ALEX VOYTENKO is a composer and musicologist, lecturer at the R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music (Ukraine, Kyiv). Vojtenko is primarily an autodidact. He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 2002 and then attended the National Music Academy of Ukraine (NMAU), as a composition student of Professor Yuri Ishchenko. He completed his Ph.D. in music theory at the National Music Academy in 2010, under the supervision of Bogdan Syuta and defended his thesis in 2012. He is a member of the National Composers Union of Ukraine. Voytenko is a composer of chamber and symphonic music and is also the author of two monographs.