Ukrainian composer and poet. Member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine (until 1994), the National League of Ukrainian Composers.
Biography.
Mykola Poloz was born in 1936 in the village of Smolyanykivka, now in the Sumy district of Sumy region.
After graduating from high school, he studied at the Sumy Machine-Building College (now the Machine-Building College of Sumy State University).
In 1960, he graduated from the Luhansk Music College.
In 1965, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition. He was a student of Borys Liatoshynskyi. He worked as an editor of the Ukrainian Radio Committee, was an artistic director of various artistic ensembles. Since 1973, he was the conductor of the Kyiv Association of Music Ensembles.
He died in Kyiv on September 27, 2016.
Creative work
He is the author of symphonic (including seven symphonies and seven concertos for symphony orchestra), chamber, instrumental, choral, vocal, works, arrangements of folk songs, music for films, and numerous poetic works.
Some of his works are influenced by jazz.
Works
Musical Moment for violin and piano (1960)
Variations for symphony orchestra (1961)
Symphonies: I (1962), II (1965), III (1968), IV (1972), V ("Ocean", 1976), VI, VII, VIII ("Alexandra")
String Quartet (1963)
Trio for violin, viola and cello (1964)
Triumphal Overture (1967)
Monodrama "The Horse" for soloist and symphony orchestra (words by V. Mayakovsky) (1972)
"Procession" for cello and piano (1972)
Concerts: I (1973), II (1974), III (1975), IV (1976), V, VI, VII ("Paradoxical")
Choirs on the words of poets and his own texts
Music for films
Preludes, etudes, songs, arrangements of folk songs
