Born in the Ternopil region in 1953, VIKTOR KAMINSKY studied composition with Volodymyr Flys at the Lysenko State Conservatory (now the Lysenko National Academy of Music) in Lviv. Since 1978, he has taught in the Department of Composition at the Lysenko National Academy of Music. He is the winner of many distinguished titles including the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2005), the Mykola Lysenko Prize (2000), the Stanislav Liudkevych Prize (2004), Honored Artist of Ukraine (1995), and an honorary distinction from the Republic of Poland. He is the head of the Lviv branch of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.

Kaminsky's creative path has been marked by a rapid evolution of both stylistic trends and genres: he started as an adherent to the Second Viennese School and the style of late Scriabin, and in the second half of the 1970s he became fascinated by the ideals of the "new folklore wave" and developed an interest in the genre of song. At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, a "theatrical period" in his creative activity began, marked by active cooperation with the Maria Zankovetska State Academic Drama Theater (Lviv). Since the mid-1990s, Kaminsky's work has pursued three main directions: liturgical music, cantata-oratorios and instrumental chamber music.

Among Kaminsky’s compositions are two symphonies, the symphony-cantata "Ukraine. The Way of the Cross" (poetry by Ihor Kalynets), the oratorio “I am going, I am calling, I am calling..." (texts by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky with poetic treatment by Iryna Kalynets), concertos for violin, piano, and organ. Kaminsky also authored the first Ukrainian textbook on the history of electronic and computer music and developed a course on the topic.