Lesia Dychko

Lesia Vasylivna Dychko (Ukrainian: Леся Василівна Дичко), originally Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko (born 24 October 1939) is a Ukrainian composer and music educator.

In 1964 she graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in composition, studying with the composers Konstantyn Dankevych and Borys Lyatoshynsky.

In 1993, Dychko took a position at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music,[1] She became a professor there at in 2009.

She received the Mykola Ostrovsky LKSMU Republican Award [uk] in 1970, and the Shevchenko National Prize in 1989.

She composes for orchestral, choral and instrumental performance including flute, violin, organ and piano.