L'équipe du CEFRES

Iryna Tukova – Recherche & CV

La musique classique ukrainienne en temps de guerre : déclarations et réflexions

Axe de recherche 1 : Déplacements, dépaysements et décalages : hommes, savoirs et pratiques

Contact : tukova@ukr.net

Iryna Tukova, titulaire d’un doctorat et d’une habilitation en musique, est maîtresse de conférence en musicologie à l’Académie nationale de musique d’Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) et cofondatrice de l’ONG « Fondation Liatoshynsky ». En 2024-2025, elle a occupé le poste de chercheuse non-résidente « Petro Jacyk » à la Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy de l’Université de Toronto (Canada). Entre 2023 et 2024, Mme Tukova a été chercheuse invitée non-résidente à l’Université de l’Indiana à Bloomington (États-Unis).

Ses recherches portent notamment sur l’histoire de la musique classique ukrainienne des XXe et XXIe siècles, l’œuvre de Borys Liatoshynsky et les liens entre les sciences naturelles et la musique classique. Elle est l’auteure d’une cinquantaine d’articles, ainsi que de la monographie publiée en 2021 et intitulée Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th–Early 21st Centuries). Sa dernière monographie, The Times of the Looking Glass. Boris Liatoshynsky’s Choice, coécrite avec le Olena Korchova, a été publiée en 2026. En 2024, elle a reçu le prix d’État ukrainien Lysenko pour ses réalisations en musicologie. Elle a présenté ses travaux lors de colloques musicologiques en Ukraine, en Allemagne, en Lituanie, en Autriche, en France, en Pologne, aux États-Unis, au Royaume-Uni, etc., et a donné des conférences sur la musique classique ukrainienne contemporaine à l’Académie de musique de Ljubljana (Slovénie), à l’Université de l’Indiana à Bloomington (États-Unis) et à la Capital University de Columbus (Ohio, États-Unis).

CV

https://orcid.org/
0000-0002-4786-0484

FORMATION

  • 02/2022 Dr. Habil. in Art Criticism Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music
    Dissertation title: Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th―the Early 21st Century)
  • 06/2003 PhD in Art Criticism Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music
    Dissertation title: Functioning of the Western European Baroque instrumental genre models in Ukrainian music of the second part of the 20th century
  • 06/1999 Master of Music Art. Donetsk State Music Academy named by S. Prokof’ev. Graduated with Highest Honors

ENSEIGNEMENT

  • 2008—present: associate professor at the Music Theory Department at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music
  • 2026: professor at the Ukrainische Freie Universität
  • 2003–2008: lecture at the Music Theory Department at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music

BOURSES ET PRIX

  • 08/2024–08/2025: non-residential scholar, the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine | CEES | Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (Canda)
  • 08/2023–08/2024: non-residential visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington (USA)
  • 2024: Ukrainian State Mykola Lysenko Award for Achievement in the Musicology

PUBLICATIONS (extrait)

Monographies

  • Tukova, Iryna & Korchova, Olena. (2026) Times of the Looking-Glass: Borys Liatoshynsky’s Choice. Kyiv: Laboratoria, 256 p.
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2021) Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th–Early 21st Centuries). Kharkiv: Acta, 456 p.

