Iryna Tukova

Iryna Tukova (tukova@ukr.net) is an associate professor of music theory at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv), and a co-founder of the NGO Liatoshynsky Foundation. In 2024–25 she was the Petro Jacyk non-residential scholar at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (CA). In 2023–24 she was a non-resident visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington (US). Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ukrainian art music, Borys Liatoshynsky, creativity, and the intersection of natural science and art music. Tukova is the author of over fifty articles and the 2021 monograph Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th–Early 21st Centuries). Her forthcoming monograph, The Times of the Looking Glass: Boris Liatoshynsky`s Choice, co-authored with Olena Korchova, will be published in 2025. In 2024 she received the Ukrainian State Lysenko award for achievement in musicology. She has presented her work at musicological conferences in Europe, the UK, and the US, and lectured on contemporary Ukrainian art music at the Ljubljana Academy of Music (SI), Indiana University Bloomington (US), and Capital University Columbus (US).