Background
Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine.
Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine.
She studied composition from 1973-1979 at the Pyotr Stoliarsky Special Music School in Odessa under Aleksandr Kogan and piano under Grigory Buchynsky and Yelena Pannikova. She entered the Doctor of Philosophy program at Moscow Pedagogical University, where studied under Gennady Tsypin and graduated in 1990.
She continued her studies at the Odessa State Authorised Version Nezhdanova Music Academy with Aleksandr Krasotov for composition and Lyudmyla Ginzburg for piano. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching composition at the Odessa State Authorised Version Nezhdanova Music Academy in 1980. Tsepkolenko"s music has been performed in Europe, Japan and the United States of America. She has served as artistic director of the Two Days and Two Nights of New Music festival in Odessa, which she founded in 1995, and also served terms as president of the Association New Music in Odessa and the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in the Ukraine.
Tsepkolenko has written professional articles on music and methods of teaching music
In 1990 she co-authored the book Artistic Games with Aleksandr Perepelytsya.