Dr. Veronika Zinchenko
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (for now, until July 2028)
Research profile
Dr. Veronika Zinchenko (Zinchenko-Hotsuliak) – musicologist, theatrologist, cultural critic and journalist, art manager, educator of history and theory of music, author of cultural projects, member of the International Musicological Society (IMS), member of Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), member of International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). PhD work «Ukrainian Ballet of the Independence Era: Development Trends, Genre-Intonation Specifics» (2024).
CV
- 2020 –2024 PhD studies at Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Faculty of History and Theory, Department of World Music History (PhD degree 2024 May 27 th)Aufklapp-Text
- 2018–2020 Master studies at Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine Faculty of History and Theory (Master’s degree: 2020 June 30th)
- 2018–2020 Master studies at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv University of Cinema and Television Theater, Faculty of Theater Studies (Master’s degree: 2020 January 31th)
- 2014–2018 Bachelor studies at Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine Faculty of History and Theory (Bachelor’s degree: 2018 June 30th)
- 2009–2014 Junior bachelor at Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music by R. Glier, Theoretical Department
- 01.08.2026-till now
Visiting Research Fellow at University of Bonn with project “Sounding Power: Ukrainian Women Composers, Gender and Politics in Contemporary Ballet” (Germany) - 01.10.2025-31.07.2026
Visiting Research Fellow at the New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study with project “The Soundscape of War in Contemporary Ukrainian Ballet” (Romania) - 01.06.2025-31.08.2025
Research Affiliate at the University of Alberta, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies with project “Contemporary Ukrainian Ballet in Wartime” (Canada) - 01.09.2024- 01.06.2025
Research Affiliate at the New York University the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Music with project “Soundscape of Modern Ballet” (USA) - 01.11.2023- 31.08.2024
Visiting Fellow Cologne/Bonn Academy in Exile with project “The Russian Ballet brand as the example of soft power embodiment in the history of art” (Germany) - 27.02.2023 – 30.10.2023
PhD Research Assistantship at Queen`s University as a part of project “Changing Colonial Narratives in Eurocentric Music History” (Canada) - 01.09.2022-30.11.2022
PhD Research Assistantship at the University of Warsaw Faculty of musicology with project “A comparative study of contemporary ballet in Ukraine and in Poland” (Poland) - 01.03.2022-31.08.2022
Program of the Minister of Culture of Poland “Gaude Polonia” with a project “Pax de deux: Warsaw-Kyiv” (Poland)
- 2023 -till now
Senior Lecturer (from November 2024), Lecturer (2023-2024) at the Department of Humanities and Music Innovation in R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music (Ukraine) - 2022-2023
Author in the journal Ruch Myzyczny (Poland) - 2022-2023
Personal manager adviser on the selection of musicians from Ukraine to participate in the recording of the song “Letter to Ukrainians” by M. Shurghaia and J. Zeber (Poland, France, Georgia) - 2022-2023
Author of the project “Ukraine is near” with National Institute of Music and Dance – 12 short-films about Ukrainian culture (Poland) - 2019 -2023
Senior methodologist in the State Scientific and Methodological Center of cultural and artistic education (Ukraine) - 2019–2021
Correspondent for the newspaper Ukraina Moloda (Ukraine) - 2018–2019
Author in the digital forum moderato.in.ua (Ukraine) - 2018–2019
Author in the digital forum kyivmusiclabs.com (Ukraine) - 2016–2022
Teacher of theoretical disciplines (theory of music, history of music, piano, composition) at D. Shostakovich Kyiv State Music School №4 (Ukraine) - 2016–2017
Teacher of the basics of Orthodox singing at the St. John of Damascus Monastery Theological and Vocational School. (Ukraine) - 2015-2020
Orthodox church choir conductor (Ukraine) - 2014–2016
Leading alto in R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music Chamber Choir (Ukraine)
- 2026: Philipp Schwartz Initiative Fellowship (Germany)
- 2026: Volkswagen Foundation Publishing Grant (Germany/Romania)
- 2025: New Europe College Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (Romania)
- 2025: Kolasky Visiting Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, Education, and Library Sciences (Canada)
- 2025: Shevchenko Scientific Society Fellowship (USA)
- 2025: Ukrainian Summer Methods Fellowship to support attendance in the 2025 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods (USA)
- 2025: Travel Grant, Ukrainian Studies Hub Inaugural Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN (March 2025). Awarded by Razom for Ukraine’s Ukraine on Campus initiative to support participation in the conference (USA)
