This article is devoted to the creative work of the famous conductor, teacher and composer Yevhen Vakhniak (1912–1998) which had a significant impact on the evolution of Ukrainian choral art. The purpose of this article is to focus the attention on long years conducting and educational work of Ye. Vakhniak at M. V. Lysenko State Conservatory of Lviv (now named M. V. Lysenko National Academy of Music of Lviv). We have analyzed the creative work of the conductor as head of men’s choir “Homin”, the choir of the opera studio, the student’s choir of the conservatory. We have identified artistic and worldview principles, repertoire priorities, features of conducting and performing style and educational approaches of the artist. We have briefly described his educational and methodological and compositional heritage. We provide the list of his most famous students and followers. During forty years of his creative work at M. V. Lysenko State Conservatory of Lviv, Ye. Vakhniak showed himself as practical choirmaster, conductor pedagogue, teacher trainer, arranger, and composer. The choirmaster practical activity of the conductor proved his professional universalism, maturity, and meaningfulness of his individual artistic style, as well as his inclination to creative experiments and integration of innovative methods of work. The wide range of the conducting repertoire of the artist included many monographic concert programs, the priority was given to the choir music of Ukrainian composers and to the ecclesiastic pieces of Western European authors. Ye. Vakhniak was a very good interpreter and proactive promoter of choral pieces by Galician composers. His artistic and pedagogical principles were based on the principles of Christian morality and had expressive signs of quiet non-conformism in relation to the social order of that time. Ye. Vakhniak didn’t accept and never applied authoritarian methods of work. The key to his success was great erudition, professional competency, personal commitment, and sociability. Ye. Vakhniak’s knowledge and creative experience are recorded in his monograph, articles, educational and methodical manuals and textbooks, music prints, phonograms, press publications. Large number of students and choir performers who later became successful professional musicians testify about high efficiency of Ye. Vakhniak as high school pedagogue, and the composer activity of the artist harmoniously complements the image of his universal creative personality of the Renaissance type.