Dmytro Ostapenko

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.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Ivanovych and the family name is Ostapenko.

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
Novachyka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1973–?)
Alma materKharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts

Biography

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

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

References
  1. "Остапенко Дмитро Іванович" (in Ukrainian). Ministry of culture of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010.
  2. "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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