Hanna Oleksiivna Havrylets (11 April 195827 February 2022, ) was a Ukrainian composer.

Biography

She was born in , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR and received her early music education in her native village from Vasyl Kufliuk. She graduated from the

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in 1958 where she studied with Volodymyr Flys. She continued her studies at the

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with

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, which she completed in 1984. In 1985, Havrylets became a member of the Composers' Union of Ukraine. She worked as a reviewer, and then took a position teaching at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in 1992. She was awarded the Ukrainian

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in 1999 and became a

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in 2005. Havrylets went on to obtain numerous prizes and win several competitions including the Ivanna and Marian Kots International Competition for Composers (1995), the "Spiritual Psalms of the Third Millennium" Competition (2001), the choral festival “The Gold-Domed Kyiv” (2001), the Vedelart prize "Kyiv" (2005), the

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(2008), and the St. Volodymyr Order (2005). In 2017, Havrylets was elected as a corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Havrylets died in

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on 27 February 2022, the third day of

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, at the age of 63. She suffered from an aneurysm and was unable to get medical help in time due to the ongoing conflict.

Selected works

Havrylets composed symphonic, chamber and choral works. *''Choral'' for string orchestra (2005) *''Stabat mater'' for mixed chorus and orchestra (2002) *''A-Corde'', Sinfonietta for viola and string orchestra (2002) *''Pohlyad v dytynstvo'' (A Glimpse of Childhood), Chamber Cantata (1990) *Piano Concerto (1982) *''Symphonic Poem'' (1983) *Viola Concerto (1984) *Symphony No. 1 (1989) *''Chamber Symphony No. 2 "In memoriam"'' (1995) *''Ėlegiya'' for string quartet (1981) *Woodwind Quintet No. 1 (1984) *Sonata for viola and piano (1988) *Woodwind Quintet No. 2 (1990) *''Sax Quartet'' (1992) *''Rapsodiya-dialog'' for flute and piano (1993) *''Ekslibrysy'' for violin (1994) *''In B'' for saxophone (1995) *''Autumn Music'' for saxophone and piano (1996) *String Quartet (1996)

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