Zhanna Kolodub

Zhanna Yuhymivna Kolodub (*1 January 1930 Vinnytsia) is a celebrated Ukrainian composer and teacher. Zhanna [English: Jeanne] Vinnytsia, later Kolodub, was born in 1930 into a family of musicians in the city of Vinnytsia. She studied violin and piano at Kyiv's Gliere School of Music, graduating in 1949. In 1954 she graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory as a master (docent). She studied piano with Konstantin Mikhailov. When she was 24 she began to pursue composition as a vocation. Her composition teachers were Professor Liatoshinsky and the man who was to become her husband, Levko Kolodub (1930–2019).At the conservatory was became a lecturer in 1952, then associate professor (1985) and finally professor (1997). In 1995 the conservatory became the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music.In 1996, she was named an Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine. She is the Laureate of the Mykola Lysenko Prize (2002), the Victor Kosenko Prize, the International Competition of Works for Great Instruments (Rivne), and the International Academic Rating of Popularity and Quality "Golden Fortune" (2002) She is a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.On March 5, 2009, the title People's Artist of Ukraine was bestowed on Kolodub for a significant personal contribution to the socio-economic and cultural development of Ukraine, active public activity, long-term conscientious work and on the occasion of the International Women's Day on March 8.Kolodub's principal compositions are the ballets Snow Queen and Adventures of Vesnianka, Lyrical Scenes of Kiev for symphonic orchestra, Pictures of Nature for chamber orchestra, two sinfoniettas and a partita for string orchestra, several albums for piano, a wind quartet and other wind chamber works. Vocal compositions include international songs, choral and stage music, musicals, and scores for movies.