Mykola Dyadyura was born on August 5,1961 in Kyiv. He received his professional musical education at Kyiv Gliere State College and the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Conducting under prominent conductor -Roman Kofman). He studied at Tanglewood Music Center (USA) under the guidance of Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein.
Mr. Dyadura received International recognition in 1987 and 1988 when he became a laureate of the Ferencik International Conductors Competition in Budapest and the "Min-On" International Conductors Competition in Tokyo (4th prize and Special Prize of the Association of Japanese conductors ).
He began his conducting career as Principal Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Omsk, the Syberian Philarmonic. From 1991 to 1996 he was the Principal Conductor' of Seoul Symphony Orchestra (South Korea).
Today Mykola Dyadyura occupies the post of Principal Conductor of the National Philarmonia of Ukraine and conductor of National Opera of Ukraine.
Kirill Karabyts was born in 1976 in Kiev. Finished Kiev Lysenko Secondary Musical School (choir and orchestral department). Currently he is studying at P.Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine in Kiev (Prof. Roman Kofman -orchestral conducting and Prof. Lev Venediktov -choral conducting). Since October 1998 he has been studying as graduate student of orchestral deparment of Vienna Academy of Music. In 1995-1996 he studied in Bach Academy , Shtuttgart (Germany), and took International course / master-classes for conductors at "Manuel de Falla Music Festival" (Spain).
He has awards of prestigious music competitions: Prize of Danish Conductors' Association, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 1998); Cultural Award of Austrian Albert Schweitzer Union, Vienna, Austria (October 1998); Medal "Star of Europe" of the "Foundation of Europe" awarded in Brussels, Belgium, by Prince Henrik of Denmark.
Principal Guest Conductor of Ukrainian State Ensemble of Soloists "Kyiv Camerata", associate conductor of Budapest Festival Orchestra (musical director Ivan Fischer) and assistant conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of Kyiv National Philharmony.
