Biography

Lev Mykolajovych Kolodub (Ukrainian: Левко́ Микола́йович Колоду́б; 1 May 1930 – 23 February 2019), was a Ukrainian composer and teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1973), People's Artist of Ukraine(1993). Recipient of Shevchenko National Prize (2010). Head of Ukrainian Music Foundation (1988—1994) Kyiv branch of National Union of Composers of Ukraine (1994—1999). Lev Kolodub was born on 1 May 1930 in Kyiv. His mother was an opera singer, her grandmother was a music teacher. He studied at the Kharkiv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School as a clarinetist, later at the Kharkiv Conservatory as a composer. After graduating from the conservatory in 1954 he worked in Kiev.

From 1958 to 1960 he taught music theory at the Kyiv Theater Institute, and from 1966 he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory, from 1985 as professor. In 1997 he headed a recently established Music Information Technology Department of the Kyiv Conservatory.

From 1994 to 1997 he was the chairman of the Kyiv branch of National Union of Composers of Ukraine.

He was from 1997 a corresponding member and from 2005 an academic of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

Lev Kolodub was married to Zhanna Kolodub, a Ukrainian composer and pianist.

He died on 23 February 2019 in Kyiv at the age of 88.