Yurii Ivanovych Chekan (born February 8, 1960) is a Ukrainian musicologist, doctor of art history and member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
In 2011, having defended his dissertation "Intonation of the world as a category of historical musicology,"[1][2] he received his Doctor of Arts.
Later, from 1986–2000, he worked as a senior lecturer as well as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of theory and history of music at the Nizhyn Pedagogical Institute.
He taught at the Kyiv Slavic University, the Glier school, and the Luhansk Academy of Culture and Arts.
In addition, he was editor-in-chief of Art-line magazine from 1996–2000; head of the information and analytical department of the Foundation for assistance and development of the arts from 2000–2002; legal adviser to the editorial board of the magazine "Knizhnik-Review" from 2003–2004; director and editor-in-chief of LLC "Vremya Publishing House" from 2004–2012; director of the A. Shtogarenko Charitable Foundation from 2002–2005, and administrator of the National Chamber Ensemble "Kyiv soloists" from 2015–2016.