Ukrainian opera and chamber singer (tenor). People's Artist of Ukraine (2011), professor. Husband of Natalia Lemishka.
Biography.
Ukrainian musicians Volodymyr Vernei, Viacheslav Khimyak, Yaroslav Lemishka and Oleksandr Vatsek during a concert of the Oreya Choir at the Ternopil Regional Philharmonic on February 11, 2016.
He graduated from the Ternopil Music College and the Kyiv Conservatory (1990, now the Music Academy, class of Kostiantyn Ognevyi).
In 1990-1992, he worked at the Ternopil Drama Theater (now the Academic Theater), where he performed the roles of Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky), Petro (Natalka Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko); later he was a vocalist at the Regional Philharmonic, a vocal teacher at the Ternopil State Pedagogical University (now TNPU).
Since July 2007, he has been the director of the Ternopil Regional Philharmonic.
He has performed in Belgium, Holland, Canada, Germany, Poland, the USA, and France.
Yaroslav Lemishka's repertoire includes romances, folk songs, leading arias from operas
"La Traviata" and "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi,
"Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini,
"Love Drink" by Gaetano Donizetti,
"The Pearl Seekers" and "The Persian Beauty" by Georges Bizet,
"May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
"Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Awards.
Honored Artist of Ukraine (1997).
People's Artist of Ukraine (2011).
All-Ukrainian Literary and Art Prize named after the Bohdan and Levko Lepkyh Brothers (2010).
Man of the Year (2015).
Honorary Citizen of Ternopil (2021).
