Cherkasy Academic Folk Choir

Cherkasy Television. The program "50 Years of Songs" from February 2, 2007 is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Cherkasy State Academic Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir.

On the video: landscapes of Cherkasy region, archival recordings of performances of the Cherkasy State Academic Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir; Honored Artists of Ukraine talk about the collective and congratulate its participants; rehearsal of the performance, performance of songs to poems by Taras Shevchenko.

Comments: artistic director of the Pavlo Virsky National Dance Ensemble of Ukraine Myroslav Vantukh; poet, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Dnipro", Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykola Lukiv; writer Serhiy Nosan; director of the Cherkasy Regional Philharmonic, Honored Artist of Ukraine Antanas Petrauskas; General Director and Artistic Director of the National Honored Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir of Ukraine named after Hryhoriy Veryovka, Hero of Ukraine Anatoliy Avdievsky; Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykola Negoda; Artistic Director of the Cherkasy State Academic Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir Leonid Trofymenko; Choir soloist Viktor Hnylokvas.

Reference: The Cherkasy State Academic Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir is a professional musical group created in 1957 at the Cherkasy Regional Philharmonic. The group has become one of the leading representatives of Ukrainian choral art, known for performing folk and author's songs in artistic arrangements. Among its most famous soloists are People's Artists of Ukraine Olga Pavlovska and Raisa Kyrychenko, as well as composer and conductor Anatoliy Pashkevych.