43 Notable alumni of Lviv National Music Academy
Updated: June 03, 2026 EliteDegrees
Lviv National Music Academy is ranked #11,185 in the world and #162 in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from Lviv National Music Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Lviv National Music Academy won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. József Örmény
1960-. (aged 66)
musicologist
pianist
József Örmény is a Ukrainian pianist of Hungarian origin. He is mostly known for performing 20th-century music including Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alfred Schnittke and Ukrainian composers Yevhen Stankovych, Valentin Silvestrov, and others. He was born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, and he was also in close creative relationship with the Polish composer Andrzej Nikodemowicz, who wrote five of his piano concerti...
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2. Josef František Munclingr
1888-1954 (aged 66)
opera director
non-fiction writer
actor
translator
music educator
Josef František Munclinger, also Josef František Munclingr was a Czech operatic bass and opera stage director who had an active international career from the 1910s through the 1950s. His voice is preserved on a number of recordings made for the Ultraphon and Supraphon labels.
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3. Irena Turkevycz-Martynec
1899-1983 (aged 84)
opera singer
Irena Turkevycz-Martynec was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and came to Canada, to Winnipeg, in 1949. She was a Prima donna in the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and performed in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and many other European cities during her long and storied career.
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4. Zdzisław Jachimecki
1882-1953 (aged 71)
conductor
university teacher
musicologist
composer
music educator
Zdzisław Jachimecki was a Polish historian of music, composer, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Kraków Music Academy, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
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5. Mieczysław Sołtys
1863-1929 (aged 66)
music educator
conductor
composer
Mieczysław Sołtys was a Polish composer, conductor, teacher, music and public figure.
6. Ivan Nebesnyi
1971-. (aged 55)
composer
Ivan Vasylovych Nebesnyy is a Ukrainian composer and music producer.
7. Marianna Laba
1968-. (aged 58)
singer
Marianna Laba, born 7 September 1968) is a Ukrainian singer (soprano), Merited Artist of Ukraine, soloist of Lviv State Philharmonic and The Lviv House of Chamber and Organ music.
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8. Maria Mokrzycka
1882-1971 (aged 89)
opera singer
Maria Moscisca was a Polish operatic soprano and voice teacher. She first performed at the Lviv Opera and Warsaw Opera before she entered a career in Italy from 1909. She sang as a guest on major stages in Europe and made a tour of the U.S. in 1913. Back in Warsaw, she was a leading singer to 1932.
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9. Paula Szalit
1887-1920 (aged 33)
composer
pianist
Paulina Szalitówna, more commonly known as Paula Szalit, was a Polish pianist and composer.
10. Bohdana Frolyak
1968-. (aged 58)
composer
Bohdana Oleksiivna Frolyak is a modern Ukrainian composer.
11. Denys Sichynsky
1865-1909 (aged 44)
teacher
choir director
composer
public figure
music educator
Denys Sichynsky was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher.
12. Roman Palester
1907-1989 (aged 82)
composer
pianist
Roman Palester was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. His work was individual in style and not noticeably Polish in character.
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13. Yevheniya Dembska
1920-2019 (aged 99)
actor
singer
Yevheniya Mykhaylivna Dembska was a Ukrainian theatre and cinema actress.
14. Hanna Havrylets
1958-2022 (aged 64)
music educator
composer
Hanna Oleksiivna Havrylets was a Ukrainian composer.
15. Oleksandr Myshuha
1853-1922 (aged 69)
patron of the arts
music educator
opera singer
Aleksander Myszuga was a Ukrainian operatic tenor and voice teacher of Ukrainian descent. PLEASE CHANGE THE SPELLING OF HIS NAME. NEVER SPELL IT WITH A "G". THE NAME IS MYSHUHA" The same applies in the Ukrainian language. His niece, my mother-in-law never used the Polish or Russian spelling. Also, his nephew, the well known editor of the newspaper Svoboda in...
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16. Rostyslav Derzhypilsky
1975-. (aged 51)
actor
theatrical director
Rostyslav Lyubomyrovych Derzhypilsky is a Ukrainian theater director and actor, People's Artist of Ukraine, and the artistic director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.
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17. Bertha Kalich
1874-1939 (aged 65)
stage actor
actor
film actor
musician
Bertha Kalich was a Jewish-American actress. Though she was well-established as an entertainer in Eastern Europe, she is best remembered as one of the several "larger-than-life" figures that dominated New York stages during the "Golden Age" of American Yiddish Theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Historians estimate that, during her career, Kalich performed more than 125 different...
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18. Zofia Lissa
1908-1980 (aged 72)
diplomat
music educator
musicologist
Zofia Lissa was a Polish music educator and musicologist.
19. Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska
1888-1979 (aged 91)
scout leader
Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska, with her husband, founded scouting in Poland.
20. Aleksander Michałowski
1851-1938 (aged 87)
pianist
music educator
composer
Aleksander Michałowski was a Polish pianist, pedagogue, and composer.
21. Marcella Sembrich
1858-1935 (aged 77)
pianist
opera singer
violinist
music educator
Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska, known professionally as Marcella Sembrich, was a Polish dramatic coloratura soprano. She is known for her extensive range of two and a half octaves, precise intonation, charm, portamento, vocal fluidity, and impressive coloratura. Her voice was regarded as flute-like, sweet, pure, light, and brilliant. She had an important international singing career, chiefly at the New York Metropolitan...
