41 Notable alumni of
Lviv National Music Academy
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Lviv National Music Academy is 1061st in the world, 365th in Europe, and 14th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from Lviv National Music Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Zhou Shen
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- singerrecording artist
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Zhou Shen, also known as Charlie Zhou, is a Chinese singer known for his ethereal voice and wide vocal range. He gained prominence with his renowned song "Big Fish", which has garnered eight awards. In November 2017, Zhou released his debut album Charlie's Debut Album, created in collaboration with producer Gao Xiaosong, songwriter Yin Yue, and composer Qian Lei. He has performed OSTs for numerous high-profile Chinese films and TV series, including Big Fish & Begonia, Dahufa, and Jiang Ziya, among others. Since 2022, he has been a cast member of the Chinese variety show Keep Running!.
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Ruslana Lyzhychko
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- actorpianistcomposerrecord producerdancer
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Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, known mononymously as Ruslana, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, dancer, producer, actress, activist, and former politician. She is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. She is also a former MP serving as deputy in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) for the Our Ukraine Party. Ruslana was the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Ukraine in 2004–2005. She is recognized as the most successful Ukrainian female solo artist internationally and was included in the top 10 most influential women of 2013 by the Forbes magazine. The U.S. Secretary of State honored her with the International Women of Courage Award in March, 2014. She has been named an honorary citizen of her hometown Lviv and was nominated to receive the title Hero of Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Ivasyuk
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- songwritercomposerlyricistsinger
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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.
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Solomea Krushelnytska
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- music teacheropera singer
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Solomiya Amvrosiivna Krushelnytska was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano, considered to be one of the brightest opera stars of the first half of the 20th century.
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Oksana Bilozir
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- politicianrecording artist
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Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilozir, née Rozumkevych (Ukrainian: Розумкевич), is a People's Artist of Ukraine (1994), former People's Deputy of Ukraine and in 2005 Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.
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Vasyl Slipak
- Enrolled in Lviv National Music Academy
- Studied in 1997
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- volunteermilitary volunteeropera singer
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Vasyl Yaroslavovych Slipak was a Ukrainian baritone opera singer. From 1994 he frequently performed in France at such venues as Paris Opera and Opéra Bastille. For his opera performance, Slipak received several awards, including "Best Male Performance" for the Toreador Song. A volunteer in the Ukrainian army, Slipak was killed during the war in Donbass by a Russian sniper near the village of Luhanske, in Bakhmut region. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine for his work as a volunteer soldier.
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Irena Anders
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- stage actorfilm actoractorsinger
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Irena Renata Anders, born Iryna Renata Jarosiewicz (Yarosevych), was a Ukrainian-Polish stage actress and singer. During World War II she performed with Henryk Wars' troupe and later with the Polska Parada (Polish Parade) band, entertaining the Polish Armed Forces in the West (commanded by General Władysław Anders, her future husband). She was one of the first singers to perform the anthem, Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino (The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino).
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Irma Vitovska
- Enrolled in Lviv National Music Academy
- Studied in 1998
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- television actorstage actortelevision presenterfilm actoractor
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Irma Hrigoriivna Vitovska is a Ukrainian theater and film actress, producer and public figure. Honored Artist of Ukraine (2016). She has worked at the Young Theater since 1998, and it best known for her role as Lesya in the Ukrainian comedy TV series Lesya+Roma (2005-2007).
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Ida Fink
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- writer
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Ida Fink was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish.
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Mieczysław Horszowski
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- pianistmusic teacher
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Mieczysław Horszowski was a Polish and American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.
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Taras Chubay
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- poetcomposersingerguitarist
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Taras Hryhorovych Chubay, (born on 21 June 1970 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian musician and poet, singer and composer, leader of the Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiyi.
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Vasyl Barvinsky
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- composer
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Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure.
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Moriz Rosenthal
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- pianistcomposernon-fiction writermusic teacher
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Moriz Rosenthal was a Polish pianist and composer. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz.
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Stefan Askenase
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- musicologistpianistuniversity teachermusic teacher
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Stefan Askenase was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue.
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Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska
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- scout leader
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Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska, with her husband, founded scouting in Poland.
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Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych
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- musicologistpianistcomposermusic teacher
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Stefania Turkewich-Lukianovych, also spelled Turkevycz and Turkevich, was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist. She is recognized as Ukraine's first woman composer. In the USSR, her works were banned by the state authorities.
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Pavlo Dvorsky
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- singercomposer
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Pavlo Ananiyovych Dvorsky (Ukrainian: Павло Ананійович Дворський is a Ukrainian singer and composer. He was named People's Artist of Ukraine in 1994.
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Mykola Kolessa
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- writerconductormusic teachercomposerchorus master
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Mykola Filaretovich Kolessa was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in Sambir near Lviv.
