Nina Mytrofanivna Matviyenko , a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine

People's Artist of Ukraine

People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts ....

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Matviyenko was born on October 10, 1947 in village of Nedilytse, Yemilchyne Raion

Yemilchyne Raion

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, Zhytomyr Oblast

Zhytomyr Oblast

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 at the time in the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

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 in the Soviet Union

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 (today - Ukraine

Ukraine

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). She completed her studies in Ukrainian philology at the Kiev University

Kiev University

Taras Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , colloquially known in Ukrainian as KNU is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is the third oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and Kharkiv University. Currently, its structure...

 in 1975. In 1968 she entered the vocal studio of the Ukrainian State Folk Choir named after Hryhory Veriovka and soon became a soloist. In 1988 she received the Shevchenko National Prize

Shevchenko National Prize

Shevchenko National Prize , the highest award given for works of art and literature in Ukraine. It is named after the Spiritual leader of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko.-History:...

, a Ukrainian State prize named after Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...

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Her repertoire includes numerous Ukrainian folk songs. Nina is the first performer of works by the composers Yevhen Stankovych

Yevhen Stankovych

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, Myroslav Skoryk

Myroslav Skoryk

Myroslav Skoryk is a famous Ukrainian composer of diverse and impressive compositions. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from two disparate folk traditions: Ukrainian and American.- Early life :...

, Iryna Kyrylina

Iryna Kyrylina

Iryna Kyrylina is a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied with R.I. Vereschagin at the Kiev Musical College, and with M.V. Dremlyuga at the Kiev Conservatory, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she taught at a Kiev Music School and directed children’s...

, Hanna Havrylets and many others.
She has performed on television in numerous films and on radio.

From 1966-1991 she 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 the Kiev camerata orchestra, and the Kostyantyn Chechenya Early Music

Early music

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 Ensemble.

She has performed in Mexico

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, Canada

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, the United States

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, Czechoslovakia

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, Poland

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, Finland

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, Korea

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, France

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, Latin America

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. She has numerous recordings of Ukrainian folk songs.