Hennadii Petrovych Tatarchenko (born 17 May 1951 in Snizhne, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian composer.
Biography.
From the age of six, he learned to play the violin and sang in a choir.
He studied at the Conservatory, interrupted his studies after the fourth year and in 1975 became a guitarist with the Kobza Vocal Group.
He worked as a studio musician and arranger at the Recording House at the State Television and Radio Committee, where he wrote backing tracks for singers.
Creative work
In 1984, Nazariy Yaremchuk sang Tatarchenko's song "Polisyanochka". The studio band led by Tatarchenko recorded most of the songs of the creative alliance of Vladimir Bystryakov and Valery Leontyev.
Valeriy Leontyev sang Tatarchenko's songs "Mirage", "Arena" (1986), "White Crow" (1987), Sofia Rotaru sang his songs "Music of the Chapel", "Funny Jalopy", "White Daffodils".
After graduating from the conservatory, Tatarchenko worked with Yuriy Rybchynsky on the Russian rock opera White Crow, which became the first Ukrainian rock opera released on a disc.
He is the author of the music for the animated film "Come Back, Kapitoshka!" (1989).