- 2024: Fulbright Research and Development Program (USA)
- 2024: The second prize of the Iryna Polusmiak Second All-Ukrainian Competition of Scientific and Creative Presentations (Ukraine)
- 2023: The Scholarship of the President of Ukraine for young writers and artists in the field of music, theater, visual arts, choreography, variety and circus arts and cinema (Ukraine)
- 2023: The Scholarship of the Ukrainian Classical Musicians Support Fund (Ukraine)
- 2022: Special Response Fund for Trainees Ukraine (Canada)
- 2022: Study Visits Programme for Ukrainian Students and Doctoral Candidates at the University of Warsaw (Poland)
- 2022: The “Gaude Polonia” Scholarship Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland (Poland)
- 2019: The Liudmyla Kaverina Award (Ukraine)
- 2019: The Diploma of the third degree in the Second Ukrainian competition of student research papers in “Musical Art” and “Culturology” (Ukraine)
Publications
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, Veronika. Maxim Shalygin's Chamber Ballets in the Context of Contemporary Genre Development. Academic Publishing, 2024. 81 p. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2026). Women in contemporary musicology: a conversation with Valentina Sandu-Dediu. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Musica, 71(1), 9–20. [in English]
Yuferova, H., Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2026) Glier Intelligent Lab as an innovative model of arts education. Kyiv Musicology. (5), 325-333 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2026) The Phenomenon of Screaming as an Affective Marker in the Sound Space of Contemporary Ukrainian Ballet. Sloboda Art Studies. 2(11). 93–96 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2026). Soundscape of War in the Jazz Album Music Under Siege by Volodymyr Balaba and Galyna Dub. Human Affairs. 36(2), 215-229 [in English]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2025) The sound concept of hope in Ukrainian contemporary ballet. Studia Universitatis Babeş‐Bolyai Musica. LXX, Special Issue 4. 145 – 152 [in English]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V., Yuferova, H. (2025) Louis Karchin's role in the development of modern academic music. Sloboda Art Studies. 3(09). 155–158 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2025) Music of contemporary Ukrainian composers in the ballet repertoire of the Canadian ensemble “Shumka”. South Ukrainian Art Studios, 3, 135–139 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2024) The Ballet Legend “Olga” by Yevgen Stankovych as an Example of the Transformation of the Legend Genre in the Ballet Opus. Art and Education, 4 (114), 8–11 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko V. (2024) A Sketch of Adolfina Paszkowska's Activities in Kyiv. Taniec, 4. 81–84 [in Polish]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2024) The Soundscape of the Ballet «Mariupol» By Ivan Harkusha and Vladyslav Detiuchenko. South Ukrainian Art Studios, 3 (6). 96–99 [in Ukrainian]
Filatova, T., Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2024). Ladotonal and Coloristic Functions of the Harmony of the Orchestral Suite No. 2 From The Ballet „Daphnis And Chloe” By Maurice Ravel. Sloboda Art Studies. (3). 141–146 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. (2024). Composing Activity of Yana Shliabanska in the Context of Contemporary Performing Art. Fine Art and Culture Studies, (4) 19–23 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2024). Ukrainian Ballet of the Independence Era: Development Trends, Genre-Intonation Specifics. – Qualification scientific work on the rights of the manuscript. The dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty 025 “Musical art” (field of study 02 “Culture and Arts”). — Ukrainian National P. Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv. 241 p. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2022). Typology of contemporary Ukrainian ballet: Musicological aspect. Edukacja Muzyczna, Częstochowa. (16). 121–133 [in Polish and English]
