Artist
Vladimir Sheiko
Biography
Vladimir Sheiko, also known as Volodymyr Sheiko, is a Ukrainian conductor from Kharkiv. He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in opera-symphonic and choral conducting in 1988 and subsequently undertook advanced training at the Bolshoi Theatre. He founded the Ukraine Symphony Orchestra in 1990 and became chief conductor of the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2005. His work has included opera and operetta productions, international touring, broadcast projects and recordings for Ukraine’s national radio archive.
On this album he conducts Antonyuk’s Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 and the cantata on poems by Alexander Pushkin.