Yuriy Fedynsky (born in 1975, United States)— Ukrainian-American composer,

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 kno ...

ist,

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 ...

and singer-songwriter, producer, bandleader,

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, cultural activist and pedagogue. Fedynsky is a performer on

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 ''kobz ...

and 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 ...

. He was born in the USA, but moved permanently to his ancestral

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, (

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) after the break-up of the

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, specifically to pursue a career in Ukrainian

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. He studied piano under Henry Doskiy and

under

Julian Kytasty Julian Kytasty ( uk, Юліян Китастий) is an American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flautist, and conductor of Ukrainian descent. He was born January 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, in a family of refugees. Biography His first ...

. He is one of the founding members of the Experimental Bandura Trio, together with Julian Kytasty and Michael Andrec. He performed with the Detroit-based Ukrainian Bandurist Choir. He also collaborated with Ukrainian rock band Haydamaky. He is also a co-founder of several ensembles, in particular The Carpathians,

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and Chorea Cozacky (with Taras Kompanichenko. He is a member in Kyiv Kobzar Guild. As of 2016, he joined the Ukrainian folk ensemble "Drevo" from the Poltava region. Fedynsky is a luthier of such instruments as kobza, bandura, torban, hurdy-gurdy. He founded a guild of makers and performers in the village of Kryachkivka. The annual music festival "Drevo Rodu Kobzarskoho" takes place in the villageStolyarchuk, I: ''Американець Юрко Фединський уміє грати на кобзі''. Gazeta.ua, 200

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Films

* ''Comeback'' 2009. режисери Сергій Цимбал і Наталка Фіцич; документальний фільм про відродження української музичної традиції, через творчість Михаїла Тафійчука, Древо (із Полтавщини), Наталки Половинки, і Юрія Фединського. Номінація на європейський конкурс з кіноматографії

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, 2009, Берлін. (directed by Sergei Tsymbal and Natasha Fitsych, a documentary about the revival of Ukrainian musical tradition through the work of Michael Tafiychuks, Tree (from Poltava), Natasha Polovikin, and Yuri Fedynsky. Nominated for European competition for the cinomatografic prize Europa, 2009, Berlin.) * ''Kobzar'' 2008. ''Закрита зона''; документарний фільм про културну діялність Юрія Фединського в Україні (відновлення кобзарської традиції, його музичниі проекти, дослідження музичних інструментів і майстрування). Представлений на кінофестивалі Лев, 2009, Львів. (''Closed Zone'', a documentary film about cultural activist Yuri Fedynsky in Ukraine (recovery of the

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 by ...

tradition, his musical projects, study of musical instruments and handiwork). Presented at the International Film Festival Lev, 2009, Lvov)

Discography

* ''Три брати рідненькі'' 2009. Traditional

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reconstructions. * ''Хорея Козацький'' 2008. Ukrainian music of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras. * ''Карпатіяни'' 2004. * ''Run Through the Jungle'' 2004. * ''Юрій Фединський бандурист-композитор'' 2000. * ''Experimental Bandura Trio'' 1998.

References

1975 births American expatriates in Ukraine Bandurists Living people American luthiers Musicians from Kyiv Torbanists Ukrainian composers American male composers 21st-century American composers Kobzars 21st-century American male musicians {{string-musician-stub