Yevhen Stankovych

Stankovych was born in Szolyva (today the Ukrainian city of Svaliava), in Hungary.{{cite web |last1=Stech |first1=Marko Robert |title=Stankovych, Yevhen |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CT%5CStankovychYevhen.htm |website=Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies |access-date=12 August 2022}}

In 1962, Stankovych studied composition with the Polish composer {{Ill| Adam Soltys|uk|Солтис Адам Мечиславович}} at the L'viv Mykola Lysenko Conservatoire. From 1965 to 1970, he studied composition with the Ukrainian composers Borys Lyatoshynsky and Myroslav Skoryk at the Kyiv Conservatory. Since 1988 he has worked as a music editor, and has since 1998 been the professor of composition at the Kyiv Conservatory, now the National Music Academy of Ukraine. From 2004{{ndash}}2010 he shared the chair of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine with Skoryk.{{cite web |title=Станкович Євген Федорович |url=http://composersukraine.org/index.php?id=675 |publisher=National Union of Composers of Ukraine |access-date=12 August 2022 |page=|trans-title=Yevhen Fedorovich Stankovych |language=uk}}

In 2012 Stankovych became the patron of Stankovych Music Instrumental competition.{{cite web |last1=Lunina |first1=Anna |title=Станкович, Євген Федорович |url=https://vue.gov.ua/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87,_%D0%84%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 |website=Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia |publisher=State Scientific Institution "Encyclopedic Publishing House" |access-date=12 August 2022 |page=|trans-title=Stankovych, Yevhen Fedorovych |language=uk}} In 2017, he chaired the organising committee of the [https://holoskrainy.ua/ All-Ukrainian Open Music Olympiad "The Voice of The Country"].

Stankovych's works include 12 symphonies, five ballets, one opera, instrumental concertos, film scores, and chamber music. He composed a ballet based on the life of Princess Olga.{{sfn|Cherkashina-Gubarenko|2016|p=52}} His folk-opera "When the Fern Blooms" was the first modern work its type; it was written in 1970s but was forbidden to be performed by the Soviet authorities.{{cite web |last1=Lunina |first1=Anna |title=Коли цвіте папороть: розвінчана міфологема… |url=http://m-r.co.ua/mr/mr.nsf/0/25C9882AE413CB12C225786E006142D8?OpenDocument |website=Music-review Ukraine |access-date=12 August 2022 |page=|trans-title=When the fern blooms: a mythologime debunked... |language=uk |date=8 April 2011}}{{cite news |title="Країна Інкогніта": Фольк-опера "Цвіт папороті" |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/916218.html |access-date=12 August 2022 |agency=Radio Svoboda |date=1 June 2004 |page=|trans-title="Country of Incognito": Folk opera "Fern Flower"}} The premiere took place in 2011.

Awards and honours received by Stankovych for his compositions include:

• Hero of Ukraine (2008)
• Shevchenko National Prize (1977)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR)
• Medal "For Labour Valour" (USSR)

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• {{cite journal |last1=Cherkashina-Gubarenko |first1=M. R. |title=Театральні університети Володимира Рожка |journal=Journal of the National Music Academy of Ukraine Named After P. I. Tchaikovsky |date=2016 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=47{{ndash}}57 |url=http://nbuv.gov.ua/j-pdf/Chasopys_2016_3_7.pdf |access-date=12 August 2022 |trans-title=The creative achievements of Volodymyr Rozhko |issn=2414-052X}}

• {{official|https://stankovych.org.ua/}}
• [http://composers21.com/compdocs/stankovy.htm Yevhen Stankovych] from the Living Composers Project
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060522040037/http://www.ukrainianmusicians.com/html/musicians-s.html Ukrainian Musicians Directory]

{{1977 Shevchenko National Prize}}

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class

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