Larysa Horichenko-Balema is a Ukrainian professional cellist who graduated from Lviv National Music Academy named by M. Lysenko in 2003 and has a MD in Performing Art. In 2006 she graduated from Khmelnytskyi Pedagogical Institute and received a Master’s degree in Pedagogy. During that period and later, she took part in many competitions and festivals and performed as a soloist with orchestras.
Her professional career in Ukraine has included work with many Ukrainian composers and she was the first interpreter of some of their music. The most well-known composers with whom she was connected are Yuri Laniuk (the cello professor), Myroslav Skoryk, and Toto Cutugno. During her orchestra career, while she was a principal cellist of some chamber and symphony orchestras, she worked with European well-known conductors such as Mykola Balema, Volodymyr Sirenko, Michael Scherbakov, Woytec Mrozek, Saulus Sondeckis, Roman Rewakowicz, and others.
In Ukraine, in a period of 2003-2017, Larysa worked as a professor of cello class at Kryvyi Rih Music College, taught music theory and reading of orchestra scores, and chamber ensembles, and lectured in pedagogical institutes; was on a jury team of some youth competitions; and published some science articles.
Since 2018 she has performed in European countries, Turkey, and Middle Eastern countries with different chamber ensembles, groups, bands, and show orchestras.
Larysa moved to the USA in October 2022 because of the war in Ukraine to start a new life and help her family and people as much as she can. She continues performing and teaching at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas.
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