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory under the direction of Karl Primer, and later, after arriving in Salzburg (Austria), he began performing at the Mozarteum Hall with the soloists of the Milianska Opera, Giuseppe Tadei and A. Tsatoni. He never stopped working on his voice under the supervision of Berlin Opera Professor R. Raphaeli, with whom he performed several times; he performed in the camp opera house (directed by Semen Butovsky) and gave concerts with Lev Turkevych's Vatra choir.
In 1950, he arrived in the United States where he continued his studies with Italian singing masters Prof. F. Capelli and S. Ardelli, and also took a year-long course at the Music School of Philadelphia with Professor Tillie Barmach.
In 1952 Gosch performed with Metropolitan Opera soloist Anno Kaskas, in 1953 at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia (the role of Andriy from Tchaikovsky's opera Mazepa), and in 1954 again at Carnegie Hall at the Ukrainian Festival in Lysenko's opera May Night (in the role of Levko).
In 1956, the singer was invited by the Polonia Opera Company and toured a number of American cities, singing the role of Casimir in the opera Grabina. Ivan Hosh's performance in this opera has been recognized by such singing masters as Martha Egert, Jan Kepura, and Lucia Szczypanska.
In New York, he sang in the following productions: "Arkas's Katerina (Andriy), Natalka-Poltavka (Petro), Uglicki's The Witch, Lysenko's The Black Sea Fleet, and as Andriy in Zaporozhets. On November 15, 1969, Gosch performed in the premiere of Anton Rudnytsky's new opera Anna Yaroslavna (libretto by Leonid Poltava) in Toronto, Canada.
In late 2007, he returned to Ukraine. He lived in Kyiv, where he died on September 11, 2010. He was buried in Kyiv. The memorial obelisk is located at the Fax Chase Cemetery in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) next to the grave of his wife (Claudia Kempe-Gosch).
Parties.
Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by S. Hulak-Artemovsky; Catherine by M. Arkas; Mazepa by P. Tchaikovsky, in Ukrainian)
Levko (The Drowned by Mykola Lysenko)
Kazimir (The Countess by S. Moniuszko)
Goro (Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini)
Ruiz ("Il trovatore" by G. Verdi)
