Rostislav Boyko (1931–2002) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was born on 1 August 1931 in Leningrad and died in Moscow in 2002.
Boyko focused primarily on vocal and choral music, an orientation closely connected with his training. He studied at the Children’s Choral School of the Leningrad Capella and graduated from the Sveshnikov Moscow Choral College. At the conservatory, he studied with Aram Khachaturian, who encouraged his interest in vocal and choral composition.
His works included children’s operas: A Song in the Forest, a one-act opera of 1961; The Tale of the Laughers (1967); Zavalyayka Station (1970); and The Quartet (1977), a one-act opera based on a fable by Ivan Krylov.
Boyko wrote music for films including The First Trolleybus (1963), The Seventh Companion (1962), Wishing You Success (1967), and the restored 1975 version of The Love Berry.
He was named Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1977. In 1982 he received the Nadezhda Krupskaya State Prize of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic for the children’s operas Zavalyayka Station and The Quartet, and for the song cycle The Silvery Belt.