Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka (25 December 1895 [O.S. 13 December] – 21 October 1964) 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 professor of conducting at the Kyiv Conservatory, where he worked alongside faculty including Boleslav Yavorsky, Alexander Koshetz, Mykola Leontovych, and Mykhailo Verykivsky.
Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka (25 December 1895 [O.S. 13 December] – 21 October 1964) 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 professor of conducting at the Kyiv Conservatory, where he worked alongside faculty including Boleslav Yavorsky, Alexander Koshetz, Mykola Leontovych, and Mykhailo Verykivsky.
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Career Veryovka was born in an old Cossack town of Berezna (today urban-type settlement). In 1916 he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary. He was the son of a peasant-craftsman who was the regent of a church choir and also played the violin. His mother was also involved in music, and performed many songs in the Ukrainian language. He was their sixth child. After attending a local three-year zemstvo school, he began attending the Chernihiv Theological Seminary, where he played various musical instruments and sang in the church choir. However, he soon transferred in 1918, entering instead the Lysenko Music and Drama School (a predecessor of the Kyiv Conservatory), studying the theory of composition. At the school, he helped found several amateur choral ensembles. In 1933 he received an external degree from the institute. In 1923, he began to work as the choral conductor at his alma mater until 1927, and he also worked at the First Kyiv Music College and at the Ukrainian Republican Philharmonic. In addition, he was head of the new music school in Kyiv named after M. Leontovych in 1925. Right before the outbreak of World War II, he was working as the conductor of the…
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Awards and honors
He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1948.
He was awarded the People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1960.
He was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize in 1968.
There are streets named after him in Kyiv and Bucha.
