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The Ukrainian conductor, composer, and cultural manager, Ivan Ostapovych (Іван Остапович), graduated in 2011 from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy as a bassoonist and composer (under the guidance of Bohdana Frolyak). He continued his studies as an opera-symphonic conductor at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (under Viktor Zdorenko), completing them in 2016.
Since 2012, Ivan Ostapovych has been a co-founder of the music agency Collegium Management. In the same year, he became the laureate of the first prize of the All-Ukrainian Conductors' Competition "Musical Tavria." From 2013 to 2016, he worked as a conductor of the Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, he became the head of the Lviv House of Organ and Chamber Music (Lviv Organ Hall), where he implemented a series of cultural, research, and concert projects. He is the artistic director of the Ukrainian Live project, a long-term strategy for promoting Ukrainian music, which was recognized by the European Association of Festivals in 2019. The project also includes a developed media platform and the world's first mobile application with Ukrainian classical music called Ukrainian Live Classic. (born in 1988) is a. He is a laureate of the Levko Revutsky National Prize of Ukraine (2021).
Ivan Ostapovych is a co-founder and conductor of the Ukrainian Festival Orchestra (Lviv). Since 2022, he has been the chief conductor of the Luhansk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, temporarily relocated to Lviv due to the full-scale war waged by Russia against Ukraine. Artistic director of the festivals LyudkevychFest, Bach-Marathon (2015), Bach Music Days in Lviv (2014), and Lviv Organ Residency.
As a conductor, Ivan Ostapovych has collaborated with the Malmo Academic Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), the chamber orchestra of the city of Kaunas (Lithuania), the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Odessa National Symphony Orchestra, the State Estrada-Symphony Orchestra, the Chernihiv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic, youth symphony orchestras INSO-Lviv and "Slobozhansky", the chamber choir "Cantus" (Uzhhorod), as well as numerous Ukrainian and foreign soloists, including pianists Vadym Kholodenko, Antonii Baryshevskyi, Denys Zhdanov, Dmytro Choni, violinists Jozsef Spacek, Orest Smovzh, Serhii Ostrovskyi, Benjamin Gilmore, and Midori.
Under the direction of Ivan Ostapovych, world premieres of works by Ukrainian composers such as Mykhailo Verbystskyi, Porfyriy Bazhanskyi, Ihor Sonevytskyi, Stefaniia Turkevych, Bohdana Frolyak, Oleksandr Shchetynskyi, Viktor Kaminskyi, Zoltan Almashi, Oleh Bezborodko, and others have taken place.
In his compositional work, Ivan Ostapovych has created Three Early Symphonies (before 2005), Preludes for Piano (2008), String Quartet (2009), Thesaurus for violin and piano (2016), Interrupted Dithyramb for solo violin (2016), Love Songs for string orchestra (2018), Interlude for organ (2022), and Symphony Tree of Dreams (2023). |
