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Dmytro Ostapenko

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Dmytro Ostapenko
Дмитро Остапенко
Ostapenko in 2019
Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine
In office
25 September 1995 – 4 August 1999
Preceded byIvan Dziuba
Succeeded byBohdan Stupka
Personal details
Born (1946-11-03) 3 November 1946 (age 77)
Novachyka [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1973–?)
Alma materKharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts

Dmytro Ivanovych Ostapenko (Ukrainian: Дмито Іванович Остапенко; born 3 November 1946) is a Ukrainian conductor and politician who is currently director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. He is also a former Minister of Culture of Ukraine, having served from 1995 to 1999.

Biography

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Dmytro Ostapenko was born in Novachykha village, Poltava Oblast. In 1968 was graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts.[1]

From 1973 to 1977 he worked in the Kharkiv regional committee of the Young Communist League and the city committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[1]

From 1977 to 1982 - Director of the Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.[1][2]

From 1982 to 1984 - Head of the Department of Theaters and Music Institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.[1][2]

From 1984 to 1991 - Instructor in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[1][2]

From 1991 to 1992 - Head of the Department of Culture of the Institute of Scientific Innovations of the Ukrainian Branch of the International Center for Scientific Culture "World Laboratory".[1][2]

From 1992 to 1995 - Director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.[1][2]

From 25 September 1995 to 4 August 1999, Ostapenko was Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine.[3][1][2] Since 1999, he has been director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.[1][2]

Family

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He has a son named Andriy Ostapenko, who is a guitarist and a soloist of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Остапенко Дмитро Іванович" (in Ukrainian). Ministry of culture of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Остапенко Дмитро Іванович" (PDF). Ukrainian music encyclopedia. Vol. 4. 2016. p. 540.
  3. ^ "On the appointment of D. Ostapenko as Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine". Ukrainian Parliament.
  4. ^ "Україна Молода :.: Видання | Дмитро Остапенко: У філармонії один я на контракті, всі решта — довічно". 15 February 2016. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
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