Igor Luchenok | |
Birth Date: | August 6, 1938 |
Birth Place: | Minsk, Belarus |
Death Place: | Minsk, Belarus |
Occupation: | Composer |
Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok (Belarusian: Iгар Міхайлавіч Лучанок, Ihar Michajlavič Lučanok, Russian: Игорь Михайлович Лученок; 6 August 1938 in Minsk — 12 November 2018 in Minsk[1]) was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (and People's Artist of the USSR), and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.[2]
Luchenok worked in various genres — vocal-symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, but most fruitfully — in song. From his works formed the repertoire of Pesniary, Syabry, Verasy, Joseph Kobzon, Sofia Rotaru, Valentina Tolkunova, Maria Pakhomenko, Lev Leshchenko, Victor Vuyachich, Eduard Khil and many others.[3]