Ivan Semenovych Yuziuk (1 April 1939, Semakivtsi village, Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region) is a Ukrainian conductor, Honoured Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine (2009).
Biography.
Graduated from the Music and Pedagogical Department of Kolomyia Pedagogical College, Mykola Kolessa class of Lviv Conservatory in 1966.
From 1966 to 1984, he was a conductor at the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he took part in the staging of 70 opera and ballet performances (24 of them he conducted independently). He has written and directed his own works for children (the musical fairy tale "Merry Gifts" and the opera-fairy tale "Three Fat Men" based on his own libretto by Yuri Olesha).
From 1989 to 2005, he was the chief conductor and artistic director of the Lviv Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra, with which he performed more than 300 symphonic and other works. He toured Russia, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, and participated in many international festivals in Poland.
Since 1974, he has been working at the Department of Choral and Opera and Symphony Conducting (since 1993 - Professor), and since 2001 he has also been the Head of the Department of Opera Training at the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy in Lviv. Among his students (more than 50) are many conductors, including chief conductors of theatres in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Russia, and directors of other musical groups. I. Yuziuk is the author of many scientific articles, methodological works, and reviews of theatre performances.
