Yevhen Stankovych

Yevhen Stankovych studied at Lviv Conservatory and Uzhhorod State Music School named after Desidery Zador. Training under Adam Sołtys, Borys Liatoshynsky and Myroslav Skoryk is recorded. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is symphonic music, chamber music and choral music. Employment is recorded with Ukrainian National Academy of Music. Distinctions recorded are Order of Friendship of Peoples, Medal "For Labour Valour", Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR and Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State.

• Honorific Prefix — Hero of Ukraine • Name — Yevhen Stankovych • Native Name — Євген Станкович • Years Active — 1966–2020 • Born — 19 September 1942 • Birthplace — Szolyva, Hungary • Notable Works — Olga, When the Fern Blooms • Education — * Lviv Conservatory • Kyiv Conservatory • Occupation — Composer • Awards — Hero of Ukraine, Shevchenko National Prize • Website — https: stankovych.org.ua/

Stankovych was born in Szolyva (today the Ukrainian city of Svaliava), in Hungary. In 1962, Stankovych studied composition with the Polish composer Adam Soltys 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 to 2010, he shared the chair of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine with Skoryk. In 2012 Stankovych became the patron of Stankovych Music Instrumental competition. In 2017, he chaired the organising committee of the 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. 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. The premiere took place in 2011.

Yevhen Stankovych worked in symphonic music, chamber music, choral music, ballet and opera. He was employed by Ukrainian National Academy of Music. He belonged to National Union of Composers of Ukraine.

Yevhen Stankovych is recorded as composer and university teacher.