Myroslav Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, born in Lviv. His family was deported to Siberia in 1947, and he returned to Lviv in 1955 before studying in Moscow and settling in Kyiv from 1966, where he was based for most of his career, with a period living in Australia from 1996 to 1999. His large output spans symphonic and chamber works, film scores for more than 40 films, ballet, opera—including Moses (2001), the first Ukrainian opera on a biblical subject composed in nearly a century—and numerous violin concertos, and he is especially remembered for the popular short piece "Melody" (1981). He died in Kyiv in 2020.

Skoryk is considered one of the leading Ukrainian composers of his generation, blending contemporary compositional techniques with Ukrainian folk material across an unusually broad and prolific catalog. Honored as a People’s Artist of Ukraine and posthumously as a Hero of Ukraine, he is remembered both for his concert works and for "Melody," which became one of the best-known pieces of Ukrainian music worldwide.

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