Діана Петриненко

(08.02.1930 - 17.11.2018) Born February 8, 1930 in the village Belousovka (Ukraine). She graduated from the Kiev Music College (nowadays the Gliere Institute of Music in Kiev), in 1955 - the Tchaikovsky State Academic Choir named after M. I. Egorichev, in 1961 - postgraduate studies at the Conservatory. In 1955-1958 - soloist of the State Academic Choir of the Ukrainian SSR "Dumka", in 1962-1988 - the Kyiv Philharmonic. Since 1961 - works in National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky as Associate Professor (1981) and Professor (1985).