Yurii Radko

Yurii Radko - (born August 22, 1990, in Chortkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian film score composer, musician, and educator. He holds a PhD in Arts (Doctor of Philosophy).
==Biography==
Yurii Radko was born on August 22, 1990, in the city of Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. He graduated from Chortkiv Humanitarian-Pedagogical College in 2009 with a diploma of junior specialist with honors. He also earned a Bachelor's degree (2013) and a Master's degree (2014) in Music Art with honors from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
He studied in the postgraduate program at this university, but defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Stylistic Evolution of the Genre of Accordion Sonata in Eastern Slavic Instrumental Art of the Second Half of the 20th - Early 21st Centurieshttps://lnma.edu.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/avtoreferat-radko.pdf" in the field of Musical Art at the specialized academic council of Lviv National Music Academy named after M. V. Lysenko in 2019.
==Academic Activity==
Yurii Radko is an active participant in international and national scientific conferences, and his research has been published in Ukrainian and international scholarly journals. The main areas of his scientific work include timbral dramaturgy and the development of the bayan sonata genre, as well as research on binaural rhythms and music therapy.
===Major Scientific Works===
* "An Experimental Study of the Influence of Binaural Rhythms on Students of Music Majors: Positive and Negative Aspects." Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science (2023).
* "Binaural Rhythms in Music Therapy: A Source Studies Aspect." Fine Art and Culture Studies (2023).
* "Timbral Dramaturgy in Reflecting the Artistic Imagery of the Accordion Sonata" (2018).
* "Historiography of the Emergence and Development of the Accordion Sonata Genre" (2017).
* "Modifications of the Accordion Sonata Based on the Genre Synthesis of Poem and Ballad" (2016).
* "Unique Formative and Interpretative Features of the Accordion Sonata by Yefrem Podhayets" (2015).
* "Common Features of Interpretative Performance in Works for Accordion by Vladislav Zolotaryov" (2015).
* "Interpretative and Formative Aspects of the Accordion Sonatas of Anatoliy Kusiakov" (2015).
* "Sonata for Accordion in the Works of Ukrainian Composers: To the Problem Statement" (2014).
==Creative Work==
Yurii Radko is a composer and sound designer in the film and television industry. He has created music for six feature films, including Roadkill, I Rise, and Eldritch USA. His score for Roadkill received critical acclaim for its ability to convey feelings of isolation and tension, creating an atmosphere of unease.
He composed the music for the short film Home, which explores the theme of humanity's destruction of its only home. The film Home won at the Goa Short Film Festival (2021, Best International Short Film) and the Europe Film Festival U.K. (2021, Best Creative Short), and it was nominated at nine other festivals. For his work on the short film Echoes, Yurii Radko won the "Best Composer for Short Film" award at the Bridge Fest Awards 2024 in Vancouver, Canada. Additionally, Yurii Radko creates electronic music and is involved in music therapy, specifically creating meditative compositions using binaural rhythms.
==Singles==
* 2019 — "Air"
* 2020 — "Molfar"
* 2022 — "I Can Fly"
* 2023 — "Expectance"
* 2023 — "Corn"
* 2023 — "Moonlight"
* 2023 — "Reflection"
* 2024 — "Ethereal Waves"
==Awards==
* "Best Composer for Short Film" award at the Bridge Fest Awards (2024).
* First Prize at the International Competition for Bayanists and Accordionists "Perpetuum Mobile" (Drohobych, Ukraine).
* First Prize at the All-Ukrainian Festival "Merezhyvo" (Rivne, Ukraine).
* Second Prize at the International Competition for Bayanists and Accordionists "InterSvitiaz Accomuzik" (Lutsk, Ukraine).
==Film score composer and sound designer==
Year 	Film 	Role 	Type of film
2021 	Good Intentions 	Sound Designer 	Feature Film
2021 	Home 	Composer 	Short Film
2022 	Prohibited Life 	Composer, Sound Designer	Short Film
2022 	Artificial Selection 	Composer 	Short Film
2022 	Roadkill 	Composer 	Feature Film
2022 	I Rise 	Composer 	Feature Film
2023 	Eldritch USA 	Composer 	Feature Film
2023 	The Exchange 	Composer 	Short Film
Upcoming	Faith 	Composer 	Feature Film
Upcoming	The Lemonade Files: An Untold Story of the Missing Shoes	Composer 	Feature Film
Upcoming	Wrinkles 	Composer 	Short Film
Upcoming	Secret of Bog Lake 	Composer, Sound Designer	Feature Film
Upcoming	Echoes 	Composer, Sound Designer	Short Film
Upcoming	Trapped Magic: The Broken Blade 	Composer 	Short Film
Category:1990 births
Category:People from Chortkiv
Category:Ukrainian people
Category:Composers 
Category:Sound designers
Category:Musicians