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Lesia Dychko in 2014

Lesia Vasylivna Dychko (Ukrainian: Леся Василівна Дичко), originally Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko (born 24 October 1939) is a Ukrainian composer and music educator.

Life

Early years and education

Lesia Vasylivna Dychko was born Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko in Kyiv on 24 October 1939. She graduated from the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum in 1959 with a degree in music theory. In 1964 she graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in composition, studying with the composers Konstantyn Dankevych and Borys Lyatoshynsky. In 1971 she studied with the Soviet composer Nikolai Peiko.[1]

Career

After completing her studies, Dychko worked as a music teacher.[1] She lectured at the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute from 1965 to 1966, at the Kyiv Arts Academy [uk] from 1972 to 1994, at the Studio of the Honoured Ukrainian State Bandura Players Choir [uk] beginning in 1965.

In 1993, Dychko took a position at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music,[1] She became a professor there at in 2009.[2] She has lectured as a visiting professor at other universities.

Prizes and awards

In 1969, Dychko won first prize at a Moscow young composers’ competition. She received the Mykola Ostrovsky LKSMU Republican Award [uk] in 1970, and the Shevchenko National Prize in 1989. She became an Honoured Representative of the Arts of the Ukraine [uk] in 1982, and a People's Artist of Ukraine in 1995.[1]

Works

Dychko has been associated with the Neofolkloric Wave [uk].[2] Dychko incorporates elements of Ukrainian folk music in to her works, incorporating neo-folklorist music. Most of her compositions are choral works in which she reinterprets paintings and old folklore texts.[1]

Dychko composes sacred music.She was one of the first Soviet composers to compose church music.[2] Her output includes film soundtracks. She composes for orchestral, choral and instrumental performance including flute, violin, organ and piano.

Incomplete list of compositions

(Information from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John, eds. (2001). "Dychko, Lesya (Lyudmila) Vasil′yevna". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.‎
  2. ^ a b c d e "Dychko, Lesia". Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2023.

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