Composer, artistic director and conductor, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, member of the ROAC of the All-Ukrainian Music Union, winner of the Regional Art Prize named after Herman Zhukovsky.
Biography
He was born on July 19, 1955 in the village of Dilove, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathian region. In 1978, he graduated with honors from Uzhhorod Music College (class of P. Marko), and in 1986 - from Rivne State Institute of Culture (class of Honored Artist of Ukraine, Associate Professor B. Derevianko).
Since 1986, he has been the artistic director and conductor of the Bereznovo Folk Choir "Bogush". He is the author of hundreds of original songs and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs.
The Bereznovo Choir under the direction of F. Hoshchuk was a laureate and winner of the Grand Prix of the All-Ukrainian Festival-Contest "Ukrainian Choral Singing" (1993), the P. Demutsky Choral Competition (1995, 1998, 2004). Winner of the regional competition named after the People's Artist of Ukraine Yevhen Kukharets. Participant in the XVI Festival of Ukrainian Culture in Podlasie (Poland) "Podlasie Autumn" (2007) and the II Regional Festival of Song Creativity "Colors of the Ancient City" (Starokonstantyniv). Two programs of Fedir Hoshchuk's original songs were recorded on the Rivne Regional Radio.
He is the author of the music of the anthem of Bereznovskyi district of Rivne region and the city of Varash (Kuznetsovsk).
Since 2006, he has been the director of the folk amateur choir of the Center for Culture and Leisure in Kuznetsovsk (Varash). The choir has participated in many national and regional festivals, won the Grand Prix at the Regional Festival of Choirs "Song is My Destiny!" named after Yevhen Kukharets (Dubrovytsia), and since 2008 has been the director of the Kuznetsovsk Children's Music School.
He was also the director of the folk women's choir of the Bereznovske Vocational School-4 in Rivne region (awarded a diploma of the second degree by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2004).
and Science of Ukraine, 2004), the student choir of the Bereznovo Forestry College, the folk amateur group of the Zoryna Ensemble of the Zirna Tuberculosis Hospital (Bereznovo district), and the choir of doctors of the Bereznovo Central Hospital. For eight years (2000-2008), he worked at Bereznovo School No. 2 as a music teacher and children's choir director.
He is the author of the collections of songs "I will fly as a bird over Polissia" (Rivne, 1993), "Plant a viburnum for yourself" (Zdolbuniv, 1993), "Singers came to visit" (Kyiv, 2005).
He was married. He had two children. He died at the age of 61 from an incurable disease. He was buried in Berezne, Rivne region.
