Mykola Mykolayovych Hobdych (born March 28, 1961, in Bytkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian choral conductor, known for being the founder and director of the Kyiv Chamber Choir. [1] He founded the Kyiv Chamber Choir in 1990 with alumni of the Kiev State Conservatory. [2]
Ukrainian music covers diverse and multiple component elements of the music that is found in the Western and Eastern musical civilization. It also has a very strong indigenous Slavic and Christian uniqueness whose elements were used among the areas that surround modern Ukraine.
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic.
Alexander Koshetz was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world. His name is sometimes transliterated as Oleksandr Koshyts.
Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, and teacher. His music was inspired by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian National Music School. Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music, ranging from original compositions to church music to elaborate arrangements of folk music.
Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became a Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and head of the Music section of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.
Yakiv Mykhailovych Yatsynevych was a prominent Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works.
Mykola Mykolayovych Morozyuk is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder.
Mykola Mykolayovych Vilinsky was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer who held senior chairs at the Odesa Conservatory and later the Kyiv Conservatory. He wrote articles on Ukrainian and Moldovan music, and was a music critic and an expert on the works of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.
Victoria Vita Polyova is a Ukrainian composer.
"Prayer for Ukraine" is a patriotic Ukrainian hymn published in 1885, which became a spiritual anthem of Ukraine. The text was written by Oleksandr Konysky, and the music was composed by Mykola Lysenko, first with a children's choir in mind. The song became the regular closing hymn in services of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and other churches. It gained national significance when it was performed by mass choirs during the Ukrainian War of Independence in 1917–1920. The hymn was intended to be an official spiritual anthem of Ukraine. It has closed sessions of oblast councils, and has been performed at major national functions.
The Kharkiv Philharmonic Society is a leading musical organization in Ukraine, promoting classical music, contemporary music, and Ukrainian folk music.
The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the musical setting of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Mykola Leontovych. Consistent with Orthodox tradition, in which service is sung exclusively a cappella, the piece is set for unaccompanied choir and soloist. It was first performed in the Mykolaiv Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on May 22, 1919, with Leontovych himself conducting.
Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko was a Ukrainian academician historian and law professor, important public and political figure. He was a temporary Otaman of Council of Ministers, minister of Education, and director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Mykola Volodymyrovych Shaparenko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ukrainian Premier League club FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukraine national team.
The Kyiv Chamber Choir is a chamber choir based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The choir was founded in December 1990 by conductor Mykola Hobdych. It has performed thousands of concerts in at least 21 countries. The choir also records music, releasing over 40 compact disks. More than half of these compositions were recorded for the first time. The choir has performed at renowned American venues such as Carnegie Hall, the National Cathedral, and the White House. Kyiv Chamber Choir sings much of its music a cappella. Its repertoire includes well-known classical compositions, but also that of Ukrainian composers such as Mykola Lysenko, Mykola Leontovych, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Artem Vedel, and Mykola Diletsky.
Bytkiv is a rural settlement in Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Pasichna rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was 4,310.
Mykola Borysovych Makhynia was a Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach. He is Merited Master of Sports of the Soviet Union (1946) and Merited Coach of the Ukrainian SSR (1962), the author of the first goal for Dynamo Kyiv in the Soviet Top League.
Mykhailo Verykivsky was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher. He was an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 1944.
The Khreshchatyk Choir is a musical ensemble based in Kyiv, Ukraine, named for the central street of the city.
Nina Oleksandrivna Herasymova-Persydska was a Ukrainian musicologist, Doctor of Art Studies (1978), and Honored Artist of Ukraine (1997). Author of more than 140 works, including monographs on the history and theory of part song in Ukraine and Russia.
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