Ukrainian composer, teacher, member of the NSCU.
Biography.
She received her primary education at Ternopil Secondary School No. 1 named after Ivan Franko (1984-1992) and Ternopil Music School No. 2 (1985-1992, piano class of T. Kaverina). From 1992 to 1996, she studied at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Ternopil Music College (piano and theory departments). In 1996, she entered the Composition Department of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Ivan Karabyts's composition class) and graduated in 2001. From 2001 to 2004 Olena Ilnytska was an assistant at the Department of Composition of the NMAU, Myroslav Skoryk's composition class. In 2010, as part of the scholarship program of the Ministry of Culture of Poland "Gaude Polonia", she was an intern at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy (Katowice), composition class of Oleksandr Lasoni.
Since 2001, she has been teaching composition at the Faculty of Musical Arts of the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts. Since 2002, he has been a lecturer at the Department of Composition at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Since 2004, he has been teaching composition and other music-theoretical disciplines at the Kyiv Children's Music School No. 15. Since 2005, she has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
She has participated in festivals of contemporary academic music, such as KyivMusicFest, Forum of Young Music, Season Premieres, and Contrasts. In 2010, she took part in the collective project "Chopin: Transcriptions of Our Time", within which she made a modern transcription of Prelude No. 15 in Des-dur by Fryderyk Chopin.
In 2019, she took part in the eighth all-Ukrainian concert and musical project Creative Workshop of Contemporary Music Interpretation (Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine) with the work Nocturne 1 for piano, which was one of the compulsory works for interpretation by the participants of the piano competition and won the Grand Prix of the composer competition within the framework of the Creative Workshop of Contemporary Music Interpretation.
In 2020-2021, she was a participant in the international project Pandemic Media Space, within the framework of which she composed the work Clouds in the sky.
In 2015, the piece Serenade for violin and piano was included in the collection of works by Ukrainian composers participating in the Gaude Polonia scholarship program for violin and piano, Colors of New Music in Ukraine, published by the Musical Ukraine publishing house.
He is the author of about 30 arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for voice and piano, as well as for choir, which are included in the collections "Oh in the grove, by the Danube" (2015), "My Danube" (2019) (Mirror of the World Publishing House).
Creative work
O. Ilnytska's works include symphonic, choral, and chamber music. Her work is characterized by "a philosophical approach and depth of creative vision" (Y. Stankovych), the author is noted for "an exceptional sense of time and musical texture" (H. Havrylets). A. Zahaykevych notes her interest in spectral music. The list of O. Ilnytska's works includes:
Symphonic picture for large symphony orchestra (2001)
Chamber cantata based on the words of Vasyl Stus for soprano and string quartet (2002);
Sinfonietta (2003);
Sinfonia piccola for chamber ensemble (2004);
Bagatelle for clarinet solo (2007)
Sarabande for cello solo (2009)
Concerto for cello and orchestra (2010);
Serenade for chamber orchestra (2010);
"Oh look, mother, and at my position" (eight arrangements of Ukrainian folk wedding songs for voice and symphony orchestra) (2011);
Psalm No. 61 for mixed choir. The text is canonical;
Fantasia for organ (2010);
"Et vidi caelum novum et terram novam for trumpet and organ (2011);
Prelude for solo violin (2012);
Nocturne for solo cello (2013);
Serenade for violin and piano (2015);
Nocturne 1 for piano (2019);
Nocturne 2 for piano (2020);
"Clouds in the sky for soprano, violin, cello and piano (2020);
Arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for voice and piano, for voice and orchestra of folk instruments, for voice and symphony orchestra, for choir. Piano and vocal works for children.
