Dmytro Hnatyuk

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Dmytro Hnatyuk
Kyiv Conservatory
OccupationOpera singer
AwardsHero of Ukraine
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class

Dmytro Hnatyuk (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Миха́йлович Гнатю́к; 28 March 1925 – 29 April 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Biography

Dmytro Hnatyuk was born on 28 March 1925 in the village of Mămăești, Sipeniț district,

Kyiv 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

Fatherland".[2][3] Early 2001 he again moved to another faction in parliament, this time to Labour Ukraine.[3]

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".

Hnatyuk died on 29 April 2016.[4] He was buried at Kyiv's Baikove Cemetery.[4]

Family

Dmytro Hnatyuk was married to Doctor of Philological Sciences and historian of Ukrainian language Halyna Hnatyuk.

Awards

Hnatyuk was a

Academy of Arts of Ukraine, and a professor of the Tchaikovsky Music Academy. In 2005 he was awarded with the Hero of Ukraine, the highest decoration of Ukraine.[4]

In 1960 he had also been granted the title of the People's Artist of the USSR.[4]

References

  1. ^ (in Ukrainian) Yulia Tymoshenko and her supporters have suspended his membership in the party "Hromada", Ukrinform (01.06.1999)
  2. ISBN 9780203398128
    . Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  3. ^
    Fakty i Kommentarii
    (22 February 2001)
  4. ^ a b c d Newspaper: Ukrainian opera singer Dmytro Hnatyuk passes away, Interfax-Ukraine (29 April 2016)
  5. ^ Decree of the President of Ukraine from 28 березня 2005 year № 537/2005 «Про присвоєння Д. Гнатюку звання Герой України» (in Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Decree of the President of Ukraine from 27 березня 2015 year № 180/2015 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України діячів театрального мистецтва» (in Ukrainian)
  7. ^ Decree of the President of Ukraine from 16 січня 2009 year № 26/2009 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України» (in Ukrainian)
  8. ^ Decree of the President of Ukraine from 28 березня 2000 year № 541/2000 «Про нагородження відзнакою Президента України "Орден князя Ярослава Мудрого"» (in Ukrainian)

External links

Media related to Dmytro Hnatyuk at Wikimedia Commons

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