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Marcella Sembrich
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- opera singerpianistmusic teacherviolinist
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Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska, known professionally as Marcella Sembrich, was a Polish dramatic coloratura soprano. She is known for her extensive range of two and a half octaves, precise intonation, charm, portamento, vocal fluidity, and impressive coloratura. Her voice was regarded as flute-like, sweet, pure, light, and brilliant. She had an important international singing career, chiefly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, in London.
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Aleksander Michałowski
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- music teacherpianistcomposer
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Aleksander Michałowski was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer who, in addition to his own immense technique, had a profound influence upon the teaching of pianoforte technique, especially in relation to the works of Chopin and J.S. Bach, and left this legacy among a large number of pupils.
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Adamo Didur
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- opera singer
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Adam Didur or Adamo Didur was a famous Polish operatic bass singer. He sang extensively in Europe and had a major career at New York's Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1932.
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Eduard Steuermann
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- pianistcomposeruniversity teachermusic teacher
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Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian-born American pianist and composer.
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Raoul Koczalski
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- pianistcomposer
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Raoul Armand Jerzy Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski.
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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
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- designeruniversity teachergraphic artistcomposergraphic designer
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Roman Haubenstock - since 1943 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
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Yevheniya Dembska
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- singeractor
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Yevheniya Mykhaylivna Dembska was a Ukrainian theatre and cinema actress.
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Roman Palester
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- pianistcomposer
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Roman Palester was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. His work was individual in style and not noticeably Polish in character.
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Hanna Havrylets'
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- composermusic teacher
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Hanna Oleksiivna Havrylets was a Ukrainian composer.
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Oleksandr Myshuha
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- music teacherpatron of the artsopera singer
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Aleksander Myszuga was a Ukrainian operatic tenor and voice teacher of Ukrainian descent. He studied voice with Walery Wysocki in Lviv and with Giovanni Sbriglia in Paris. During the last two decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century he performed with major European opera houses, including making appearances at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Paris Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. After retiring from the stage, he taught singing in Kiev from 1905 to 1911 and then in Warsaw from 1911 to 1914. He established a music school in Stockholm in 1918.
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Zofia Lissa
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- music teacherdiplomatmusicologist
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Zofia Lissa was a Polish music educator and musicologist.
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Rostyslav Derzhypilsky
- Enrolled in Lviv National Music Academy
- Studied in 1998
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- theatrical directoractor
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Rostyslav Lyubomyrovych Derzhypilsky is a Ukrainian theater director and actor, People's Artist of Ukraine, and the artistic director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.
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Irena Turkevycz-Martynec
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- opera singer
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Irena Turkevycz-Martynec was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and came to Canada, to Winnipeg, in 1949. She was a Prima donna in the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and performed in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and many other European cities during her long and storied career.
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Bertha Kalich
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- stage actormusicianfilm actoractor
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Bertha Kalich was a Ukrainian-Jewish-American actress. Though she was well-established as an entertainer in Eastern Europe, she is best remembered as one of the several "larger-than-life" figures that dominated New York stages during the "Golden Age" of American Yiddish Theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Historians estimate that, during her career, Kalich performed more than 125 different roles in seven different languages.
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Bohdana Frolyak
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- composer
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Bohdana Froliak is a modern Ukrainian composer.
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Zdzisław Jachimecki
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- university teacherconductormusic teachercomposermusicologist
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Zdzisław Jachimecki was a Polish historian of music, composer, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Kraków Music Academy, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
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Mieczysław Sołtys
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- music teachercomposerconductor
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Mieczysław Sołtys was a Polish composer, conductor, teacher, music and public figure.
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Marianna Laba
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- singer
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Marianna Laba, born 7 September 1968) is a Ukrainian singer (soprano), Merited Artist of Ukraine, soloist of Lviv State Philharmonic and The Lviv House of Chamber and Organ music.
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Ivan Nebesnyi
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- composer
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Ivan Nebesnyy is a Ukrainian composer and music producer.
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Maria Mosciska
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- opera singer
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Maria Moscisca was a Polish operatic soprano and voice teacher. She first performed at the Lviv Opera and Warsaw Opera before she entered a career in Italy from 1909. She sang as a guest on major stages in Europe and made a tour of the U.S. in 1913. Back in Warsaw, she was a leading singer to 1932.
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Paula Szalit
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- pianistcomposer
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Paulina Szalitówna, more commonly known as Paula Szalit, was a Polish pianist and composer.
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József Örmény
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- pianistmusicologist
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József Örmény is a Ukrainian pianist of Hungarian origin. He is mostly known for performing 20th-century music including Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alfred Schnittke and Ukrainian composers Yevhen Stankovych, Valentin Silvestrov, and others. He was also in close creative relationship with the Polish composer Andrzej Nikodemowicz, who wrote five of his piano concerti for Örmény.
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Josef František Munclingr
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- opera singertranslatorpedagoguedirector
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Josef František Munclinger, also Josef František Munclingr was a Czech operatic bass and opera stage director who had an active international career from the 1910s through the 1950s. His voice is preserved on a number of recordings made for the Ultraphon and Supraphon labels.
