Kurach Yuriy Volodymyrovych (6 September 1958, Zolochiv, Lviv region) is a Ukrainian conductor. General Director and Artistic Director of the National Honoured Bandura Choir of Ukraine.
In 1981 he graduated from Drohobych Music College (class of E. Bernatska). Yuriy Kurach received his higher education at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (class of Viktor Dzhenkov).
Since 1984, he has worked as a conductor of the Revutsky Men's Choir of Ukraine.
Since 1996, he has been a lecturer, and since 2004 - Associate Professor of the Department of Choral Conducting at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
Since 2000, he has been a lecturer in conducting at the Lysenko Kyiv Secondary Special Boarding School.
From 2009 to September 2013, he was the artistic director of the Revutsky Chapel. During his work at the chapel, Yuriy Kurach prepared for performance a large number of choral works and concert programmes by Dmitri Shostakovich, Luigi Cherubini, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Friedrich Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Taneev, Mykola Leontovych, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Dmytro Bortnyansky, Maksym Berezovsky, Lesia Dychko, Carl Orff, Volodymyr Zubytsky, and Yevhen Stankovych.
On 13 September 2013, by the order of the Minister of Culture, Yuriy Kurach was appointed General Director and Artistic Director of the National Honoured Bandura Choir of Ukraine.
State awards
People's Artist of Ukraine (25 June 2016) - for significant personal contribution to state-building, socio-economic, scientific, technical, cultural and educational development of Ukraine, significant labour achievements and high professionalism
Honoured Artist of Ukraine (23 May 1997) - for significant personal contribution to the socio-economic development of Kyiv, enrichment of the national cultural heritage, and high professionalism
