Ukrainian musician and composer known for his marches for military and brass bands. The most famous of them are "Simon Petliura" and "Stepan Bandera".
Biography.
He was born in Rivera, in a family of immigrants from Volhynia, which was then part of Poland. In 1954, they returned to their homeland. He began his musical education in 1958 in the brass band of school No. 8 in Bakhmut, led by Oleksandr Tokarev. In 1962, he continued his studies at the Artemivsk State Music School (now the Bakhmut College of Arts) in the class of teachers Vasyl Orlov and Ivan Lavryk. In 1967, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served in a military brass band. From 1970 to 1975, he studied at the Lviv Conservatory (percussion instruments, class of Oleksandr Borzenkov). He graduated from the Conservatory with honors. From 1971 to 2001 he was a member of the Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
Biography.
His works are dedicated to the heroes of the Liberation Movement. As one of the few prominent composers of military music of the 1990s-2000s, Voytyuk's works are included in the rare, purely marching, in terms of content and number of CDs dedicated to the genre, collection "Ukrainian Anthems and Marches".
Marches:
Simon Petliura
Stepan Bandera
Yevhen Konovalets
Ivan Vyhovsky
General Chuprynka
and others.
