Myroslaw Skoryk

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Мирослав Михайлович Скорик
Transl. : Myroslav Mychajlovyč Skoryk
Transcr. : Myroslaw Mychajlowytsch Skoryk
Myroslaw Skoryk, 2014

Myroslaw Mychajlowytsch Skoryk (born July 13, 1938 in Lwów , † June 1, 2020 in Kiev ) was a Ukrainian composer .

Life

Skoryk's parents studied at the University of Vienna and his grandmother was Salome Kruschelnytska's sister . His brother was a member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS , who fled to Australia after the end of World War II .

Myroslaw Skoryk attended the music school in Lviv from 1945. In his family his father played the violin and his mother played the piano. From 1955 to 1960 Skoryk studied at the Lviv Conservatory with Adam Sołtys and Stanislaw Lyudkewytsch and from 1960 at the Moscow Conservatory with Dmitri Kabalewski . From 1964 he worked in Lviv, where he became a composition teacher at the Conservatory.

From 1960 Skoryk worked as a music teacher at the Kiev Conservatory . In 1987 he received the Taras Shevchenko Prize . In 1990 he worked for the first time in the USA and then in Australia . At the end of the 1990s he returned to Ukraine and from 1999 was again at the Music Academy of Ukraine as a professor for Ukrainian music history. On August 20, 2008 he received the title " Hero of Ukraine ". He was also awarded the title “ People's Artist of Ukraine ” and received the Ukrainian Order of Merit 1st Class in 2010 , having previously received the 2nd (2006) and 3rd (1998) grades.

He composed a ballet , seven partitas (including for string orchestra), ten violin concertos, two violoncello concertos, chamber music works, piano pieces, choral works, songs as well as music for plays and films (such as that for the 1964 film Fire Horses ).

Web links

Commons : Myroslav Skoryk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Oksana Goncharuk (Оксана Гончарук): Умер легендарный композитор Мирослав Скорик. In: vesti.ua. June 1, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 (Russian).
  2. Irina Klimenko (Ірина Клименко): Кафедра історії української музики та музичної фольклористики. In: knmau.com.ua . Archived from the original on February 24, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2020 (Ukrainian).
  3. Указ Президента України: Про присвоєння М. Скорику звання Герой України. In: rada.gov.ua. August 20, 2008, accessed June 2, 2020 (Ukrainian).
  4. Указ Президента України: Про відзначення державними нагородами України. In: rada.gov.ua. February 8, 2010, accessed June 2, 2020 (Ukrainian).