Anatolii Fedorovych Ushkariov (* 5 February 1928, Leningrad - 2008), Ukrainian and Russian conductor, composer, teacher, Honoured Artist of Ukraine in 1965. He wrote operettas, comedies, oratorios, and suites.
In 1945 he graduated from the Moscow Choral School. In 1948-1951, he worked as a teacher at the Moscow Choir School.
In 1949-1951 he was also the conductor of the Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Choir.
In 1950, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire with a degree in conducting, with V. Sokolov and N. Amosov as his teachers.
1951-1956 - artist and chief conductor of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet troops in Romania.
In 1956-1962, he was the director of the Ukrainian Song and Dance Ensemble of the Donetsk Philharmonic, and in 1962-1965 - the Donbas Miners' Song and Dance Ensemble.
In 1965-1969, he was the artistic director of the Donetsk Regional Philharmonic and a lecturer at the Donetsk Music and Pedagogical Institute, and since 1968 he has been an associate professor.
In 1969-1973, he worked as the rector of the Astrakhan Conservatory.
In 1973-1975, he worked as a deputy director of Rosconcert.
Since 1973, he has been an associate professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatoire's Theoretical and Composition Department.
Since 1975, he has been working as the chief editor of the repertoire and editorial board of the Department of Musical Institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR. In 1973-1995 he taught at the Moscow Conservatoire.
His works include
operettas - Lyubushka (staged in 1985 in Syktyvkar),
"Don Cesar de Bazan (1987),
musical comedies - The Happiness of Vasilisa (Khabarovsk, 1982),
"The Miracle (Alyonky Tsvetochok), Barnaul, 1986,
oratorio for soloists, chorus and symphony orchestra "I sing glory to a woman", 1980, words by Vitaly Tatarinov,
cantatas: "Motherland", 1968, words by Viktor Bokov,
"Bread" - 1986, words by T. Georgiev,
for symphony orchestra - symphonies - First, 1985,
Second, 1987,
ballet suites: "Flowers of Ukraine", 1966,
"Towards the Dawn", 1966,
poem "Birch", 1968,
Concerto for piano and symphony orchestra,
"Concerto" for violins and symphony orchestra, 1969,
"String Quartet" - 1983,
for chamber orchestra - Concerto, 1977,
for brass band - march "Glory to the Hammer and Sickle" - 1977,
for an orchestra of folk instruments - Suite on the Theme of Cossack Songs, 1949,
for cello and piano - "Piece", 1970,
for domra and piano - "Two Pieces", 1976,
for piano - "Collection of Children's Pieces", 1964,
"Preludes", 1971,
for accordion - "Two Pieces",
for pop orchestra - "Fantasy",1 954,
"Guitars Sing" - 1975,
for voice and piano - romances based on lyrics by V. Zhukovsky and Alexander Yurlov,
for choirs - the cycle "My Russia" to the words of Soviet poets - 1972,
"Choral Poem about the Caucasus" - words by T. Zumakulova, 1985,
"Cycle to the words of Renaissance poets" - 1978,
to the words of A. Pushkin, V. Bokov, S. Kondaurov, V. Lavrov, A. Pryshelets, E. Letiuk,
collections of choirs for children - "Hello, Sun" - to poems by Russian classical poets, 10 poems, 1983,
"The Streams Are Ringing" - 20 choirs, to the words of P. Ladonshchikov, 1985,
songs to the words of Soviet poets, arrangements of Polish, Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Czech folk songs, musical fairy tales for children - "The Pompous Bunny" - after S. Mikhalkov, 1967,
"The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" by Alexander Pushkin, 1980.
In 1985, he composed music for the film-performance "Such a Strange Evening in the Family Circle".
Some of his published works are
"Madrigal: Choruses to Poems by Renaissance Poets", 1980,
"Fundamentals of Choral Writing: A Study Guide for Composers and Conductors - Choral Departments of Music Universities", 1982,
"Choral songs flying over Russia, songs and choruses, for choirs of different compositions unaccompanied and accompanied by accordion", 1983,
"I sing the glory of a woman! Lyrical oratorios, for soloists - soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed choir and piano" - 1985,
"First Quartet: for two violins, viola and cello", 1987,
