Vasyl Kiyose (7 October 1925, Kalcheva, modern Bolhrad district, Odesa region - 11 March 1993, Dnipro, buried in Odesa) - Ukrainian choral conductor, Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1976), Shevchenko Prize winner, awarded with diplomas of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.
Biography.
Born in a peasant family, he graduated from school in 1939. After the war, from 1945 to 1949, he studied at the Odesa Music College, choirmaster's department. In 1954, he graduated from the Odesa Conservatory, Choral Conducting Department, with Dmytro Zahretskyi, Kostiantyn Pyhrov, and N. Pyhrova as his teachers.
From 1945, he taught singing at Odesa School No. 30, then in the village of V. Dalnyk, and directed the choir. Later, he worked at the Odesa Agricultural Institute, taught choir master disciplines at the State Music and Cultural Education Schools in Odesa. He was the artistic director of the song and dance ensembles of the Higher Maritime School and the Black Sea School (at the Odesa State Philharmonic).
From 1959 to 1973, he worked as a teacher at the Odesa Conservatory, and from 1959 he was a choirmaster of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre.
In 1974-1993, he worked as the chief choirmaster of the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre.
In 1978, he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize together with K. Dankevych, P. Varivoda, A. Arefiev, A. Danshin, N. Surzhyna, and M. Ukrainskyi for the staging of the opera Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in a new version at the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Among the performances he directed
"Bohdan Khmelnytsky by Konstantin Dankevich - 1977,
"The Pagliacci" by Ruggiero Leoncavallo - 1988,
"Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Guilty Beauty - 1990,
participated in productions:
"Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin,
"Boris Godunov" by Modest Mussorgsky,
"The Optimistic Tragedy by Alexander Kholminov.
