Ukrainian composer, musicologist and conductor.
Biography.
Born as the son of Mykhailo Sonevytskyi and Olha (née Lasovska).
He studied at the Lysenko Higher Music Institute in Lviv, the Music Academy in Vienna, and the State Music Academy in Munich (diploma, 1950); Doctor of Philosophy at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (1961). Since 1950, he has lived in the United States, co-founding and teaching at the Ukrainian Music Institute in New York (1959-61, its director).
Conductor of the Dumka Choir in New York, Trembita in Newark, and the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Choir in Cleveland. Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome (1971-1980), full member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the United States and the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society, member of the American Musicological Society and the Association of American Composers, founder and director of the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Hunter (1983-2003).
Works: Opera "Zorya", ballet "Cinderella", cantata "Love Ukraine" to lyrics by Sosiura, for piano: Variations, Triptych, Miniatures, collection of plays "Seasons" (1999), piano concerto "Solos" (1993), "Spiritual Works" (Liturgy, Memorial Service and Canti Spirituali, 1999) solo and choral works on the words of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lina Ukrainka. Franko, L. Ukrainka, E. Malaniuk, B. Antonych, V. Symonenko, etc.; about 30 musical arrangements for the theater for Lesya Ukrainka's drama "Forest Song", Ivan Franko's "Ivan Vyshensky", etc, arrangements of folk songs. Publications: "Artem Vedel and his musical heritage" (1966), "Compositional heritage of Nestor Nyzhankivskyi" (1973), "Dictionary of Ukrainian Composers" (1995), "Myroslav Skala-Starytskyi" (2000); editor of the 2nd edition of "History of Ukrainian Music" by M. Hrinchenko, "We are going to battle" (songs by Roman Kupchynskyi), articles and reviews in the press.
In 2011, Ihor Sonevytsky's archive was transferred to the Lviv Institute of Liturgical Sciences of the Ukrainian Catholic University (now the Institute of Church Music).
