Yuriy Yevhenovych Laniuk (born June 7, 1957, Lviv) is a Ukrainian composer, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, winner of the First Prize of the Mykola Lysenko Republican Cellist Competition (1974), winner of the L. Revutsky Prize (1990) and the B. Liatoshynsky Prize (2000), winner of the Lviv Glory Regional Prize (2002), winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2005). Honored Artist of Ukraine (2008).
Graduated from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory as a cellist in 1980 (class of Yevhen Spitzer) and in 1985 as a composer (class of Desiderii Zador). In 1982, he completed an assistantship-training as a cellist at the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory (class of Prof. Chervovyi V. S.). Since 1984, he has been working as a teacher, later as an associate professor, professor of the Department of Stringed Instruments and Composition at the Lviv State Conservatory (now the Mykola Lysenko Music Academy). His class has produced professional instrumentalists and composers, winners of national and international competitions.
He is a member of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee (since December 2016).
Creative work
According to L. Kyianovska, the composer's creative credo is "to write a work that has no direct analogues to the works of other artists and even to his own previous opuses", in her opinion, the composer remains a supporter of the "radical style of writing", his works are written "rationally, inventively, with deep admiration for the inexhaustible technical possibilities of modern sound production, and, at the same time, a manifestation of his own lyrical reflections through the prism of "rationality".
In the composer's oeuvre:
The Blackthorn's Complaint, based on words by Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, for soprano and chamber orchestra (1976/91)
Singing for the Equinox to lyrics by Saint-John Persaud for soprano, baritone and orchestra (1977/91)
Music for the TV movie Melancholic Waltz based on the story by Olga Kobylianska (1990)
The Forgotten Land based on short stories by Vasyl Stefanyk for symphony orchestra and soprano (1992)
The Hunter Grackh based on texts by Franz Kafka for baritone and chamber orchestra (1993)
Sonata of Waiting for cello, piano and four melodic voices (1993)
Tangopak for piano and percussion (1994), version for piano, percussion and strings (1996)
Music for Reshersh for nine instruments (1994-1996)
Palimpsests on texts by Vasyl Stus and canonical texts for solo violin, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1994/98-99)
Music for memoirs, new parables and sermons based on texts by N. Parra (translated into Ukrainian by B. Boychuk) for soprano, baritone and symphony orchestra (1997-1998)
Music from the book Stabled Spaces and Elegy for the Bird of Radiance for solo cello and piano, two string quartets (2000)
...knots of life, like knots of bird flights (B.-I. Antonych) for flute, oboe, viola, cello and piano (2001)
Annunciation for solo violin, mixed choir and string orchestra (2003)
Songs of the People Beyond for mezzo-soprano, piano and strings (2004)
Cycle of a cappella choral works based on texts by Ukrainian poets (Taras Shevchenko, P. Tychyna, V. Barka) (2005-...)
A melody for playing the trumpet at the Lviv Town Hall.
