Vasyl Vasylovych Popadyuk known as Vasyl Popadiuk (

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: Василь Васильович Попадюк; born January 16, 1966, in

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) is a Ukrainian musician, known as the "

Paganini", violinist, pianist, founder of the band "''PapaDuke''", with whom he travels the world, playing music in world music styles, Latino, gypsy, and jazz. He knows how to play 15 musical instruments, and each of the musicians in the band also plays various musical instruments. He is also a composer. He is an honored artist of Ukraine since 2009.

Biography

He was born into a family of artists. His mother, ''Svitlana Popadyuk'', is a , and his father, ''Vasyl Ivanovich Popadyuk'' (1940–1991), from the village of Myshin, Kolomiysky District,

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

region, was a famous flutist, a member of the choir named ''Hryhoriya Verevka'', directed the "''Trinity Musics''". Vasyl Popadiuk studied at the

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specialized music school named after

Mykola Lysenko , native_name_lang = uk , birth_name = Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko , birth_date = 22 March 1842 , birth_place = Hrynky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire , death_date = 6 November 1912 (aged 70) , death_place ...

from the age of seven he was trained in classical music. Then he entered the ''Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine'', from where he moved to the correspondence department of the ''Lviv Academy of Music'' named after ''Lisenko''. He completed his military service in Kyiv in the song and dance ensemble, which constantly gave concerts for the liquidators of the

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. Later, doctors recommended ''Vasyl Popadyuk'' to change his place of residence in 1988 and he moved to work to Moscow. Here, in the "''World Music Theater''", under the direction of ''Volodymyr Nazarov'', he managed to play ten new national instruments of the world and learned the art of reincarnation. In 1993 he returned to Kyiv, where he played in the ensemble " Hopak", collaborated with the ''State Gypsy Theater "Romans''". Since 1997, he has lived and worked in

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and

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. He is married to Solomiya Khmara, the daughter of Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident Stepan Khmara, and has three daughters, Moryana, Sofiyka and Katrusya. The family speaks Ukrainian. In 2003, he participated in the television show "''Big Musical Canadian Dream''", where he competed with 15 thousand other violinists. In the final, she performed a Hutsul fantasy and took second place. In May 2022, together with his band, ''Papaduke'' gave a concert at the ''Zoetic Theater'' in Canada. On January 27, 2023, in the municipal auditorium "

Paco de Lucía Francisco Sánchez Gómez (21 December 194725 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (;), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flame ...

" in

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offers a concert to raise funds dedicated to getting

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s for Ukraine.

Concerts

In April 2022 he participated in a concert in Regina (Canada) at the

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to benefit the Luhansk Children's Hospital.

References

External links

Web Vasyl Popadyuk
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