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Friends, today celebrates his 79th birthday world-famous Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

Myroslav Mikhailovich was born in Lviv on July 13, 1938. His parents were representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Grandpa of Skoryk, Volodymyr Okhrimovich, was well-known Ukrainian folklorist, a public figure and a politician. Grandma Olena Krushelnytska-Okhrimovich was a sister of the famous opera singer Solomiya Krushelnytska. Myroslav's father, Michael, studied at the University of Vienna and was a highly educated man. Often, on family evenings, along with Michael's mother, they played - he on a violin, she on a piano. Therefore, Skoryk fell in love with music from his childhood. Mikhail was encouraged for this love by Solomiya Krushelnytska on her advice, he enrolled in the Lviv Music School for ten years.

In 1947, the family of Skoryk was repressed and sent to Siberia. But there, Michael continued to study music - he studied piano playing from the pupil of the legendary composer Sergei Rachmaninov.

Only seven years later, the family was able to return to Lviv. He trained and entered the Lviv State Conservatory. Miroslav Mikhailovich played in a student orchestra, organized VIA "Funny Violins", for which he wrote pop songs. His graduation work was the cantata "Spring" on the words of Ivan Franko. In 1963, Myroslav Skoryk became the youngest member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine at that time, and at the same time the youngest teacher at the Conservatory. In his 25 he first taught in Lviv, and since 1968, and at the Kiev Conservatories.

1964 became a landmark for Myroslav Skoryk. Then he wrote music to Serhiy Paradzhanov's film "The Shadows of Forgetten Ancestors". It made a real outrage and Miroslav Mikhailovich immediately became a famous composer. Subsequently, one of the most famous works of the composer - "Hutsul Tryptych" for the symphony orchestra emerged from the music to the film.

Myroslav Skoryk is a bright talent, a composer whom the whole world knows. In his portfolio, there are many wonderful works: operas, ballets, concerts (for orchestra, for cello with orchestra, 3 fortepianos, 2 violins). The most important thing - he puts in his music the unsurpassed Ukrainian color and successfully combines it with modern sound.

Skoryk is the only composer in Ukraine who writes significant cello concerts. For Concert No. 1 he was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine of T. Shevchenko in 1987. And almost 30 years later, there was a world premiere of the Second Concert for cello and orchestra. In addition, Miroslav Mikhailovich is the initiator and co-founder of many international music festivals, including "Music of Ukrainian Foreign Countries", Days of American and Ukrainian Music in Lviv, "In Memory of Victims of the Holodomor - Composers of Ukraine", International Contest Festival of Contemporary Music.

I wholeheartedly congratulate Myroslav Mikhailovich on his birthday! I wish you many years of life, good health and inspiration for writing new works.