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SKORYK, Myloslav

Myloslav Skoryk
Photograph of Myloslav Skoryk (2015) by Grigory Hansburg, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Born in L’viv, July 13, 1938 
Died in Kyiv, June 1, 2020 

  • Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and musicologist. 
  • Skoryk spent much of his childhood in Siberia; his entire family was deported there from 19471, until 1955 (after the death of Stalin). He’s been attending the L’viv Music School for a couple years before the family was deported. 
  • Skoryk studied at the L’viv Conservatory, and at the Moscow Conservatory, where his teachers included Dmitri Kabalevsky. 
  • Skoryk was an influential educator who taught at the L’viv Conservatory and Kyiv Conservatory. 
  • During his lifetime, Skoryk was award the title “People’s Artist of Ukraine.”2

In Memoriam article from Ukraine World 

Short biography from the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine 

Sources

  1. According to Grove; this article from Ukraine World dates the deportation to 1948.
  2. Virko Baley, “Skoryk [Skorik], Myroslav Mykhaylovych,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed April 29, 2022,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044857.

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