Eduard Drach ( uk, Едуард Драч) born 1965 in

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. K ...

, in

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukra ...

, in the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

– in present-day

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

) is а prominent and influential composer, singer-songwriter,

kobzar A ''kobzar'' ( ua, кобзар, pl. kobzari ua, кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed bandura or kobza. Tradition Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so b ...

, and

bandurist A banduryst ( uk, бандури́ст) is a person who plays the Ukrainian plucked string instrument known as the bandura. Types of performers There are a number of different types of bandurist who differ in their particular choice of instrumen ...

. He is an active member of the Kiev Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original

psalm The Book of Psalms ( or ; he, תְּהִלִּים, , lit. "praises"), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the ("Writings"), the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament. The title is derived f ...

s in Ukrainian historical folk style. Ed Drach

Drach was educated as a physician and still works as a

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...

, his career in music notwithstanding. His first instrument was the violin. He went on to become a prize-winning singer-songwriter at numerous festivals, in particular: the 1989 Chervona Ruta Festival. An accomplished musician, his music styles include modern ballade & romance, traditional folk music, folk-rock, folk-jazz, folk avant-garde, etc. He is proficient in guitar: 6, 7, 12 str. (Mainly, 12 str), violin, keyboards, bass, mandolin, banjo,

kobza The kobza ( uk , кобза), also called bandurka ( uk , бандурка) is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family ( Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term ''kob ...

, traditional

bandura A bandura ( uk, банду́ра) is a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings ...

, husli, lira (

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a vi ...

). Several of his songs were adapted for lute or

torban The torban ( ua, Торбан, also ''teorban'' or ''Ukrainian theorbo'') is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. The Тorban differs from the more common European bass lute ...

by Roman Turovsky.

Аwards

1992 Winner of International Festival of Author's Song "Bili Vitryla" 1991 All Ukrainian Festival of Author's Song "Oberih", winner of The First Winning Award 1989 All Ukrainian Festival Chervona Ruta, Chernivtsi (1-st Winning Award in song poetry) 1988 Ukrainian Republican Festival of Author's Song in Kiev (?-st award). Winner of Ukrainian Republican TV-Radio festival "New Names" 1987 Festival of Author's Song of Ukraine and Moldavia, Kharkiv 1983 Diploma of All soviet jazz-festival "Jazz on Dneper-river" (in a staff of Ranok group, Dnipropetrovsk)

Bibliography

* "CATHARSIS", songtexts and poems. "Smoloskyp" 2007.

Discography

* CD "Dvom dusham Darujet'sia" – "A Gift For Two Souls" – 2005. * "Songs of The Orange Revolution". * "Tales of Lirnyk Sashko" * Kiev Kobzar Guild CD – "The One who Firmly Relies Upon God" * "Nebo Ukrainy", CD-"Same Tak” * "The Songs Of The Land of The Cossaks" – 1995 Zen Records & Nerve TM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071212061005/http://users.i.com.ua/~drachedw/ *http://ceh.org.ua/dra4.htm

Аwards

Bibliography

Discography

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