Biography:

Oleksandr Kozarenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Козаренко, 24 August 1963 – 21 March 2023) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist.

Kozarenko was born in Kolomyia of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. He was a graduate of Kyiv Conservatory where he took piano lessons from Volodymyr Vorobyov and composition with Myroslav Skoryk. In 1984 he became a winner of the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition and two years later won All-Ukrainian Competition diploma. Ten years later he became a recipient of the Levko Revutsky Prize followed by Mykola Lysenko Prize by 2001. Since 2000 he has been a vice-principal of the Lviv Music Academy where he also was a ballet, opera, and symphonic composer. He has composed works for Kyiv Kamerata and Trembita Capella. He is also known for his participation on numerous festivals such as Bratislava‘s Melos-Ethos and Days of the Kraków Composers Music as well as his national debut at the Two Days and Two Nights of New Music festival in Odessa. Since 1991 he composed such works as the Concerto Rutheno, Don Juan from Kolomea and Passion of Our God Jesus Christ. In 1996 and 1998, he did compositions by other composers such as the David’s Psalter and Oresteia among other works.[1]

Kozarenko died in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, from COVID-19 on 21 March 2023, at the age of 59.[2]

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