Lesia Dychko

Lesia Vasylivna Dychko (), originally Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko (born 24 October 1939) is a Ukrainian composer and music educator. Life Early years and education Lesia Vasylivna Dychko was born Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko in Kyiv on 24 October 1939. She graduated from the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum in 1959 with a degree in music theory. In 1964 she graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in composition, studying with the composers Konstantyn Dankevych and Borys Lyatoshynsky. In 1971 she studied with the Soviet composer Nikolai Peiko. Career After completing her studies, Dychko worked as a music teacher. Her output includes film soundtracks. She composes for orchestral, choral and instrumental performance including flute, violin, organ and piano. Incomplete list of compositions (Information from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians) * (after paintings by Vasily Surikov, Isaac Levitan, Viktor Vasnetsov, and Ivan Shishkin), chorus and orchestra, 1962 * Fires Before Dawn (ballet), 1966 * Inspiration (ballet, after paintings by Kateryna Bilokur), 1966, revised in 1983 * The Mellifluous Talker (opera), 1995 * The Red Guelder Rose Tree (Ukrainian f