Yosyp Semenovych Kurochko (1911-1968) was a Ukrainian and Polish choral conductor and teacher.
He was born on 28 January 1911. He graduated from Lviv University in 1940 and studied music at the Lviv Conservatory. He worked as the director of the Lviv Philharmonic Vocal Quartet, and since 1943 - in Poland.
In 1956-1968, he was an intermittent organiser and conductor of the mixed choir of the Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society in Warsaw.
He is the author of the textbook for Ukrainian schools "Ukrainian School Songbook" - "Chytanky for Grades 2 and 6" (1960) - together with Tetiana Holynska, Kost Kuzyk, Mykola Syvitskyi, Yakiv Hudemchuk, and Ivan Brook.
In 1966, for a gala concert on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the USCT, which took place at the Warsaw Jewish Theatre, a mixed choir was formed from the three Ukrainian groups working in Poland at the time. It consisted of a choir from Przemyśl (conducted by Jarosława Popowska), a choir from Gdańsk, and a choir from Warsaw. This combined choir was conducted in shifts: Jarosław Polianski, Jarosława Popowska, and Joseph Kuroczko. The Koshalin Ukrainian Youth Choir "Millennium" (founded in 1987) performs his works. He died in 1968.
