He began his career as an instrumentalist while studying at the R. Glier Kyiv State Music College (class of I. Pendyshchuk, clarinet).
He was awarded the first prize at two Republican competitions for young wind instrument performers (1989, 1990) and the All-Union Jazz Festival (1989, clarinet, piano, keyboard) for his own compositions.
In 1990, as a student of the R. Glière Kyiv State Music University, he was sent to Poland, where he gave solo performances at the Krakow Academy of Music.
In 1998, he graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine with a degree in symphony orchestra and musical theatre conducting from the class of the outstanding Ukrainian maestro and founder of our theatre, People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor Yevhen Dushchenko.
Since then, he has been conductor of the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth and, at the same time, a conducting teacher and director of the student brass band of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
Since June 2012, he has been the Chief Conductor, and since September 2013, he has been the conductor of the theatre.
The conductor's theatre repertoire includes operas La Traviata by G. Verdi, King Drozdoborod by Y. Shevchenko, ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker by P. Tchaikovsky, Scheherazade to music by M. Rimsky-Korsakov, and The Rite of Spring by M. Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov, Chopin's Chopiniana, Carnival of the Animals to the music of Saint-Saëns, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf to the music of Prokofiev, Yuri Rusinov's Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling by O. Petrova, I. Tseslyukevich, A. Mykyta, Mowgli by O. Hradsky, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by B. Pavlovsky, Barmaley and Aibolyt by Y. Shevchenko, The Vision of Rose by O. Rodin; children's opera fairy tales The Postman Bunny by I. Yakushenko, Ivasyk-Telesyk or the Witch's Trap by I. Shcherbakov. Shcherbakov, The Adventures of Pinocchio by O. Bilash, Magic Music by M. Minkov, How the Cossacks Tamed the Serpent and The Enchanted Chumak by I. Poklad, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Story of Kai and Gerda and Twelve Months by S. Banevich.
He made his debut as a conductor-director in 2001 with the first performance of M. Rauchwerger's opera Little Red Riding Hood on the Ukrainian stage.
He is the conductor of the ballet May Night by Yevhen Stankovych (2015), musicals Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog by V. Nazarov (2017), Santa's Factory by P. Tabakov (2018), symphonic and vocal symphonic concert programmes Classics that are Always with Us (2004), Symphonic Extravaganza (2007), Pearls of Musical Classics (2008), Symphonic Alphabet for Children and Their Parents (2011).
As part of the Family Theatre project, he directed a one-act performance based on Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel.
He is the author of the arrangement and orchestration of the musical "The Enchanted Chumak" by I. Poklad.
Conducted opera and symphony concerts during the theatre's tours in Ukraine, Spain, Portugal and during the Xth Anniversary Opera Festival in Pärnu (Estonia).
In 2007, in Portimao (Portugal), under the direction of Yevhen Voronko, the company performed the Nutcracker ballet with the participation of the Ballet de Madrid troupe of the legendary dancer and choreographer Alicia Alonso.
In the spring of 2012, at the Detroit Opera House (USA), he conducted Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake with the world-famous dancer and choreographer Angel Corella and the Barcelona Ballet (Spain).
As a conductor of the symphony orchestra, he constantly and fruitfully collaborates on stage and in recording studios with the stars of contemporary Ukrainian pop music. Some of the most striking creative projects in this genre that took place with the participation of Yevhen Voronko include
a performance by the Ukrainian singer Ruslana in her own concert programme "Wild Dances" at the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv in 2005;
repeated performances with the rock band Okean Elzy;
a benefit concert of composer Ruslan Kvinta with Sofia Rotaru, Iryna Bilyk, Oleksandr Ponomaryov, Zlata Ognevich and other Ukrainian pop stars;
anniversary concert of the virtuoso violinist and pop diva Assia Akhat at the National Palace of Arts "Ukraine" and her solo concert at the National Opera of Ukraine with video recording for one of the largest TV channels in the United States of America - RBS;
participation in the multi-part television show "Stars in Opera" on 1+1 TV channel, where the conductor was united by creative cooperation with such bright personalities as People's Artist of Ukraine and soloist of the Vienna Opera Victoria Lukyanets, legendary Italian singer Roberto Loretti, composer Alexei Rybnikov, Ukrainian jazz star and future Eurovision Song Contest winner Jamala, singers Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Valery Kharchyshyn, Sergey Penkin, members of the band B-2, and others.
He staged the rock opera Orpheus & Eurydice Forever, which was performed in 2016-2019 at the National Palace of Arts "Ukraine", repeatedly at the National Opera of Ukraine, Odesa National Opera, Lviv National Opera to sell-out crowds and twice at one of the most prestigious stages in the world - Dubai Opera.
Yevhen Voronko is a member of the jury of the Kyiv Pectoral Theatre Award (2016, 2017, 2018), which has been promoting the recognition of the best achievements in the field of professional theatre in all areas for many years.
