Yuriy Rostyslavovych Sayenko (* 4 May 1955, Lviv) is a Ukrainian composer, Honoured Artist of Ukraine (2009).
Biography.
In 1974, he graduated from the Solomiya Krushelnytska Secondary Specialised Music Boarding School, majoring in piano, and in 1979 - from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory. He worked in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod and Rivne Philharmonic.
In 1988, he became a member of the studio theatre "Do not be sad!". In this collective, he wrote a lot of his own music and arrangements for the soloists of "Ne Zhurys". He toured with this theatre in many countries around the world. Since the early 1990s, he has been composing music for Lviv theatres: the M. Zankovetska Theatre, the Municipal Theatre named after L. Ukrainka, the First Ukrainian Theatre for Children and Youth, the Young Theatre in Kyiv, Rivne, Khmelnytsky and Drohobych theatres.
He has composed music for feature films and documentaries: "Oxygen Hunger" (directed by A. Donchyk); "The Right to Hope" (directed by T. Tkachenko); "When You Don't Expect It at All" (directed by T. Magar); "Far and Near" (directed by A. Gurna), a Ukrainian-Polish project, etc.
His creative works also include the symphonic suite "Christmas Fantasies", "Fantasies on the Themes of Melodies by Bilozor", and the musical "I Believe" based on the lyrics by B. Stelmakh. Audio albums: "Nocturne for a Son", "Favourite Poems" (a project of the publishing house "A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ha"), "Angel of God...", "How a Man Travelled to God", "God was Born on a Sleigh", "Alphabet" (a project of the publishing house "A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ha"), "Alphabet for the Blind", "Flowers in the Dew".
In recent years, Yurii Saienko has been working as the head of the musical department of the First Ukrainian Theatre for Children and Youth in Lviv. He has composed music for 16 performances of this theatre.
