She studied composition from 1973-79 at the Pyotr Stoliarsky Special Music School in Odessa under Aleksandr Kogan and piano under Grigory Buchynsky and Yelena Pannikova.

Nezhdanova Music Academy with Aleksandr Krasotov for composition and Lyudmyla Ginzburg for piano.

She entered the PhD program at Moscow Pedagogic University, where she studied under Gennady Tsypin and graduated in 1990.

[1] Tsepkolenko's music has been performed in Europe, Japan and the United States.

[2] Tsepkolenko has composed more than 70 works for stage, orchestra, chamber ensembles, vocal performance, piano, organ, and multimedia.