- 5th of 11 children.
- Her mother was Antonina Ilkivna and father was Mytrofan Ustynovych.
- Entered the vocal studio of the Ukrainian State Folk Choir named after Hryhory Veriovka in 1968, before becoming a soloist.
- Completed her studies in Ukrainian philology at the Kyiv University in 1975.
- Is the first performer of works by the composers Yevhen Stankovych, Myroslav Skoryk, Iryna Kyrylina, Hanna Havrylets and many others.
- In 1988 she received the Shevchenko National Prize, a Ukrainian State prize named after Taras Shevchenko.
- From 1968 she was a member of the folk trio "Zoloti kliuchi".
- She began at a local residential school, then worked as a copyist and then a crane-operator's assistant.
- Has three children: Ivan, Andriy and Antonina.
- In recent times she has been performing with the Kyiv Camerata orchestra and the Kostyantyn Chechenya Early Music Ensemble.
- From 1966 to 1991 she was a soloist of the Ukrainian State Folk Choir.
- Her repertoire includes numerous Ukrainian folk songs.
- In 2017 she was awarded " Person of the Year".
- Matviienko performed in Mexico, Canada, the United States, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Korea, France, Latin America.
- During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, her performance of Yevhen Stankovych's opera-ballet When the Fern Blooms, which had originally premiered in 2017 after a ban during the Soviet era, was live-streamed by the Lviv National Opera was re-released online.
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