Conductor, teacher, composer, master of choral art, artistic director of the Ukrteleradio Choir, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1971), recipient of numerous government awards, winner of the S. Hulak-Artemovsky International Prize (1997).
Biography.
Born in 1927 in the city of Luhansk.
In 1951, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in choral conducting from Mykhailo Verikivskyi. He worked as a conductor of the Dumka Chapel in 1951-1959, and in 1959-1966 - of the State Bandura Choir of the Ukrainian SSR (1959-1966). In 1968-1969, he was a choirmaster at the Taras Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater, and the chief conductor of the Ukrteleradio Choir (1974-1986).
Lecturer at the Department of Choral Conducting at the Kyiv Conservatory (1961-1963), Institute of Culture (1974-1975). 1980 - Senior Lecturer, 1987 - Associate Professor, since 1992 - Professor of the Department of Folk Instruments, Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
In 1960-2004, he was the organizer and director of the Golden Gate Folk Choir of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1980-2004, he worked with the bandura ensemble of the National Music Academy of Ukraine. During this time, he added to its repertoire works by contemporary composers and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs by Serhiy Bashtan, Hryhoriy Veriovka, Anatoliy Kolomiets, Oleksandr Koshyts, Mykola Lysenko, Mykola Leontovych, Stanislav Liudkevych, and Kyrylo Stetsenko. The orchestra performed spiritual compositions by Maksym Berezovsky, Dmytro Bortnyansky, Artem Vedel, Mykola Lysenko, Mykola Leontovych, translated by Maltsev, and works by Volodymyr Zubytsky and Yevhen Stankovych. The orchestra also performed compositions by Johann Bach, Georges Bizet, Antonio Vivaldi, George Handel, Zoltán Kodály, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Orff, and Giovanni Pergolesi. In 1989, the group won first place at the Ukrainian competition, and in 1992 they became a diploma winner of the First International H. Hotkevych Kobza Art Competition.
He is the author of arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, collections published in the series "Library of amateur music" (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989).
He recorded more than 30 gramophone records of music of various genres performed by the Dumka Chapel and the State Bandura Choir of Ukraine with the participation of Petro Bilynyk, Borys Hmyrya, Ivan Kozlovsky, and Diana Petrynenko. He made many audio recordings for the "Golden Fund" of Ukrainian Radio.
He has made more than 400 recordings performed by the Ukrteleradio choir (the finale of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Seasons Haydn's "The Seasons", Andriy Shtoharenko's "My Ukraine", works by Oleksandr Bilash, Kostyantyn Dankevych, Lesia Dychko, Herman Zhukovsky, Vitaliy Kyreiko, Pylyp Kozytskyi, Anatoliy Kos-Anatolskyi, Mykola Leontovych, Mykola Lysenko, Stanislav Liudkevych, Borys Liatoshynsky, Filaret and Mykola Koles, Heorhiy and Platon Mayborod, Lev Revutsky, Yevhen Stankovych, Yakiv Stepovyi, Kyrylo Stetsenko, and Ihor Shamo); 300 works performed by soloists and ensembles, 30 choral recordings for films shot at the National Film Studio named after O. Dovzhenko. Dovzhenko National Film Studio.
He died in 2004 in Kyiv.
