Hryhorii Verovka

Hryhorii V. Verovka is a Ukrainian composer and choral conductor, teacher. H. Verovka was born on December 26, 1895 in a poor peasant family in the town of Bereznia in Chernihiv region.

In 1916 he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary. From 1918 to 1921 he studied at the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama in composition class of Boleslav Yavorsky, and with was condacting in Alexander Orlov. From 1919 he worked as an organizer and head of amateur activities, taught choral conducting at music schools in Kiev.

From 1923 to 1927 he worked at the Institute of Music and Drama, and from 1931 - at the Kiev Conservatory. In 1933 he graduated from the Institute. Since 1947 he became a Professor in the Conservatory. Among the graduates of H. Verovka are later known conductors Mikhail Krechko, Lev Venediktov. 1941-1945 – was a researcher at the Institute of Folklore of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1943 he organized the Ukrainian National Folk Choir; in 1943-1964 he was its artistic director and chief conductor.

Verovka as a composer worked mainly in the field of choral mass songs, engaged in the musical adaptation of folk songs. Verovka's works are widely popular, many of which have become truly folk. He wrote songs about his people, his native land, in particular: "Oh, how green it became," "Oh, why did you land, become young" and others, as well as humorous songs, one of the Ukrainian folk song "And rustles and hums", patriotic songs, including "Oath", songs about work "Girls from Donbass", "Shakhtarka".

 Among the works of the large cantata "We forge our fate" on the words of Pavlo Tychyna.