Ukrainian baritone singer and banduryst.
EDUCATION
Graduate of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Member of the National Kobzar Union of Ukraine.
REPERTOIRE
Dumy (e.g., "About Oleksii Popovych"), psalms, and kants (e.g., "About Truth and Falsehood", "Oh, My Years Have Passed"), Ukrainian folk songs (e.g., "The Raven Flies from Foreign Lands", "A Cossack Stands on the Black Cliff", "The Turtledove", etc.), as well as works set to the words of Taras Shevchenko ("A Cloud Rises from Behind the Estuary"), A. Svidnytskyi and Ivan Franko ("It’s Been Over Two Hundred Years" — music by O. Nyzhankivskyi), and original compositions set to the poetry of Oleksandr Oles and Ihor Kalynets (melodeclamations to "The Free Verse Verdict") and others.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 1999 — baritone soloist of the banduryst chapel "Karpaty";
since 2000 — also works as a history teacher.