Nataliya Polovynka

Nataliya Yukhymivna Polovynka (born 27 July 1965) is a Ukrainian soprano singer, actress in theater and movies, educator, and director of theater who won the Shevchenko National Prize in 2006, She plays classical music, old spiritual tunes from Ukraine, and traditional Ukrainian melodies.

Early life and education Born on 27 July 1965, in the Ukrainian village of Olhopil. Nataliya went to Mykola Leontovych Vinnytsia Music School from 1980 to 1984, and later took piano classes with professor Maria Tarnavetska at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy from 1984 to 1989.

Career Nataliya is the director of the theater center "Slovo i Holos" (Lviv) and has starring parts in movies of the filmsBrothers. She has collaborated with the International Jerzy Grotowski International Institute, the Lviv and Kyiv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras, the Symphonic Orchestra of Lviv Opera, the State Male Choir Dudaryk, the State Men's M. Revutskyj Choir, the capella Dumka, and Cantus. Пісні Вітру (2008) Квітка- невіста (2001) Вість літа (2001) Земля – Пісня (2023) Сад Божественних Пісень (2022)

Other works Nataliya has taught at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University (US), University of Wales (UK), and the Jerzy Grotowski International Institute (Poland). Theatrical Figure of the Year (2004) Lviv Theatrical Figure of the Year (1999)