Vitaliy Hubarenko

Vitaliy Serhiyovych Hubarenko was a Ukrainian composer.

Life and works

Born in Kharkiv, he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory in 1960, where he had studied under Dmitri Klebanov. He was awarded the Ostrovsky Prize in 1967, and the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1984. His first opera, Zahybel’ eskadry brought him to public attention.
His compositions include operas, The Reluctant Matchmaker, and Remember, My Brotherhood, described as an opera-oratorio ), film music, and Pys’ma lyubvi, a cycle of four monologues for soprano and chamber ensemble.
Hubarenko died in Kyiv at age 65.