Ukrainian conductor and teacher.
Biography.
He was born on November 26, 1939 in the village of Martove (now Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region, Ukraine). In 1965 he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory, in 1971 from the Leningrad Conservatory (teachers Mykola Rabinovych and Isai Sherman), and in 1978 he completed an assistantship at the Kazan Conservatory (teacher Nathan Rachlin).
In 1969-1975, he worked as the chief conductor of the Mari Music and Drama Theater in Yoshkar-Ola, in 1975-1976 - the chief conductor of the Samarkand Opera and Ballet Theater, in 1976-1982 - the Musa Jalil Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater, in 1982-1985 - the symphony orchestras of the Tomsk Philharmonic and in 1985-1997 - the Kharkiv Philharmonic. At the same time, since 1991 he has been a lecturer (since 2010 - Professor) at the Department of Opera Training at the Kharkiv University of Arts and since 1997 - Chief Conductor of the Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater.
Creative work
He has conducted operas:
"Cossack Beyond the Danube" by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky;
"Taras Bulba by Mykola Lysenko;
"Catherine by Mykola Arkas;
"Prince Igor by Oleksandr Borodin;
"La Traviata", "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore", "La Maschera", "Aida", "Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi;
"Faust by Charles Gounod;
"Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin;
"The Mermaid, The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky;
"Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo;
"Tosca, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini;
"The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov;
"Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
"The Barber of Seville, The Marriage Bill by Gioacchino Rossini;
"The Poet by Lev Kolodub (1st performance, 2001).
His repertoire includes:
Symphonies by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Georges Bizet, Antonin Dvořák, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich;
overtures, symphonic poems, suites, instrumental concertos, cantatas, oratorios, including Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem, Luigi Cherubini's Requiem, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Antonín Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Anton Bruckner's Te Deum, and Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
He has toured Europe and the United States.
