Ukrainian choral conductor, composer, teacher; professor since 1992. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1978.
Biography.
He was born on November 17, 1927 in Zaporizhzhia (now Ukraine). He worked in the Sakhalin Philharmonic, and in 1955-1956 - in the Kharkiv Philharmonic. From 1961 to 1973, he was a concertmaster and artistic director of the Kharkivianky variety and instrumental ensemble in Kharkiv. In 1971, he graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts (choral conducting class of Z. Yakovleva).
In 1973-1978, he worked as an artistic director and chief conductor of the Donbas Ensemble in Donetsk. Since 1978, he was a teacher, and in 1994-2007 he was the head of the Department of Wind and Pop Orchestra Instruments at the Kharkiv Institute of Arts. He died in Kharkiv on March 15, 2007.
Works
sonatas for wind instruments;
for brass instruments - Quintet on Ukrainian themes;
for choir - "Oh, why are you blackened" (words by Taras Shevchenko);
for choir and orchestra - "Spivanochka";
for 2 bassoons and orchestra - Variations.
