Mykola Diadiura

Ukrainian conductor born in Kyiv. His conducting career began in 1987, when he received a special award from the Japanese Conductors Association at the International Conducting Competition in Tokyo. After the competition, he was invited by the world-famous Seiji Ozawa for an internship in the United States, where he studied with Ozawa, Bernstein and A. Previn.

Since 1988, he has worked as a conductor, and since 2011 as the music director of the National Opera of Ukraine, in 1996 he became the chief conductor of the National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. With the National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Mykola Diadiura has made numerous concert tours to Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland and Turkey.

Since 2022, he has been the artistic director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Bydgoszcz.

Mykola Diadiura was awarded, among others, the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine (1998), Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature (France, 2005), the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (2011) and the Stella d’Italia Cavaliere (Italy, 2015).