Zagortsev, Volodymyr Mikolayevich

Zagortsev [Zagórtsiff] (Zahortsev), Volodymyr Mikolayevich (10–27–1944, Kiev). Ukrainian comp. Zagortsev studied composition with Lyatoshinsky and Shtogarenko at the P. Chaikovsky Cons. in Kiev, graduating in 1968. He is the youngest member of a group of composers, most of whom were students of Lyatoshinsky at the time, which in the early 1960s became known as the Kiev Avant-garde. Part of a movement that began in the Soviet Union around 1959, this group embodied a radical departure from…