Vitalii Kyreiko

Vitaliy Dmytrovych Kyreyko (23 December 192619 October 2016) was a Ukrainian composer.

He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition from L. Revutsky (1944-1949), where he also completed his postgraduate studies (1952). His other accomplishments include: 1949-88 - Lecturer, Associate Professor (1961), Professor (1978) of the Kyiv Conservatory, and Candidate of Art History (1953).

Selected works Operas: The Forest Song, an adaptation of the play by Lesia Ukrainka (1957), On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs, an adaptation of the novelette by Olha Kobylianska (1966), Marko in Hell (1966) The Boyar Woman (2003) Ballets: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, an adaptation of the novella by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1960), The Witch (1967), The Orgy (1977), based on the play by Lesia Ukrainka