Anatoly Kolomiets
Anatoly Kolomiets was a Ukrainian and Soviet composer, teacher, professor, and musician. He was born in Savintsy, in present-day Myrhorod district, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, on October 4, 1918, and died in Kyiv on April 19, 1997. He became a member of the Composers' Union of Ukraine in 1942.
Kolomiets graduated from the Poltava Music College and studied at the Kyiv Conservatory from 1938 to 1941, first in its history and theory faculty and also, from 1939, in its composition faculty. He studied with Levko Revutsky. After the outbreak of war, he completed his studies at the Tashkent Conservatory in 1943, then pursued postgraduate study at the Kyiv Conservatory, finishing in 1951 in Revutsky's class. In 1959 he received the degree of Candidate of Art Studies.
From 1943 to 1945, Kolomiets worked as an accompanist at the Ivan Franko Kyiv Ukrainian Drama Theater in Tashkent. He taught at the Kyiv Music College from 1944 to 1954 and joined the Kyiv Conservatory in 1951; from 1971, he was a professor in its composition department. He was named a Distinguished Artist of Ukraine in 1994.
His works include choral, vocal, instrumental, and symphonic music, stage music, and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs. He also wrote educational repertoire for music schools, colleges, and higher education institutions, and edited music by Mykola Lysenko, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Viktor Kosenko, Levko Revutsky, Mykhailo Verykivsky, and Hryhoriy Veryovka. With Vitaly Kyreyko, he wrote the cantata Ivan's Grove (1969), in memory of Ivan Kotlyarevsky, to words by Maksym Rylsky. In 1962, he edited and completed Stetsenko's children's opera Ivasyk-Telesyk. With Revutsky and Hryhoriy Maiboroda, he edited Kosenko's Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra in 1967. As a pianist, he performed works by Mykola Lysenko, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Frédéric Chopin, and Franz Schubert. His students included Oleksandr Bilash, Lesia Dychko, Volodymyr Ilyin, Ivan Karabits, Oleksandr Kostin, Oleksandr Osadchyi, Ihor Poklad, Yevhen Stankovych, Mykola Stepanenko, and Viktor Filippenko. A children's music school in Myrhorod and a street in his native village bear his name; memorial plaques were installed in Kyiv, at the Poltava Music College, and at a school in Velyki Sorochyntsi.