Ukrainian singer, conductor, composer, ethnographer.
Biography.
In 1917, he became a chorister in one of the bourgeois choirs in Kyiv. From 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian National Choir in Kyiv, from 1918 he was a member of the Ukrainian Republican Chapel, and from 1921 he was a member of the Ukrainian National Choir (assistant to Oleksandr Koshytsia).
After the Ukrainian National Choir disbanded in the summer of 1924, Lev Sorochynsky settled in Rochester, New York, where he began directing the church choir at the Cathedral of St. Cyril and Methodius and decided to create a Ukrainian community choir and mandolin orchestra at the school of the Free Cossacks Society.
Since 1926, he has been conducting Ukrainian choirs in the United States and Canada. He directed the Dukhnovych Choir in Cleveland.
Lev Sorochynsky died on January 31, 1963 and was buried in the cemetery in Oliphant, Pennsylvania, USA.
