Pavlo Pecheniha-Uhlytskyi (20 June 1892, Pecheniha, Kharkiv province - † 2 July 1948, New York, USA) was a Ukrainian composer, double bassist and conductor, and teacher.
At the age of seven, he was admitted to the choir of the cathedral in Kharkiv. In 1908, he became an assistant conductor. At that time, he wrote his first work, The Cherubic Song. Then he was accepted to the city music school. The Kapellmeister helps him get into the Imperial Music School.
A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, his teachers included composer F. Yakymenko.
In 1914-1922 he taught at the conservatories of Krasnodar, St. Petersburg, and Rostov.
Since 1922 he lived in the United States, conducting various choirs and orchestras. In particular, at the American national radio company NBC.
In January 1939, he conducted a performance of the symphonic poem "Ukraine" at Carnegie Hall.
He is the author of:
opera "The Witch",
ballet "Legion",
symphonic poem "Ukraine",
"Heroic Cantata" - dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
romances on the words of Taras Shevchenko,
arrangements of folk songs.
