Vitaliy Kyreiko

Vitaliy Kyreiko (23 December 1926 - 19 October 2016) was a Ukrainian composer.

He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition from L. Revutsky (1944-1949), where he also completed his postgraduate studies (1952). His other accomplishments include: 1949-88 - Lecturer, Associate Professor (1961), Professor (1978) of the Kyiv Conservatory, and Candidate of Art History (1953).

Selected works
Operas: Ballets:
 * The Forest Song, an adaptation of the play by Lesia Ukrainka (1957),
 * On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs, an adaptation of the novelette by Olha Kobylianska (1966),
 * Marko in Hell (1966)
 * The Boyar Woman (2003)
 * Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, an adaptation of the novella by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1960),
 * The Witch (1967),
 * The Orgy (1977), based on the play by Lesia Ukrainka