Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka ( uk, Григорій Гурійович Верьовка, 25 December 1895 in

Berezna Berezna ( uk, Березна, russian: Бере́зна) is an urban-type settlement in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Berezna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Berezna is ...

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Chernigov Governorate The Chernigov Governorate (russian: Черниговская губерния; translit.: ''Chernigovskaya guberniya''; ), also known as the Government of Chernigov, was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

– 21 October 1964 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and choir director. He is best known for founding the renowned ''Veryovka Choir'' in 1943, and leading it for many years, gaining international recognition and winning multiple awards. Veryovka was also a

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of conducting at the

Kyiv Conservatory Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine ( uk, Національна музична академія України імені Петра Чайковського) or Kyiv Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music e ...

, where he worked alongside faculty including

Boleslav Yavorsky Boleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky (russian: Болеслав Леопольдович Яворский; June 22, 1877, Kharkiv – November 26, 1942) was a Russian musicologist, music teacher, administrator and pianist. Through his teachings and e ...

Alexander Koshetz Alexander Koshetz (12 September 1875 – 21 September 1944) was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world. His name is sometimes ...

Mykola Leontovych Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych (23 January 1921; ua, Микола Дмитрович Леонтович, link=no (); also Leontovich) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist and teacher. His music was inspired by the Ukrainian ...

, and

Mykhailo Verykivsky Mykhailo Verykivsky ( 14 June 1962) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher. He was an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 1944. Biography In early years Mykhailo Verykivsky grows in an atmosphere of love and respect for Ukrainian native fo ...

.Кафедра хорового диригування (Department of choral conducting)
Official website of the

Veryovka was born in an old

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town of Berezna (today

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

). In 1916 he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary. In 1918-21 Veryovka studied at the

Lysenko music school The Lysenko Music and Drama School was a private music school in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1899 and opened in 1904 by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. In 1912 it became a public national university for the performing arts, now the pres ...

(a predecessor of the

) studying a

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by Aleksander Orlov. In 1933 he received an

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from the institute. Since 1923 Veryovka continued to work at the Lysenko institute and later (from 1934)

. During

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in 1941-45 he was a scientist of the

Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology The Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology (IAFE; Ukrainian: Інститут мистецтвознавства, фольклористики та етнології ім. М. Т. Рильського, ''Instytut mystetsvoznavst ...

. In 1943 in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.National Union of Composers of Ukraine The National Union of Composers of Ukraine (ukr: ''Національна спілка композиторів України'') is a public organization that unites Ukrainian composers and musicologists working in academic music. Potential memb ...

References

1895 births 1964 deaths 20th-century composers 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century male musicians Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Academic staff of Kyiv Conservatory People from Chernihiv Oblast People from Chernigovsky Uyezd Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine Male conductors (music) Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Soviet conductors (music) Soviet male composers Soviet music educators Ukrainian choral conductors Ukrainian composers Ukrainian conductors (music) Ukrainian music educators {{Ukraine-composer-stub Burials at Baikove Cemetery