TKACH, Zlata Moiseyevna

Zlata Moiseyevna Tkach was a Moldovan composer and music educator. Zlata studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chișinău and then entered the Musicology Department of the Chișinău Conservatory, where she graduated in 1952. She studied composition with Leonid Simonovich Gurov (1910–1993), and violin with Iosif Lvovich Daylis (1893–1984). From 1952 to 1962 she taught at a music school in Chișinău. In 1957 she continued her studies in the Conservatory's composition class, and after graduating in 1962 became a teacher there and continued to work at the Conservatory until the end of her life. In 1986 she became an associate professor, and in 1993 a full professor of composition.

Tkach was honored as the first woman to become a professional composer in Moldova. She was the Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR (1974), winner of State Prize of Moldova (1982), and Chevalier of the Order of Work Merit. Tkach composed about 800 works, including sonatas, string quartets, suites, vocal music, choral and instrumental works, cantatas, opera, ballet, instrumental miniatures, children's songs, and music for drama, cinema and theater.