Dr. Tamara Bulat is a prominent musicologist, author of several monographs and of 300 papers. She is a co-author of The History of Ukrainian Music in 6 volumes. She is well known for her publications, on the work of Ukrainian composers Mykola Lysenko and Yakiv Stepovy, dealing with problems of folk and art music, culturology, and ethnomusicology.

Dr. Bulat was a Leading Scholar at the M. Ryl’s’ky Institute for Art, Folklore and Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, worked at the Kyiv Conservatory and at the Institute of Culture (Kyiv).

She is a member of the Composers’ Society of Ukraine, of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the USA (a Full Member and an elected officer), the Ukrainian Music Institute of America, the Society for Ethnomusicology (USA), and a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA).