General Manager of The Kharkiv Philharmonic Society,
Music Director & Principal Conductor of The Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra,
Honoured Worker of Arts of Ukraine,
First Prize winner of The International Vakhtang Jordania Conducting Competition
Outstanding masterly performance, intimate knowledge of musical styles and national schools inhere in Yuri Yanko’s art. Clear gesture, emotionality, artistry, exactingness to the orchestra makes him one of the best Ukrainian conductors.
Born in Kharkiv, Yuri Yanko completed the first part of his musical studies in his native town at the Special Music School (1980). He continued his education at the Kharkiv University of Arts (1985) and The Kyiv National Conservatory (1991), studying operatic & symphonic conducting with Turchak, Dushchenko, Jordania.
Yanko has worked as Conductor of Academical Philharmonic Orchestra of Zaporizhya (1991-1994), Music Director and Conductor of The Kharkiv Special Music School’s Chamber Orchestra (1999-2004). Since 1994 – TheKharkivOperaHouse’sConductor, where he has staged several performances.
Since 2001 Yuri Yanko has worked as Music Director and Principal Conductor of The Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2004 he was appointed General Manager of The Kharkiv Philharmonic Society (involves several different musical collectives, including the Orchestra).
Yuri Yanko is at educational work, has received The Kharkiv Regional Government Diplomas (2002, 2006), Kharkiv Mayor’s supreme award “For Zeal” (2004). He has been annual laureate of regional rate (Kharkiver of year” for 6 years (2001-2006), and prize-winner of the “Public Recognition” prize (2004).
Well-known musicians of the present – Dmitri Bashkirov, Bogodar Kotorovitch, Vladimir Kraynev, Daniel Kramer, Yuri Loyevsky, Nikolay Petrov, Sergey Stadler, Naum Shtarkman, Alexander Kniazev, and many others – appreciate Yanko’s conducting mastery. He has conducted with National Symphonic Orchestras of Ukraine, Moldova, with numerous Russian and Ukrainian orchestras, his performing art is known to listeners of many countries: Holland, Egypt, Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Poland, Russia, USA, France, Switzerland