Ukrainian singer (baritone), vocal teacher. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1943).
Biography.
He was born on 7 (August 19), 1893 in the village of Stara Osota (now Oleksandrivskyi district, Kirovohrad region). In 1915-1919, he worked as a singing teacher in Chyhyryn, and in 1922 he directed a choir in Cherkasy.
In 1923-1927, he studied at the Kyiv Conservatory: solo singing in the class of Professor Olena Muravyova, and at the same time at the conducting faculty. From 1926 he was a soloist at the Kyiv Opera House, and from 1927 - at the Odesa Opera House.
From 1927 he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory at the Department of Solo Singing, from 1939-1963 he was the Head of the Department of Solo Singing, and a professor from 1939.
In 1941-1943 he was evacuated to Bashkiria. From 1942 he worked at the Kyiv Conservatory, which was located in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). In 1944 he moved to Kyiv. In 1946, he became a member of the CPSU.
Author of the theoretical work Reflections on Voice (Kyiv, 1979). He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and medals.
He died on March 17, 1983. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.
Pedagogical activity
He brought up a galaxy of singers: Vira Borysenko, L. Maslennikova, Halyna Sholina, Eleonora Tomm, O. Yatsenko, Nina Honcharenko, Mykhailo Shevchenko, Vira Liubymova, Pavlo Karmaliuk, Renata Babak, M. Shostak, Vira Bahatska, I. Vilinska, Vladylen Hrytsiuk, Ostap Darchuk, A. Bakanova, Vasyl Bokoch, O. Arkhypov, Vitalii Zhmudenko, and Viktor Kurin.
In memory of
memorial plaque
A marble memorial plaque was installed in Kyiv, in classroom 34 of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, where Dometiy Yevtushenko worked.
