Dmytro Hnatyuk

Dmytro Hnatyuk

Dmytro Hnatyuk (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Миха́йлович Гнатю́к) (born 28 March 1925) is a Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of The Supreme Council of Ukraine.

Biography

Dmytro Hnatyuk was born on March 28, 1925 in the village of Mămăești, Sipeniţ district, Cernăuţi County, Romania. He graduated from the Kiev Conservatory in 1951 as an opera and chamber singer.

He was a singer at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre appearing as a soloist in many songs. In 1979, Hnatyuk graduated from the State Institute and of Theatrical Arts as a Director (rezhyser). From 1951 to 1988, he worked as an opera singer and from 1975 also as a director of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet as well working as a trainer of the National Academic Theatre. In 1988, he became the director of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Hnatyuk sang in many operas by Ukrainian and worldwide composers.

Hnatyuk was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 1998 to 2002. He had been a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (8th–10th sessions, 1972–1984). Dmytro Hnatyuk was elected the head of the Musical Society of Ukraine, as the head of the Kiyvan Theatrical Society, as a member of the Committee of State Shevchenko Prizes, the Committee of Defense and Peace and others. Member of the Board of the All Ukrainian Fund of Recreating Memorials of the Historical-Architectural Heritage in the name of O. Honchar, a member of the Board of the Fund of Influence of Development of Arts; the Committee “Ukraine-Europe”.

Awards

Hnatyuk is a Peoples' Artist of Ukraine, was a People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, an "Academic" of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, and a professor of the Tchaikovsky Music Academy. Most recently, he was awarded with the Hero of Ukraine, the highest decoration of the Ukrainian state.

External links

• Dmytro Hnatyuk «Золотий Фонд української естради»(Ukrainian)
• Biography of Hnatyuk (Ukrainian)
• Info from Pisni.org (Ukrainian)

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