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Dudaryk
Lviv State Academic male choir "Dudaryk" - Shevchenko National Prize laureate. Founded October 17, 1971 at the Ukrainian music and choir Society. Founder and chief conductor of the choir Honored Artist of Ukraine - Mykola Katsal, born December 10, 1940 in Grechany in Podillia. Graduated from Lviv - Polytechnic Institute ( geodesy), Music College and Conservatory (conducted by). As an amateur group existed until 1989. In 1977, only after 6 years after the founding Dudaryk already was among the finalists at the festival of art groups in the Soviet Union. Thanks to the efforts of choir of Mykola Katsal and his colleagues Lubov Katsal and Lesia Chaikivska formed in 1989 FIRST boys choir school in Ukraine - "Dudaryk".