Zinchenko, V. (2022). Yuri Shevchenko’s ballet “For Two Hares”: Intertextual and Intermedial Contexts. Scientific herald of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv. (133). 111–119 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2021). Genre-intonation specifics of M. Shalygin’s ballet “Schnittke”. Collection of Kyiv Musicology. Student Scientific Thought, (2). 62–73. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2021). Maxim Shalygin’s ballet “Hopper”: At the Crossroads of Intermedial Interpretation and Artistic Translation. Scientific herald of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, (131), 154–166. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2020). Maxim Shalygin’s ballet “Traces” is the embodiment of the semantics of stupidity. Collection Ukrainian Culture: Past, Present, Ways of Development, (36), 134–145. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2019). Maxim Shalygin’s ballet “Odysseus”: Intonation and drama specifics. In Collection of Musical Science at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, (8). http://onmavisnyk.com.ua/uploads/editor/stud_issue/stid_8/3313145ae2952ef1c1cd0cdfd02f7db7.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2018). Contemporary Ukrainian Ballet: Socio-Cultural and Artistic Components. Collection of Ukrainian Culture: Past, Present, Ways of Development, (28), 201–206. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2016). Choir cycle by I. Shamo “Four choruses on poems by Ivan Franko (an attempt to embody a biblical idea). Kyiv Musicology Collection, (54), 154–160. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. (2016). O. Rodin’s ballet “Vision of the Rose”: Innovation or Secondaryness. Kyiv Musicology Collection, (53), 129–135. [in Ukrainian]
Tytarenko, V. (2014). Oleg Kiva’s ”Chamber Symphony” based on Taras Shevchenko’s text in the light of the idea of repentance. Kyiv Musicology Collection, (49), 117–124. [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko V. The Ukrainian Institute of America performed the music of Thomas “Homa” de Hartmann (Muzyka, from November 25, 2024) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko-Hotsuliak, V. Oleksandr Rodin's music premieres in the USA, Canada and Ukraine (Ukraina Moloda, from September 19, 2024) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. To be free... To feel the power of ancestors... To live forever: "Shadows of forgotten ancestors" (Muzyka, from February 1, 2024) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. The situation of Ukrainian musicians in Poland during the Russian-Ukrainian war (Ruch Muzyczny (nr 4/2023) [in Polish]
Zinchenko, V. Contemporary Ukrainian ballet before the barbaric invasion of the Russians on February 24, 2022 (Ruch Muzyczny (nr 7/2022) [in Polish]
Zinchenko, V. Music Education in Ukraine (Ruch Muzyczny (nr 18/2022) [in Polish]
Zinchenko, V. David Petrosyan: “I am filming the story of a girl in the world of 80-year-old Bukovinian Amazons” (internet resource fastivnews.city, 2021) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. From Chopin to Shalygin: sketches performed by Anthony Baryshevsky (Internet resource Moderato, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. The Year of Francis Poulenc in Kyiv is still going on (online resource Kyiv music labs, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Kill or love? “Eyelashes” from the Council of Poclitaru and Kyiv Modern Ballet (Internet resource Moderato, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. La Voix Humaine Facetime: gadgets, love, loneliness (online resource Moderato, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Fire in the eyes, fire in the heart, the whole world on fire or the New work of Maxim Shalygin (Internet resource Moderato, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Ukrainian composers Hanna Korsun and Maxim Shalyhin became the headliners of the festival in the Netherlands (Ukraina Moloda newspaper, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. “Viy” – a chimera or a reality? (online resource Kyiv music labs, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. About the first concert of the “Thoughts” tour (internet resource mus.art.co.ua, 2018) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Oreya vs Mass Market (online resource Moderato, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. In the dream of rhythm: the festival “Two days and two nights of new music” (online resource Moderato, 2019 [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. The Lviv Opera House hosted a high-profile premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin (Ukraina Moloda, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Don Juan Couturier (online resource Moderato, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Jazz do it (online resource Kyiv music labs, 2019) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. “List z Kijowa” with a bloody stamp (online resource Moderato, 2018) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Ensemble “Seversky jewels”: choose your Ukraine (online resource mus.art.co, 2018) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. “Sleeping Beauty” in a new format (online resource mus.art.co, 2018) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Prostospiv and gratitude to Victoria Poleva (Internet resource Moderato, 2018) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. The capricious “Rita” at the “Opera Weekend” (online resource Moderato, 2018) [in Ukrainian]
Zinchenko, V. Beethoven vs Dubstep (online resource Moderato, 2017) [in Ukrainian]