It’s with disappointment that we inform you that on the age of 84, academician of the Nationwide Academy of Arts of Ukraine, professor and head of the Division of Theater Research and Performing, Dean of the College of Tradition and Arts (2004–2010) of the Ivan Franko Nationwide College of Lviv Bohdan Mykolayovych Kozak has handed away. .
Individuals’s Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Nationwide Prize of Ukraine named following T. Shevchenko and the Prize named following Y. Hirnyak of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, full knight of the Order of Benefit and awarded with the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Smart (fifth and 4th levels), energetic member of the Scientific Society named following Shevchenko Bohdan Kozak was born in Lviv on November 27, 1940.
In 1971, he graduated from the philological college of Lviv College, in addition to an performing studio on the Lviv Ukrainian Drama Theater named following M. Zankovetska in 1963 (now the Nationwide Tutorial Ukrainian Drama Theater named following Maria Zankovetska). Since 1963, he labored as an actor on this theater, engaged in pedagogical work on the theater in 1978–1986 and on the Larger Music Institute in Lviv in 1990–1998 (now Mykola Lysenko Lviv Nationwide Academy of Music), as a director he staged quite a few performances, memorial evenings and concert events
In 1999, Bohdan Kozak turned the principle initiator and one of many founders of the Division of Theater Research and Performing on the College of Philology of Ivan Franko Nationwide College of Lviv. It was he, as a trainer, who recruited and graduated the primary performing course at Lviv College. He educated a number of generations of theater and movie actors, his graduates are right now the main actors of Ukrainian theaters. And in 2004, Bohdan Kozak headed the newly fashioned College of Tradition and Arts.
In 2001, on the division, and later on the college, Bohdan Kozak initiated the creation {of professional} publications – the theater journal “Proscenium” and the scientific periodical “Visnyk of Lviv College. Artwork historical past sequence”, and for a very long time he was the editor-in-chief of those publications. As well as, Bohdan Kozak was a member and energetic participant within the work of the editorial board of the revered artwork publication “Notes of the Scientific Society named following Shevchenko. Proceedings of the Theatrical Fee” (Ukraine) and different publications.
Bohdan Kozak was the writer of the concept of creating a lot of the scientific, well-liked science and academic and methodological publications of the Division of Theater Research and Performing, and later – different publications of the College of Tradition and Arts. His work as a compiler, writer of feedback and introductory articles, translator of quite a few publications is a useful contribution to the institution and improvement of theater training at Lviv College. Bohdan Kozak’s works as a scientist embrace the books “Theatrical Echoes” (2010), “Within the Labyrinths of Ukrainian Theater Historical past” (2020) and quite a few articles in periodicals.
Bohdan Kozak established shut cooperation between the Division of Theater Research and Performing with educational establishments in Poland and Austria. Because of his efforts, educational exchanges with the colleges of Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow and Vienna have been organized. Contacts with Ukrainian communities within the USA and Canada additionally resulted in quite a few efficiently carried out scientific initiatives.
With out exaggeration, Bohdan Mykolayovych Kozak is the Father of the Division of Theater Research and Performing and of the College of Tradition and Arts of Ivan Franko Nationwide College of Lviv! A pal and mentor for a lot of, many colleagues and acquaintances, an instance to observe. His associates and colleagues will endlessly bear in mind his shiny picture.
The educational group of the Ivan Franko Lviv Nationwide College expresses its honest condolences to the spouse Marta, son Nazarov and daughter Marta and their households, all family, associates, and colleagues of Bohdan Kozak.
Everlasting reminiscence to him…
Parastas can be held right now, Could 28, at 7:00 p.m. within the Church of the Holy Trinity (Tershakivtsiv St., 11a).
Funeral service – Could 29:
- at 09:00 within the Holy Trinity Church,
- from 10:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. farewell on the Maria Zankovetska Nationwide Theater,
- at 12:00 p.m. burial on the Lychakiv cemetery.
