Levko Kolodub (1930–2019) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher, one of the most prolific masters of Ukrainian symphonic music of the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. He is regarded as an unsurpassed orchestrator with a fine feeling for the colours of the symphony orchestra.
Kolodub's output includes numerous symphonies, concertos, works for wind band and folk instruments, and film music. In his work he masterfully combined modern compositional technique with the intonations of Ukrainian folklore, notably Hutsul and Carpathian motifs. For many years Levko Kolodub taught at the Kyiv Conservatory, raising several generations of Ukrainian composers. His legacy is a significant part of the Ukrainian academic music of the modern era.
