Ukrainian composer, Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine since 1983.
Biography
Viktor Stepurko was born on December 22, 1951 in the village of Mykolayivka, Blyzniukiv district, Kharkiv region.) In 1959, he moved with his family to Shabelkivka, Kramatorsk City Council, Donetsk region.
Viktor was fond of music since early childhood. He sang in the school choir. He graduated from an evening music school and sang in the choir of the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant.
In 1969, after graduating from high school, Viktor Stepurko entered the conducting and choral department of the Donetsk Music School.
In 1975-1981, Stepurko studied at the Kyiv Conservatory. He graduated from the conducting and choral (class of Lev Venediktov) and composing (class of Myroslav Skoryk) faculties.
Since 1981, he has been working as a teacher of music theory at the Khmelnytsky Music School.
In 1982, the Stepurko family moved to the village of Kopyliv, Makariv district, Kyiv region, where Viktor Ivanovych became a teacher at the Makariv Children's Music School. Since 1983, he has been living in Makariv, Kyiv region, teaching at the Makariv Children's Music School.
Since 1997, he has been working as an artist.
Since 2004, he has been a senior lecturer, then an associate professor at the National Academy of Management Personnel of Culture and Arts (Kyiv).
From the day of its foundation to the present day, V. Stepurko has been the director of the choir ensemble "Sviat-Kolo" of the Makariv District House of Culture, an honorary citizen of the Makariv district.
He is a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Festival "Musical Premieres of the Season".
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Dumka Choir at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
Member of the jury of the Mykola Lysenko Prize, member of the board of the Kyiv City Organization of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
On February 9, 2012, the list of winners of the 2012 Shevchenko Prize was announced. Viktor Stepurko won in the nomination "Musical Art" (for the psalmody "Monologues of the Ages" for mixed choir and solo instruments).
Biography.
The composer's oeuvre is voluminous and rich - from song genres and music for children (the opera "Music Shop") to symphonic and operatic scores (concerto for flute and symphony orchestra, symphonic picture "Islands of Childhood"). He composed seven symphonic works.
The composer's choral works became very popular.
Choirs on the words of Taras Shevchenko:
"Water Flows" (1984),
"Over the Dnipro Saga" (1986),
Choral cycle: "My Dawn", "Dawn, the Edge of the Sky is Burning", "I'm Scared to Death", "Oh Oaks, Dark Grove" (1989).
Choirs on religious texts:
"Eternal Memory". For mixed unaccompanied choir (1995);
"Christmas Troparion". For mixed unaccompanied choir (2002);
"Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom". For mixed unaccompanied choir (2011);
"Missa movere" (2013) for mixed choir and string orchestra in memory of K. Berdennikova;
"Five spiritual choirs": 1. "Our Father"; 2. "Supplicatory Litany"; 3. "Sing to the Lord"; 4. "Let God rise again"; 5. "I believe". For soloists and unaccompanied mixed choir (1985-1997);
"Theological dogmas of the seventeenth century". For choir and orchestra (2003);
"Ukrainian cantatas of the seventeenth century" by Dmytro Savych Tuptal. For mixed choir and symphony orchestra in five parts (2008);
"Monologues of the Ages". For mixed choir and solo instruments. On the texts of the Psalms (Bible) in 14 movements (2013);
Others:
"Confessional Liturgy" in memory of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. For reader, symphony orchestra and organ (2004).
Awards and honors
Winner of the Lev Revutsky Prize (1989).
Winner of the Ivan Ohienko Prize (1998).
Laureate of the All-Ukrainian Competition "Spiritual Psalms" (2000).
Chevalier of the Order of St. Volodymyr, third class (2000).
Laureate of the Borys Liatoshynsky Prize (2002).
Laureate of the Leo Vitoshynsky International Music Prize (2004).
Laureate of the Mykola Lysenko Prize (2005).
Winner of the Artem Vedel Kyiv Prize (2008).
Honored Artist of Ukraine (2008).
National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine (2012)
