Virko Baley

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Ukrainian American composer

MusiciansBorn 1938 · age 87

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Viroslav Petrovych Baley is a Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv in Poland, the only child of Petro (Peter) and Lydia Baley.

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1996Shevchenko National Prize

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Volodymyr SirenkoAlso won Shevchenko National Prize Mykola VorobiovAlso won Shevchenko National Prize Vladimir DrozdAlso won Shevchenko National Prize

Oksana LutsyshynaAlso won Shevchenko National Prize

Volodymyr MykytaAlso won Shevchenko National Prize

Lyubov HolotaAlso won Shevchenko National Prize

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Viroslav Petrovych Baley is a Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv in Poland, the only child of Petro (Peter) and Lydia Baley. Petro Baley was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and he and extended family were relocated to Slovakia. The family was reunited on a farm in Germany towards the end of the war to work as farm laborers, after which they relocated to Munich. From 1947 to 1949, the family lived in a displaced person's camp in Regensburg, Germany.