Oleksiy Voitenko is a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, teacher, music educator.
He was born in Kyiv. He had no primary musical education, so he developed his passion for music on his own and at a mature age. Before receiving higher musical education, he completed his bachelor's degree at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". While studying at the Polytechnic, he played in several amateur rock bands, studied the works of composers of the New Music School and dodecaphonic technique. It can be said that before entering the conservatoire, Voitenko acquired the basis solely through self-education: he played various instruments, learned the secrets of music theory, harmony and composition.
In 2002, he entered the National Music Academy of Ukraine, Department of Composition, class of Yurii Ishchenko. In 2007, he received a Master of Music degree and entered postgraduate studies, this time at the Department of Music Theory (headed by Bohdan Siuta), graduating in 2010. In 2012, he was invited to work at the same department and successfully defended his PhD thesis. Since 2014, he has worked at the Reinhold Glier Kyiv Music School (now the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music).
Oleksii is a scholarship holder of the International Wagner Society (2004), a diploma winner of the Dmitriy Shostakovich Composition Competition in memory of Dmitriy Shostakovich for his work Nóμoς I (2006, St. Petersburg), a laureate of the Kyiv Mayor's Scholarship for Gifted Youth (2013), and a laureate of the Levko Revutskyi Prize (2014). Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (2011), co-organiser of the International Forum "Music of the Young" festival (2005, 2007 Kyiv), artistic director of the festival "Music Tribune of Kyiv Youth" (2008, Kyiv). He is the author of a number of musicological and journalistic works, a researcher of Mykola Myaskovskyi's works. In 2020-2021, as a compiler and editor, he participated in the creation of two books published by the Ukrainian Institute "Kyiv Avant-Garde: Anthology of Chamber Music" (Musical Ukraine Publishing House).
Oleksiy Voitenko is the author of numerous symphonic and chamber instrumental works, a large number of arrangements for various instrumental ensembles and music for a number of computer games. The composer's works are performed at many Ukrainian festivals and abroad. Voytenko's creative method is an endless process of embodying game elements in the interaction of the thoughtful and the intuitive, the conscious and the subconscious. The structuring of the musical material is solved outside the framework of the accepted canons, by means of polysystemic variation. Most of Oleksiy Voitenko's works are meditative in nature.
Among the composer's most important opuses: Symphony No. 1 "Tempus fugit" for piano and orchestra, "Elegy" for piano, "Nóμoς I" for 12 strings (or large string orchestra), "Silentium" - an epitaph to the memory of Myaskovsky for solo marimba, and the harpsichord cycle "Things Out of Place", "The Possibility of an Island" for piano and string orchestra, "Lento" for chamber orchestra, "Homo Fugens" for 2 pianos, "Epitaph in memory of Vladimir Zagorchev" for piano, "Music of Erich Zann", a cycle for soloist quartet, and others.
