Bozhyk, Volodymyr b 27 December 1908 in Rava Ruska, Galicia (Halychyna). Choir conductor and singer. He received a teaching certificate from the Lviv Conservatory in 1931 and graduated in music from Lviv University in 1935. From 1936 he appeared as a professional soloist, sang in ensembles (the Warsaw radio quartet until 1939), and directed various choirs. In the 1940's he was the musical director of the Stanislav Theatre. In 1945, together with Hryhory Kytasty, he reorganized and directed the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. In 1958, the Chorus toured throughout Europe with both Wolodymyr Bozhyk and Hryhory Kytasty as co-conductors. He emigrated to the United States in 1949 and conducted a choir and children's orchestra in Rochester, New York, in the 1950's. In the 1960's he conducted the Ukrainian National Choir and a church choir in Los Angeles. He is the author of various musical and choir arrangements of Ukrainian songs.