Volodymyr Kabachok

Volodymyr Andryievych Kabachok (July 15 1892-June 15 1957) was a bandura player in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Born in the village of Petrivka, Kabachok was a singer in the Archbishop's choir in Poltava until 1907 when he entered the Poltava music college.

Kabachok continued his music education at the Moscow conservatory (1913-17). He did not complete the last year of this studies because of the outbreak of war. After the war he returned to Poltava where he conducted numerous choirs.

In 1925 he was one of the main proponents in establishing the Poltava Bandurist Capella which he directed from its inception till 1934. That year he was arrested and incarcerated for three months.

On release he moved to Leningrad where he was able to establish himself at the Gorky Drama Theatre where he directed a Ukrainian ethnographic choir. This ethnographic choir later was transformed into a bandurist capella modelled on the Poltava Bandurist Capella and playing on Kharkiv-style banduras.

After a performance of the Kyiv Bandurist Capella in Leningrad in 1937, he was arrested once again and this time was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour in the Kolyma work camps in the Far East. It was incorrectly reported that he died in Kolyma.

In 1943-44 he was released, and worked for a short time as a soloist in the Tashkent Philharmonia. There he also became the leader of the orchestral group of the Veriovka Folk Choir.

He returned to Kyiv in 1945 where he began to teach bandura at the Kyiv music college named after R. Gliere and later became professor of bandura at the Kyiv Conservatory. During his 12 years of teaching he training some 40 bandurists.

His most successful students and artistic accomplishment was the establishment of the female bandura trio ensemble.

Kabachok is also known for his handbook for the bandura published post-humourously in 1958 . This textbook was apparently co-authored with Yevhen Yutsevych because it would have been difficult for a convicted political prisoner to have such a publication.

tudents

Tamara Polishchuk, Valentyna Tretiakova, Nina Pavlenko E. Pylypenko-Mroniuk, V. Parkhomenko, Yu. Hamova
Viktor Kukhta,
Serhiy Bashtan,
A. Hrytsaj,
V. Lapshyn, Bokovyj, Yulij Ivanovych Poklad, Maria Nykyforivna

ources

*Bashtan, S. - Banduryste, orle syzyj ... - "Literaturna Ukraina" 1992, July 23 p 8
*Kabachok, Mykola - Spohady pro bat'ka - "Rodovid" #6, 1993
*Kudrytsky, A. V. - Mystetsvo Ukrainy - "Biohrafichnyj dovidnyk", Kyiv, 1997
*Cheremsky, Kost' - Povernennia tradytsiyi - Kharkiv, 1999
*Kyrdan, B. - Omelchenko, A. - Narodni spivtsi-muzykanty na Ukraini - Kyiv, 1980
*Zheplynsky, B. - Kobzari banduristy - Lviv 1999