Mykola Anatoliyovych Kovalinas (born June 30, 1964, Volodymyrets, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, teacher, Candidate of Arts (1995), Associate Professor (1999), Member of the Board of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (NUCU) (1993).
Mykola Kovalinas was born in 1964 in the Rivne region. In 1990, he graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory (class of Hennadii Liashenko). Then he studied at the Kyiv Conservatory's postgraduate program, graduating in 1994. In the same year, he began his career at his alma mater (now the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine). He also worked at the Children's Academy of Arts[2].
In 2003, he became a professor at the Department of Composition, Instrumentation and Music Information Technologies of the National Music Academy of Ukraine[3].
Scientific and creative activity
Mykola Kovalinas is an author of symphonic and chamber instrumental music. He studies the composer's creative process. He proposed an original methodology for studying musical texts, close to the course of the composer's creative process.
In 1994, he defended his PhD thesis on "Sonorous Formation: The Logos of Creativity."[4]
Scientific works
From the dialectic of the creative process to the dialectic of the musical work // Musical work as a creative process: Scientific Bulletin of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2002. Issue 21;
On the new principle of music-theoretical education of composers // Problems of music education. Kyiv, 2003;
Logic as a subject of music // Kyiv Musicology. Kyiv, 2004. Issue 16;
On the other thing from Webern // UM. 2006. Issue 35;
Composer in the system of dialectics of music education // Music pedagogy: Scientific Bulletin of the National Music Academy of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2007. Issue 54.
Musical works
for symphony orchestra - Concerto (1990),
"Concertare-piccolo No. 2" (1992);
for bassoon and 9 cellos - "Concertino-1991" (1991);
for soprano, quintet of instrumentalists and magnetic tape - "Frutto di abbacare (canzoni dissonanti)" (1991);
for 12 performers - "Rondo-111" (1994);
"Electronic Sasha Lagosha" (2001);
for viola and piano - "Sasha Lagosha" (2002);
for electronics - "Canon perpetuus (enigmaticus)" (2002);
for piano for 6 hands - "The Wise Men" (2003);
for piano - "The Christmas Star" (2006).
