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Sparynskyi Oleksandr Yosypovych

1954

Ukrainian composer-arranger, musicologist, producer. Member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.

Biography.

Studied at the Music School #2 in Kyiv, then at the K. Stetsenko Music School for Adults. Graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute named after M. Gorky (Faculty of Music and Pedagogy).

Author of music for 35 films, including animated films, 52 theatrical performances and musicals, operetta, folk opera, choral, electronic, characteristic instrumental music, oratorios, author's transcriptions of Ukrainian authenticity in the genre of World music.

He is the author of almost two hundred songs: children's, ensemble, pop, rock and chamber ballads, folklore stylizations.

Producer of a number of Ukrainian bands, organizer of concerts, art lectures, creative reports around the world to popularize Ukrainian art abroad in the UK, France, Belgium, Australia, Holland, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, and China.

Music producer of the Kobzar Center for Festivals, Mass Events and Concert Programs, a structure that organizes and stages city and national mass entertainment events: Ukraine's Independence Day, Victory Day, Kyiv Days, New Year and Christmas performances, festivals and ceremonial events, folklore festivals, government concerts, etc.

Mr. Sparynsky's author's discography includes 13 CDs, one DVD and 7 MCs; including multimedia discs:

"Christmas 2000" - the world's first multimedia encyclopedia of Ukrainian New Year and Christmas holidays.
"Come Out, Freckles!" - the world's first multimedia disk about the Spring cycle of celebrations in Ukraine; at the same time, it is the first example of a reading of Ukrainian folklore in the genre of World music with the involvement of leading Ukrainian performers.
"The Magic of Kupala Night" is an author's interpretation of traditional musical and ethnographic heritage on the border of folklore, avant-garde, jazz, electronic and contemporary music.

She lives and works in Kyiv. She has two daughters.

Her hobbies include information technology, literature, cinema, and sports (cycling, swimming).
Creative work.

Songs "Sunflower", "Golden Gate Carnival", "Matioli", "Sunflower"; oratorios "We are a big Family on Earth", "Blessing of St. Michael"; instrumental miniatures "Mimirichi", "Walk"; suites "Come out, freckles!", "Magic of Kupala Night".
Cinematographic works

Author of music for films:

"Zhenka the Musketeer" (1983)
"The Night Visitor (1984)
"Workers' Dynasty" (1985)
"By the hands of the young (1986)
"Dangerous Games (1986)
"Mosaic (1989)
"The Rounded One" (1992)
"Lip's Airplane (2000)
"The War of the Apples and the Caterpillar (2004)
"House for a Snail (2005)
"About a Cat that Fell from the Sky (2005)
"What Doesn't Happen in the Forest (2006)
"Maybe" (2007)
"The Empress's Secret Guard (2008)
"My Years..." (2013)
"The Trumpeter (2013)
"I am a Teapot (2016)

Author-director, composer and film producer:

"The Interrupted Jazz of Yuri Novikov" (2010)
"The Offering" (2010)
"Transcarpathia through the ages (2011)
"Easter Meetings of the Kyiv Camerata (2012)
"London benefit for Igor Pereverziev" (2013)
"The Hedgehog in Love" (2015)
"Our Excellency" (2015) and others.

Awards
Certificate of Achievement of the International Composition Competition "Unisong" (USA, 1999); Diploma of the Kyiv City Hall (2001); Honorary Diplomas from the Association of Ukrainians and the Ukrainian Church of Great Britain (2004); letters of appreciation from: Vatican City (2001); Library of Congress (2003, 2005); Ukrainian Catholic University (2005); Ukrainian studies institutes in Denmark, Canada, Australia, France, and the United States.

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