Education
He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition.
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Roman Yakub
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Career
In 1997, Yakub became a runner-up in the ALEA III International Composition Competition. In 2003, Roman Yakub received a National Telly Award for the music to the television commercial promoting a new concert venue for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He was also a recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers annual Composer Award (2002-2010) and fellow of the MacDowell Colony (2000).
Yakub"s music has been performed in the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Kiev, Yerevan, Baku, Lviv, etc), as well as in the United States of America, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany.
His music has been commissioned by New York City festivals "Bridge" and "Bachanalia", Massachusetts University, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ministry of Culture of Russia, and by numerous theater and television companies. He has taught music in various music schools throughout Russia, Ukraine and the United States. He was a faculty member at Boston University, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and Voronezh Academy of Arts among others
Yakub"s music is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing.
Achievements
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In 1991, he moved to the United States, where he earned a master"s degree in music composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in composition at Boston University., In 2006, he won First Prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition for "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod".
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Died
2010 (aged 52)