Hryhoriy Veryovka
Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka was a Ukrainian composer, choir director, and teacher.
He is best known for founding the renowned 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, Oleksandr Koshyts, Mykola Leontovych, and Mykhailo Verykivsky.
Veryovka was born in an old Cossack town of Berezna. In 1916 he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary. In 1918-21 Veryovka studied at the Lysenko music school studying a musical composition by Boleslav Yavorsky, a conducting by Aleksander Orlov. In 1933 he received an external degree from the institute.
Since 1923 Veryovka continued to work at the Lysenko institute and later Kiev Conservatory. During World War II in 1941-45 he was a scientist of the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology.
After the war in 1943 in Kharkiv, Veryovka organized his well known choir and until his death was its art director and a main conductor. In 1948-52 he headed the National society of composers of Ukraine.
