Nina Matviienko Ніна Матвієнко | |
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| Birth name | Nina Mytrofanivna MatviienkoUkrainian:Матвієнко Ніна |
| Born | (1947-10-10)October 10, 1947 Nedilyshche,Yemilchyne Raion,Zhytomyr Oblast,Ukrainian SSR,USSR, (nowUkraine) |
| Died | October 8, 2023(2023-10-08) (aged 75) Kyiv,Ukraine |
| Genres | Folk,pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1968-2023 |
Nina Mytrofanivna Matviienko (Ukrainian:Ніна Митрофанівна Матвієнко; 10 October 1947 – 8 October 2023) was a Ukrainian singer,People's Artist of Ukraine.
Matviienko was born on 10 October 1947 in village of Nedilyshche,Yemilchyne Raion,Zhytomyr Oblast at the time in theUkrainian SSR in theSoviet Union (today Ukraine).[1] She was the fifth of eleven siblings, her mother was Antonina Ilkivna and father, Mytrofan Ustynovych. She began at a local residential school, then worked as a copyist and then a crane-operator's assistant.[2] She completed her studies in Ukrainian philology at theKyiv University in 1975. She had previously entered the vocal studio of theUkrainian State Folk Choir named afterHryhory Veriovka in 1968, before becoming a soloist.[3] She married Petro Honchar and had three children: Ivan, who later joined a monastery,[4] Andriy and Antonina; she later divorced him.[5]
In 1988 she received theShevchenko National Prize, a Ukrainian State prize named afterTaras Shevchenko,[2] and also acted inYuri Ilyenko's Ukraine war drama filmSolomennye Kolokola.[6]
Her repertoire includes numerous Ukrainian folk songs. Nina is the first performer of works by the composersYevhen Stankovych,Myroslav Skoryk,Iryna Kyrylina,Hanna Havrylets and many others. She has performed on television in numerous films and on radio.[7]
From 1966 to 1991, Matviienko was a soloist of the Ukrainian State Folk Choir. From 1968 a member of the folk trio "Zoloti kliuchi". In recent times she has been performing with theKyiv Camerata orchestra, and the Kostyantyn ChechenyaEarly Music Ensemble.[7]
Matviienko performed in Mexico, Canada, the United States,Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland,Korea, France, Latin America. She has numerous recordings of Ukrainian folk songs.[8] Her life and philosophy of female equality was inspiration for singer, Yuliana Prado.[9] In 2009, she published a book (of about 250 folk songs), about her life and career, and her love of the 'soul music' of her native land. In reviewing her work, the academic Mykola Zhulynsky from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature described Matviienko as someone who 'lives by songs and relishes in the song-making process, in her affinity with the song, opening for it her own soul and for the soul of the Ukrainian people after the shadows of servitude.'[10]
During the 2022Russian invasion of Ukraine, her performance ofYevhen Stankovych’s opera-balletWhentheFernBlooms, which had originally premiered in 2017 after a ban during the Soviet era, waslive-streamed by the Lviv National Opera was re-released online.[11]
Nina Matviienko died on 8 October 2023, at the age of 75.[12]
and Nina Matviienko: recording forWorld Folk Vision 2020[2]
and Nina Matviienko book 'Oi, vyoriu nyvku shyrokuiu (I’ll Plow a Broad Furrow)'[14][10]
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