Biography
Yuriy Oliynyk was born in 1931 in Ternopil, Ukraine. He was the son of a Ukrainian lawyer and started studying piano at the age of seven. During World War II, his family was forced to flee from their home to Austria, and later Germany.
In 1950, Yuriy Oliynyk emigrated to the United States. He received a degree in piano as a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a degree in musicology as a Master of Arts from the Case Western Reserve University.
Yuriy Oliynyk has taught music in many places and is currently a teacher of music at the American River College in Sacramento, California. He was the first president of the Ukrainian Heritage Club of Northern California.
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