Vadym Zhuravytskyi (December 3, 1962, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian composer and teacher. Laureate of the Revutsky Republican Prize (1998), International Competition of Works for Wind Instruments in Rivne (1997). Member of the NUKU (1990). Graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory (composition class of Y. Ishchenko, 1986) and completed his assistantship at the Conservatory (1995). Since 1986 he has been a UWC reference officer, since 1989 - a teacher at the Kyiv Children's Music School No. 3; since 1993 - at the Department of Composition of the Kyiv Conservatory (NMAU). Since 2007 he has been working in Germany (Stuttgart).
Discography
CDS.
Mozart W. A. Sonata for violin and piano: N. Sivachenko (violin), V. Zhuravitsky (piano) - Kyiv, 2007;
Vadym Zhuravitsky. Symphony for strings, Sonata for viola, flute and piano, vocal cycle based on the words of S. Vikman "The Last Ray." - Kyiv, 2007.
Works
for symphony orchestra - Symphony No. 1 (1987), Concerto for violin and orchestra (1989), Piano Concerto with orchestra (1995);
for chamber orchestra - Symphony No. 2 (2007), Contra spem spero (1992), Eclogue for flute, harp and chamber orchestra (1991), Ragtime (1997), Three Ukrainian Songs for soprano and chamber orchestra (2002);
chamber music - "Three Songs about Dead Kings" for soprano and string quartet (1995), Trio for clarinet, viola and cello (1991), Trio for flute, bassoon and piano (1997); Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn (1995); "Dark Leaves" for chamber ensemble (2004);
sonatas - for trumpet and piano (1986), viola, flute and piano (1989), bass clarinet and piano (1993), solo violin (1993), violin and piano (2003), for cello and piano (2000);
for piano - Prelude and Passacaglia (1987), 5 pieces for piano "Flowing Music" (1997), "Good Swing Buddy", jazz, pieces for piano and 2 pianos (1990), 15 two-voice invocations (2001), 10 jazz pieces for children;
for harp - "Forest calls" (1991);
for unaccompanied choir - "Choral Diptych" (1988, words by L. Kostenko and W. Whitman), "Three Psalms of David" (1992, words by T. Shevchenko), choral diptych "Chumacki Pisni" (1993), "Choral Diptych" (1996, based on Ukrainian folk songs);
vocal cycles - "Sensitive Strings", words by L. Kostenko, for mezzo-soprano and piano (1987), "Three Poems by A. Akhmatova" for soprano and piano (1988), "The Last Ray", words by S. Wickman, for soprano and piano (2001), "Three Poems by O. Mandelstam" for soprano and piano (2004); arrangements of folk songs; music for children.
