Grigory Kalinkovich (born Gersh Motelovich Kalinkovich; 11 June 1917 – 7 June 1992) was a Soviet composer and teacher. He was born in Dzhankoy, in the Taurida Governorate, and died in Moscow; his ashes were placed in the columbarium at Vagankovo Cemetery.
He studied at the Simferopol Music School with Ye. P. Seferova and Ya. I. Bogorad. In 1935 he entered the Moscow State Conservatory, now the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, graduating in 1940 from Alexander Goldenweiser's piano class. He completed the Conservatory's Military Conducting Faculty in 1942 and subsequently undertook postgraduate study there, finishing Boris Lyatoshinsky's composition class in 1945.
From 1945 until 1978, Kalinkovich taught at the succession of institutions known as the Higher School of Military Bandmasters, Higher School of Military Conductors, Institute of Military Conductors, and the Military Conducting Faculty of the Moscow State Conservatory. After earning the degree of Candidate of Art History in 1954, he became an associate professor in 1955. He served as deputy head of the department from 1958 to 1960 and, from 1966, headed the Department of Orchestration and Score Reading. In 1981 he was named Honored Art Worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
His compositions include three symphonies, written between 1972 and 1980; a Fantasy on a Theme by Paganini; the Elegy in Memory of Dmitri Shostakovich (1976); and a Concert-Capriccio for saxophone and viola with wind orchestra. His music for wind orchestra includes fantasies, overtures, suites, the symphonic poem Fiery Years, a concerto, a Waltz-Elegy, and a Russian March-Chastushka. He also wrote concert works for trumpet, clarinet, trombone, baritone, and saxophones, as well as piano works including a Sonatina, a Sonata, Three Preludes and Fugues, and Three Concert Etudes. His vocal music includes Two Sonnets by William Shakespeare and several songs.
Kalinkovich also authored and co-authored instructional and scholarly publications, including sections of a course in orchestration for wind orchestra, a workbook on transposition written with Ya. Kaabak, a textbook on orchestration for wind orchestra, and a study of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as inspector of the naval department's military music choirs.