Bohdan Vakhnianyn

Bohdan Vakhnianyn [Богдaн Вaхнянин], (b. in 1886 in Stryi, Lviv region; d. January 18, 1940, in Lviv). Composer and conductor of the “Boyan” singing society in Peremyshl.  The son of musician Ivan Vakhnianyn, and nephew of Anatol Vakhnianyn, one of the founders of the first “Boyan” singing society. He studied music theory and composition with his uncle Anatol and Stanislav Liudkevych. He worked his whole life as a teacher in the gymnasia and music schools of the area around Lviv. He died in Lviv and is buried in the family gravesite in Plot #72 of Lychakiv Cemetery.

1920s: Conductor of “Boyan” singing society in Peremyshl.