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Lesia Dychko

Corresponding member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Lesia (Liudmyla) Dychko

    born in 1939

Composer and Educator

    Corresponding member of the NAA of Ukraine (2009)

    Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1989)

    People's Artist of Ukraine (1995)

    Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1982)

Lesia (Liudmyla) Dychko is a Ukrainian composer, educator, and public figure. Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1982). People's Artist of Ukraine (1995). Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1989). Chevalier of the Order of St Volodymyr, III Class (1998) and the Order of Princess Olha (1999). Laureate of the Art Prize "Kyiv" named after Artemiy Vedel (2003). Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2009).
After graduating from the P. Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory, she connected her creative and academic life with artistic groups and art institutions of Kyiv as a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (1968), the Board of the Music Foundation of Ukraine (1973), the Coordination Council of the National All-Ukrainian Music Union (1994), Secretary of the Board of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine (1994), member of the jury of the M. Lontovych Choral Competition. Leontovych, the organising committees of the Kyiv Music Fest and Musical Premieres of the Season festivals, a member of the honorary committee of the "Golden-Domed Kyiv" Choral Festival, a member of the jury of the World Contemporary Music Competition in Debrecen (Hungary) and chairman of the jury of the Choral Forum of Christian Youth of Ukraine (Kyiv, 1999). She was a member of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize Committee (1993-2002) and a member of the Board of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine (1996), and cooperates fruitfully with the Kyiv Patriarchate.
The composer is the author of 3 ballets, 3 choral operas, 3 symphonies, 14 cantatas, 2 oratorios, 4 liturgies on canonical texts and many works of symphonic and chamber music, music for cinematic films, animations, 45 songs. The wide range of Lesia Dychko's creative preferences is complemented by choral concerts, which reveal another facet of her talent: her attraction to painting and sculpture, architecture and the original cultures of the peoples of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and her native Ukraine.
The most important part of her oeuvre is occupied by choral works, which clearly show a connection with folklore, rituals and Christian motifs. A special place is dedicated to the theme of children's music. According to Kyianovska, the composer managed to reveal this world "with all the immediacy and luminosity of a child's vision of nature and life".
Thus, Lesia Dychko is one of the leading choral composers in Ukraine. Her works have been widely presented at choral festivals, competitions and concert programmes around the world: the USA, Canada, France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic.

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