Myroslav Skoryk

Myroslav Skoryk (Ukrainian: Мирослав Михайлович Скорик, born July 13, 1938) is a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk traditions.

Myroslav Skoryk was born in what was then the Polish city of Lwów, now the western Ukrainian of Lviv. His parents were both educated in Austria at the University of Vienna and subsequently became educators. His father was a historian and an ethnographer, while his mother was a chemist. Although his parents did not have special musical training, his mother played piano and his father played the violin. Skoryk was exposed to music in the household from an early age. No less important was the fact that in his family was a well-known diva of the 20th century – Skoryk's great aunt was the Ukrainian soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska.

In 1947 Skoryk's family were deported to Siberia, where Myroslav grew up: they did not return to Lviv until 1955.

Between 1955 and 1960 Skoryk studied at the Lviv Conservatory, and there he received training in composition and theory. Skoryk states: "My teachers were well-known composers and educators, including Stanislav Liudkevych, a graduate of the Vienna Conservatory, Roman Simovych a graduate from the Prague Conservatory in 1933, and Adam Soltys (1890-1968), a graduate of the Berlin Conservatory." Skoryk’s final exam piece was a Cantata 'Vesna' (Spring), on verses of Ivan Franko for soloists, mixed choir and symphonic orchestra. Skoryk also wrote some piano music during this time, including a cycle of piano pieces 'V Karpatakh' ('In the Carpathian Mountains) and the 'Piano Sonata in C' thus evoking a predilection toward this genre that subsequently gave him recognition and, to some extent, determined his creative direction.

...
Wikipedia