Oleh Ivanovych Tsyhylyk (* 3 April 1939, Koropuzh) is a Ukrainian singer (baritone), conductor, teacher, Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, PhD in Art History. Lecturer at the Lviv Conservatory, director of the men's chapel "Surma" and the chapel "Trembita". Organiser (1988) and artistic director of the Gomin Chapel.
Short biography
His father took part in the village church choir, was its elder for some time, and led the village drama group. In the early Soviet times, Ivan Tsyhylyk was a super-district leader of the OUN. His cousin betrayed the hiding place, and his father and a friend shot themselves to avoid surrendering to the KGB. Oleh was left a complete orphan - his mother had died two years earlier; he was raised by his grandfather.
In 1967, he graduated from the Lviv State Conservatory. Since that year, he has been working as a teacher, choir director, and head of the conducting and choral department of the Drohobych Music School, and led the Legend Choir at the city's House of Culture.
In Lviv, during 1977-1986, he worked in a number of groups: the Conservatory Students Choir, the Folk Choir of the Polytechnic Institute, the Folk Men's Choir "Surma", and the Academic Choir "Kameniar" of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv.
In 1983-1986, he was a teacher of vocal and conducting, head of the choir class at the Faculty of Music and Pedagogy of the Ivan Franko Pedagogical Institute in Drohobych, and the head of the folk choir "Legend" of the city's House of Culture.
In 1986-1988, he was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Trembita Choir.
Since 1988, he has been a lecturer and director of the academic choir of teachers of the Lviv Music and Pedagogical College named after F. Kolessa and the men's choir "Homin" organised by him.
1990 - Senior Lecturer, 1993 - Associate Professor of the Department of Choral Conducting at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory, and at the same time the director of the training choir of students of the Lviv Music College named after S. Liudkevych.
In 2000-2001, he directed the choir and taught vocals at the Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit.
2001-2003 - Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Yevhen Vakhniak Honoured Choir "Boyan".
Since 2003, he has been a teacher of solo singing and conducting and the director of the Lviv Municipal Choir "Homin".
In 1990-2005, he was the head of the regional branch of the Mykola Leontovych Choral Society, a member of the Coordinating Council of the All-Ukrainian Music Union, chairman and jury member of many choral and vocal music competitions.
2002-2004 - state scholarship holder.
Since 2008, he has been a professor at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Academy.
He conducted combined choirs:
1996 - on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Union of Brest, Rome,
2000 - 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ, Zarvanytsia,
2001 - on the occasion of the Pope's visit to Ukraine,
2007 - at the opening of the monument to S. Bandera in Lviv.
Among his students are ethnomusicologist Mykhailo Khai and Mykhailo Malafiy, the winner of the singing competition in Karlovy Vary in December 2013.
