Leonid A. Grabovskiy
Composer, Laureate of the Boris Lyatoshynsky Prize (1993), Honorary Professor at Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (2010). The author of the “Four Ukrainian Songs” for mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1959), four “Homeomorphies” (I, II, III for piano, 1968–1969, IV for large symphony orchestra, 1970), melodrama “La Mer” for narrator, mixed choir and large symphony orchestra on texts by the French poet S.-J. Perce (1964–1970), Symphony-Legend “Evening on Ivan Kupalo” (1976), the symphonic poem “Vorzel” in memory of B. Lyatoshinsky (1992), and many other symphonic, choral, chamber (instrumental and instrumental-vocal) compositions. Using a wide range of modern composition techniques, he created and, from the end of the 1960’s, used, constantly improving it, his own method of algorithmic composition. Having, after many years of labour, completed computerization of this method, Hrabovsky returned to active composing. From 2016 to 2020, he wrote 12 two-voice Inventions for harpsichord, Symphony-capriccio for the quartet of guitars and chamber orchestra “Tetragon”, “ARRY” for string orchestra, “EQVIN” for Violin and Piano, “STR-O(r)GAN” for organ. He lives and works in the United States of America since 1990. The composer has repeatedly delivered lectures and talks on the music of modern Ukraine (at the universities and colleges of the states of New York, Mass., Illinois, Florida, Oklahoma).
