OLENA ILNYTSKA (b. 1977) is a composer of chamber and symphonic music. She graduated from the composition faculty at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv), where she studied with Ivan Karabyts (2001) and Myroslav Skoryk (2004). In 2010, she received a «Gaude Polonia» scholarship to study at the Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice in the composition class of Alexander Lason.

She has been a member of the National Composers’ Union of Ukraine since 2005.

She has taken part in the contemporary music festivals “KyivMusicFest”, “Contrast” “Ukrainian Music Days in Warsaw”, as well as the projects “Chopin: Transcriptions of our Time” (2010) and “Pandemic Media Space” (2020-2021).