Mykola Hobdych

Choral conductor Mykola Hobdych is best known as the founder and director of the Kyiv Chamber Choir. In 1990, Hobdych joined with a group of other Kyiv Conservatory graduates to form the Kyiv Chamber Choir. The group was successful from the start. Hobdych and the Kyiv Chamber Choir have made some 40 albums. An early effort distributed in the West was a recording of Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, released in 1997. Hobdych researched, edited, performed, and recorded a variety of Ukrainian works dating as far back as the Middle Ages, with the result that some 40 percent of the music on his recordings were world premieres. In 2019, Hobdych and the Kyiv Chamber Choir released the album Sacred Treasures: Masterpieces of Ukrainian Choral Music - XV-XIX Centuries; in 2022, the release became a best-seller.