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22. Jerzy Broszkiewicz
1922-1993 (aged 71)
writer
science fiction writer
children's writer
playwright
Jerzy Broszkiewicz was a Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and publicist. He is best known for his dramas and young-adult literature. The young-adult literature usually took the form of historical or science-fiction novels. The dramas were performed in Poland and abroad, and his works were translated into at least 20 languages, with total print runs exceeding a million copies.
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23. Adamo Didur
1874-1946 (aged 72)
opera singer
Adam Didur or Adamo Didur was a famous Polish operatic bass singer. He sang extensively in Europe and had a major career at New York's Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1932.
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24. Eduard Steuermann
1892-1964 (aged 72)
composer
pianist
music educator
university teacher
Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian-born American pianist and composer.
25. Raoul Koczalski
1884-1948 (aged 64)
composer
pianist
Raoul Armand Jerzy Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski.
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26. Pavlo Tabakov
1978-. (aged 48)
singer
music arranger
composer
Pavlo Anatoliyovych Tabakov is a Ukrainian singer, musician, composer and arranger. Known for a vocal range of three octaves, he was the winner of the fifth season of the Ukrainian TV project Chance. He was a semifinalist of the second season of the show Ukraine's got talent. The winner of the TV project The Voice of Ukraine in the team...
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27. Pavlo Dvorsky
1953-. (aged 73)
composer
singer
Pavlo Ananiyovych Dvorsky (Ukrainian: Павло Ананійович Дворський is a Ukrainian singer and composer. He was named People's Artist of Ukraine in 1994.
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28. Irma Vitovska
1974-. (aged 52)
television presenter
stage actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Irma Hryhorivna Vitovska is a Ukrainian theater and film actress, producer and public figure, Honored Artist of Ukraine (2016). She has worked at the Young Theater since 1998, and is best known for her role as Lesya in the Ukrainian comedy TV series Lesya+Roma (2005-2007).
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29. Ida Fink
1921-2011 (aged 90)
writer
short story writer
Ida Fink was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish. Winner of the Israel Prize for Fiction in 2008.
30. Vasyl Barvinsky
1888-1963 (aged 75)
composer
Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure.
31. Taras Chubay
1970-. (aged 56)
composer
poet
guitarist
singer
Taras Hryhorovych Chubay, (born on 21 June 1970 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian musician and poet, singer and composer, leader of the Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiyi.
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32. Mieczysław Horszowski
1892-1993 (aged 101)
pianist
pedagogue
music educator
piano teacher
Mieczysław Horszowski was a Polish and American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.
33. Moriz Rosenthal
1862-1946 (aged 84)
composer
pianist
music educator
non-fiction writer
Moriz Rosenthal was a Polish pianist and composer. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz.
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34. Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych
1898-1977 (aged 79)
composer
pianist
musicologist
music educator
Stefania Ivanivna Turkewich-Lukianovych was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist. She is recognized as Ukraine's first woman composer. In the USSR, her works were banned by the state authorities.
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35. Stefan Askenase
1896-1985 (aged 89)
pianist
musicologist
music educator
university teacher
Stefan Askenase was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue.
36. Ruslana Lyzhychko
1973-. (aged 53)
composer
pianist
actor
radio personality
conductor
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, known mononymously as Ruslana, is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, producer, activist and former politician. She is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. She is also a former MP serving as deputy in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) for the Our Ukraine Party. Ruslana was...
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37. Volodymyr Ivasyuk
1949-. (aged 77)
composer
songwriter
singer
lyricist
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasiuk was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.
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38. Solomea Krushelnytska
1872-1952 (aged 80)
opera singer
music educator
Solomiya Krushelnytska was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano, considered to be one of the brightest opera stars of the first half of the 20th century.
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39. Oksana Bilozir
1957-. (aged 69)
recording artist
politician
Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilozir, née Rozumkevych (Ukrainian: Розумкевич), is a People's Artist of Ukraine (1994), former People's Deputy of Ukraine and in 2005 Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.
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40. Vasyl Slipak
1974-2016 (aged 42)
military volunteer
volunteer
opera singer
Vasyl Yaroslavovych Slipak was a Ukrainian baritone opera singer. From 1994 he frequently performed in France at such venues as Paris Opera and Opéra Bastille. For his opera performance, Slipak received several awards, including "Best Male Performance" for the Toreador Song. A volunteer in the Ukrainian army, Slipak was killed during the war in Donbas by a Russian sniper near...
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41. Irena Anders
1920-2010 (aged 90)
stage actor
singer
actor
film actor
Irena Renata Anders, born Iryna Renata Jarosiewicz (Yarosevych), was a Polish-Ukrainian stage actress and singer. During World War II she performed with Henryk Wars' troupe and later with the Polska Parada (Polish Parade) band, entertaining the Polish Armed Forces in the West (commanded by General Władysław Anders, her future husband). She was one of the first singers to perform the...
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42. Zhou Shen
1992-. (aged 34)
recording artist
singer
Zhou Shen, also known as Charlie Zhou, is a Chinese singer. Known for his unique voice and wide vocal range, he gained prominence with his renowned song "Big Fish". In May 2024, he released his second album Shenself and sold over 1 million digital copies in a week. He has performed OSTs for numerous high-profile Chinese films and TV series,...
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43. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
1919-1994 (aged 75)
university teacher
designer
graphic designer
composer
graphic artist
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, born Roman Haubenstock was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.