Her grandmother Hanna was a contralto, her mother Alina is a cellist, and her father Serhiy is a pianist and worked as the artistic director of the Rivne Philharmonic.
[1] At the age of five, Kulchynska began studying at a music school, learning piano and singing in the children's choir.
She then entered the vocal faculty of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, studying with Mariia Stefiuk.
In 2011, Kulchynska studied with Dmitry Hvorostovsky in a master class held by the National Philharmonic of Ukraine as part of the "Descents to Heaven" festival.
After a year of studies with the program, she was designated the third soloist for the part of Marfa in The Tsar's Bride; three days before the first performance, Kulchynska was chosen to sing the premier.