Inna Kovtun
- FromKyiv
- Over a thousand songs collected on expeditions
- Led Ukraine’s state ensemble Kalyna until 2022
- Five-century-old melodies from Polissia
- Founded Portland’s first Ukrainian theater
- Taproot Fellow 2025, eleven albums
Inna Kovtun is a folklorist, ethnomusicologist and singer from Kyiv with a master’s degree in music, folklore and ethnography. In Ukraine she directed the state academic folklore-ethnographic ensemble Kalyna and the folk band Rozhanytsia, sang with the ethno-rock band Astarta and collected more than a thousand Ukrainian, Moldavian, Bulgarian and Tatar songs on field expeditions. She has performed and taught across Europe, Georgia, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, Canada and the US. In March 2022 she moved to Portland with her daughter, where she founded the I ♥ Ukraine theater and directs the children’s ensemble Singing Dawn / Blue-Yellow. She became a Taproot Fellow in 2025 and released her eleventh album, Knyahynia, in March 2026.
Concerts, workshops and lectures on Ukrainian song; children’s ensemble at D.A.W.N.
Театр I ♥ Ukraine · ансамбль Singing Dawn
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