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Laniuk, Yuri (b. June 7, 1957, Lviv). Ukrainian composer of orchestral, chamber and choral works that have been performed in Europe and North America.
Prof. Laniuk studied cello with Yevhen Schpitzer and composition with Desideri Zador at the Lysenko State Academy of Music in Lviv from 1975–80 and then had post-graduate studies in cello with Vadim Chervov at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv from 1980–82. He also had fruitful contact with Andrzej Nikodemowicz in Lviv.
Among his honors are First Prize as a cellist in the Lysenko competition in Kyiv (1979) and the Lev Revutsky Prize for Composition in Kyiv (1989, for Two Brooks and Diptych [both withdrawn]). More recently, he has received the Borys Lyatoshynsky Prize in Kyiv (2001, for his portrait Accord recording) and the National Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine (2005, for Palimpsesty – Palimpsests and Music from the Book of Mysterious Spaces and Elegies for the Bird-Light). His music has been performed in Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA.
Prof. Laniuk is also active in other positions. He performed romantic and Ukrainian repertoire as a cellist, principally during the 1970s and 1980s. He co-founded with Roman Rewakowicz the Contrasts festival for contemporary music in Lviv in 1995 and has since served as its co-organizer with Myroslav Skoryk and Volodymyr Syvokhip.
He has taught cello and composition at the Lysenko State Academy of Music since 1982, where he was an assistant professor from 1982–93 and a docent from 1993–2001 and where he has been a professor since 2001.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: laniuk@lviv.gu.net
Street address: Prof. Yuri Laniuk, ul. Franko 83, kv. 12, 79011 Lviv, Ukraine
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Chamber Music, piano, harpsichord, percussion, 19 strings, 1989; Grieving Thorn (text by Borden-Ihor Antonych), soprano, oboe, piano, celesta, percussion, string orchestra, 1991; Music to the memories, new parables and sermons (text by Nicanor Parra [translated by Bohdan Boychuk]), soprano, baritone, orchestra (7 winds, 3 B-flat trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, harp, piano, celesta [+ harpsichord], 3 percussion, strings), 1997; Palimpsesty (texts from the Book of John [ancient Greek version], Vasyl Stus), mixed chorus, violin, large orchestra, 1998; TanG(h)opak, piano, small orchestra (2 percussion, 21 strings), 2001; L'Annonciation (vocalise), mixed chorus, violin, 21 strings, 2003; Lieder jenseits der Menschen (text by Paul Celan), mezzo-soprano, piano (+ celesta, harpsichord, triangle), 21 strings (both 6th first violin, 4th cello + triangle), 2004
CHAMBER MUSIC: Chant pour un Équinoxe (text by Saint-John Perse), soprano, baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano (+ harpsichord), percussion, string quartet, double bass, 1991; Musique pour recherche, flute (+ piccolo), oboe, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 1996; Anticipation Sonata (vocalise), 4 off-stage mixed voices/any 4 similar winds/CD, cello, piano, 1997; Music from the Book of Mysterious Spaces and Elegies for the Bird-Light, cello, piano, 2 string quartets, 2000; Life's knots are as the knots of birds' flight..., flute (+ piccolo), oboe, viola, cello, piano, 2001
CHORAL: Diptych (text by Taras Shevchenko), 24 or more mixed voices, 2006; Zoloty homin – The Golden Echo (text by Pavlo Tychyna), 24 or more mixed voices, 2006
(Last updated on September 25, 2006)
