Zolton Havrylovych Almashi (b. 1975, Lviv) is a modern Ukrainian composer, cellist, teacher, organizer of musical life, and one of the founders and leaders of the festival of classical and modern chamber music "Gulfstream".He was born into a family of musicians. In 1993 he graduated from Lviv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School named after S. Krushelnytska. He graduated from the Lysenko Higher State Music Institute in Lviv (now the Lysenko National Academy of Music ) in two specialties in the class of Yuri Lanyuk: as a cellist (1998) and composer (1999). In 1999–2002 he studied in the assistantship-internship program at the Department of Composition of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine with Yevhen Stankovych; in 2008 he did an internship in Poland with the composer Alexander Lyason. Since 2001 he has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine and since 2000, he has been a member of the National Ensemble of Soloists, "Kyiv Camerata." He has collaborated with contemporary music ensembles "Ricochet", "New Music in Ukraine", and "Nostri temporis." He is the cellist and artistic director of the Revutsky String Quartet. He has won several competitions in both cello performance and composition: he was winner of the international competition "In the homeland of S. Prokofiev" (Mariupol) in "cello" (1998) and "composition" (2000), the Revutsky Prize (2003) and the Lyatoshynsky Prize ( 2013). As a performer and composer he has participated in numerous festivals of contemporary music and contemporary art in Ukraine. His works have been performed in Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, Belarus, Moldova, the United States, Chile and other countries.Almashi identifies as a polymorphic composer. His style synthesizes traditional and innovative elements, merging neo-romantic tendencies with contemporary compositional techniques. His works are performed not only in Ukraine but also in the United States, Chile, and across Europe.Zoltan Almashi’s creative output includes over 70 works, among them the opera Penita, numerous symphonic and chamber-instrumental pieces.