His father Filaret was a prominent Ukrainian ethnomusicologist and composer and his cousin was the celebrated pianist Lubka Kolessa.
Mykola Lysenko | Mykola Tomenko | Filaret Kolessa | Mykola Yurchenko | Mykola Skrypnyk | Mykola Samokysh | Mykola Milchev | Mykola Melnychenko | Mykola Katerynchuk | Mykola Kapustiansky | Mykola Burachek | Lubka Kolessa |