Articles

  • Melnyk, Lidia & Tukova, Iryna. (2025) Herausforderungen der Musikforschung in KrisenzeitenFallbeispiele aus der Ukraine. In: Die Musikforschung. Bd. 78 Nr. 3,268–271. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52412/mf.2025.H3.5082
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2024) Vox Humana of War: Ukrainian Art Music as a Mode of Resistance (2022–24). In: Musicology Today. Vol. 21, p. 3–11. DOI: 10.2478/muso-2024-0002
  • Tukova, Iryna & Homon, Tetiana. (2024) Borys Liatoshynsky’s Opera The Golden Hoop: History, Versions, Primary Sources. In: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LXIX, Special Issue 3, pp. 9–20. DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2024.spiss3.01
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2023) Art Music and War: Ukrainian Case 2022. In: Musicologica Brunensia, Vol. 58, iss. 2, pp. 193–204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5817/MB2023-2-12
  • Rybas, Sergey & Tukova, Iryna & Lentsner, Dina. (2023) Rising Up with “Kalyna”: Examining the invitational rhetoric of “Ой у лузі червона калина” as a social media response to the Russian war in Ukraine. In: GESJ: Musicology and Cultural Science,2(28), pp. 52–69.
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2022) Empirics and theory: is there a ‘female’ music? Or the creative work of modern Ukrainian women-composers. In: Reissing E. and Stefanija L. eds. Composing women. ‘Feminity’ and Views on Cultures, Gender and Music of Southeastern Europe since 1918. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2022, pp. 117–124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3405pw4.11
  • Tukova, Iryna & Redya, Valentina & Kokhanyk, Iryna. (2022) Ukrainian Music Criticism of the 2010s: General Situation, Problems, Directions of Development (Based on the Examples from Contemporary Art Music Scene). In: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LXVII, 2, pp. 129–143. DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2022.2.07
  • Lisniak, Inna & Cherneta Tetiana & Tukova Iryna. (2022) Musical amateur performance in Ukraine of the 1930s as the manifestation of Soviet totalitarian ideology. In: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LXVII, Special Issue 1, pp. 7–20. DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2022.spiss1.01
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2021) Sonoric as a compositional technique: the attempt of critical analysis. In: Scientific herald of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Vol. 132. https://doi.org/10.31318/2522-4190.2021.132.249969
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2018) The Development of Western European Trends in the Kyiv Composition School (2010–2017). In: Lietuvos muzikologija (Lithuanian Musicology), № 19. pp. 52‑61.

Conférences

  • Tukova, Iryna. Ideological Compromise as a Strategy of Artistic Survival in the 1920s Soviet Ukraine: The Case of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society. In: 1991: Fall Of Communism and Its Impact On Music And The Arts (28–30 May 2026, UK Parobrod Belgrade, Serbia).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Music of the War: Ukrainian Resistance Case. In: War and Artistic Responses: Theories, Practices, Meanings (International Workshop, New Europe College Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 20–21 of May, 2026).
  • Tukova, Iryna. The Opera The Golden Hoop by Borys Liatoshynsky: From Archive to Production. In: Seventh Annual Virtual 2026 Indiana University Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Studies Conference (Indiana University Bloomington, March 26–28, 2026, online).
  • Tukova, Iryna & Batstone, Leah. Politics and policy in the work of the Kyiv-based composer Borys Liatoshynsky during the period of 1920s Ukrainization. In: AMS&SMT 2025 Joint Annual Meetings (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, 6–9 November 2025).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Composer Agency in Soviet Ukraine: Borys Liatoshynsky’s Efforts to Have His Fourth Symphony Heard. In: Music on the Move in Communist Europe (Department of Music, RMA Music of Eastern Europe and Eurasia Study Group, University of Bristol, UK, 28—29 May, 2025)
  • Lentsner, Dina & Tukova, Iryna. Branding National Identity through Ukrainian Art Music of the Wartime. In: Postcolonial Situation in the Arts After the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Experience, Impact, Reassessment: International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, April 9 – 12, 2025).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Ukrainian Musicology Under the War: Everyday Life and Current Challenges. In: Seminar of British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Online, 15.01.2025).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Resistance Through Art Music: The Ukrainian Case. In: Ukrainian Cultural Diplomacy and Musical Creation (CEFRES Prague, 27–29 November 2024).
  • Tukova, Iryna (keynote). Music Composition as a Political Statement: Art Music, War, and Resistance in Ukraine 2022–23. In: Music on the Periphery of Aesthetics: Between Politics, Business and Wellbeing (University of Warsaw, Poland, 6–7 June 2024).
  • Tukova, Iryna & Homon, Tetiana. Solving the Puzzle of Liatoshynsky’s Golden Hoop. In: Les avant-gardes musicales ukrainiennes: de 1910 à nos jours (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, April 24–25, 2024).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Art Music as a Resistance Tool: The Ukrainian Case of 2022–2023. In: 5th Annual Taras Shevchenko Conference (IU Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, March 21–23, 2024, online).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Ukrainian Art Music at the Time of the War: Composers’ Reflections. In: International Conference Ukraine in Music History (University of Vienna, Austria, May 19–21, 2023).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Musicology in Ukraine Today. Problems of Everyday Life, Reflections on the Past, and New Challenges. In: Building Relationships in a Changing World. European Musicological Seminar (Institut de Recherche en Musicologie Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, May 15, 2023, online).

ACTIVITÉS COLLECTIVES

2023—present: a co-founder of NGO Liatoshynsky Foundation