Ihor Sonevytsky

Ihor Sonevytsky (Ukrainian: Ігор Михайлович Соневицький) (1926–2006) was a Ukrainian-born composer, conductor, pianist and musicologist.

He studied at the Vienna Musical Academy and completed his musical studies with a diploma in composition, conducting and piano performance from the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik, Munich (1950) and the Ukrainian Free University, Munich (1961).

There he became a cofounder of the Ukrainian Music Institute of America,[1] and served as its director from 1959 to 1961.

In 1983 he established the Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene County, New York.

[3][4] He is the author of the opera "Star", the ballet "Cinderella", some chamber music, a series of piano works and a catalogue of choral and vocal music.