- Volodymyr Kushpet
Volodymyr Kushpet (1948- )
Volodymyr Kushpet originally studied
bandura initially underAndriy Omelchenko and then later completed his studies at theKyiv Conservatory underSerhiy Bashtan . Along withKost Novytsky he was one of the founding members of theKOBZA pop group and playedelectric bandura in the ensemble.Later Kushpet performed in a duet with Novytsky playing instrumental classical transcriptions on the bandura. Kushpet after being introduced to
Heorhy Tkachenko became extremely interested in the authentic bandura and particularly the kobza as played byOstap Veresai . On this instrument he has managed to restore most of the repertoire performed by Veresai.Kushpet teaches as the kobzar school in Strytivka not far from Kyiv and also at the
Kharkiv Muz-Dram Institute . In recent times he has also started to teach torban at the Kyiv conservatory.Publications
*Kushpet, V. - "Samonavchytel' hry na starosvits'kykh muzychnykh instrumentakh" - K. 1997
References
*Czorny, M. - "Banduryst iakyj hraye na riznykh instrumentakh" - "Svoboda" 24/10/1997 #203
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