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Olena Zinkevych

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Olena Zinkevych

    born in 1940

Musicologist, Researcher, Educator

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2009)

    PhD in Art History (1988)

    Professor (1990)

    Laureate of the Mykola Lysenko Prize (2006)

    Member of the International Musicological Society (IMS)

    Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine

Olena Serhiivna Zinkevych is a musicologist, scholar, and educator, widely recognized both in Ukraine and internationally across Europe and beyond. Her research interests encompass the methodology of musicology, the fundamental patterns of the musical-historical process, the Ukrainian musical avant-garde of the 1960s, Ukrainian musical postmodernism, and the genetic and typological aspects of the development of Ukrainian symphonism. She has made significant contributions to the professional training of musicologists by developing and introducing courses such as Methodology, Theory, and History of Music Criticism, Methodology of Historical Musicology, and Musical Postmodernism.
Between 1989 and 2015, Zinkevych led Ukraine’s only department specializing in the History of Music of Ukraine's Ethnicities and Music Criticism. In collaboration with Yurii Chekan, she co-authored the first textbook on music criticism in Ukraine. Beyond her academic contributions, Zinkevych is a prolific critic and publicist who has regularly contributed to Ukrainian periodicals and authored numerous entries in encyclopedias. She has been an organizer of both international and national projects and conferences and has published an extensive body of scholarly work, including books and articles, in Ukraine and many other countries.
Her presentations at global congresses and publications in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan, and other countries have played a crucial role in disseminating knowledge about Ukrainian national culture. These efforts have solidified her reputation as a significant figure in musicology, further elevating the global standing of Ukrainian scholarship.
Her monographs include works such as Heorhiy Maiboroda (1973), If Chekhov Were a Musician (1980), The Dynamics of Renewal: Ukrainian Symphony at the Contemporary Stage in Light of the Dialectics of Tradition and Innovation (1986), Symphonic Hyperboles (On the Music of Yevhen Stankovych) (1999, 2002), Concert and Park on the Steep Slope… (Musical Kyiv in the 19th–Early 20th Century) (2003), Memory of a Vanishing Time: Pages from a Musical Chronicle (2006), Mundus Musicae: Texts and Contexts, Selected Pages (2007), On the Present and the Past: Yevhen Stankovych Reflects in Conversations with Olena Zinkevych (2012), and The Meanings of Music in the Fractures of History (2021).
Olena Zinkevych has served as editor and compiler for 18 scholarly collections and has authored more than 200 articles. Her recent works include “Phenomenon of Japan” in Ukrainian Music (2017), “One-Man-Orchestra” A.N. Vinogradsky (2018), “The Mahler’s Reception in Ukrainian Symphonism” (2018), “Schoenberg Center in Vienna” (2019), “B. Lyatoshynsky and the Kyiv Composer School (on the 50th Anniversary of the Composer)” (2019), “Cultural Paradigms of Musical Art in the Era of Socialist Realism (Based on Ukrainian Music of the 1950s–60s)” (2019), “The Conservatoire in Occupied Kyiv (19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943)” (2020), “Kyiv Addresses and Friends of P. Tchaikovsky” (2020), and “The Role of the Second Viennese School in the Formation of the Ukrainian Avant-garde of the 1960s” (2020), among others.

She is a professor at the Department of World History of Music at the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. Tchaikovsky.

Her contributions to Ukrainian musicology have been widely recognised with numerous awards, including the Grand Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2020), the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2010), a Commendation from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2003), the Mykola Lysenko Prize (2006), and the Suchasnist Magazine Prize (1999).

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