Volodymyr Sheiko

Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine 2015. Concert programs of 2009-2014 were nominated for the Concert and Performing Arts nomination: 160 concerts, each of which became a notable spiritual and educational event, highlighted the active artistic and social position of the artist and received a wide positive public response. In particular, some of the largest concert cycles of the artist were music media projects "Art Stories" and "RadioSymphony_UA," where Volodymyr Sheiko participated as artistic director, project conductor, project developer, and director.

In August 2005, he headed the Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio Company of Ukraine. He has carried out a number of large-scale creative projects, including Mozart's "Repentance of David," A. Karamanov's "Symphonic Gospel," Shostakovich's "Execution of Stepan Razin," Verdi's "Requiem," and Rossini's "Stabat Mater," "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff (his own stage version), "Fantasies in jazz tones" by O. Saratsky, a series of joint TV and radio projects of the National Radio Company and the National TV Company of Ukraine "Art Stories" and many others.

From 1995 to 2005 he was the chief conductor of the Kyiv Academic Operetta Theater, where he staged 15 plays, including George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," Johann Strauss II's "The Gypsy Baron" and "Night in Venice," Emmerich Kálmán's "Maritza," "Count of Luxembourg" by Franz Lehár and many others.

In October 1990, he created the country's first non-governmental symphony orchestra "Ukraine," with which from 1991 to 2002 he conducted extensive concert and touring activities (Ukraine, Russia, Italy, France, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Switzerland), made numerous recordings. on Ukrainian radio and television, has published a number of CDs (Russia, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland), organized international art festivals "Meetings for Easter" (Kyiv, Ukraine - 2000, 2001, 2002) and "Tenoratorio" (Solothurn, Switzerland - 1999, 2000, 2001), was one of the organizers and director of the opening of VERDIANO-2001 (Busseto, Italy - 2001).

In 1989-1991 he was an intern at the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater (Moscow), directed by Fuat Mansurov.

In 1988 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory with a degree in opera and symphony conducting (Prof. Stefan Turchak) and choral conducting (Prof. Lev Venediktov).

Since 1988 he has been the conductor-producer of the Kyiv Academic Operetta Theater.

In 1981 he graduated from Poltava State Music School named after MV Lysenko as a choirmaster and music theorist.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Sheiko (born January 11, 1962, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian conductor, Honored Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine, the director of the Association "Music," and the chief conductor of the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra.