Харківська бандура

Тhe Kharkiv bandura:

Rediscovering a neglected playing

tradition.

Kobzars Mykhailo Kravchenko (Poltava) and Petro Tkachenko (Chernihiv).

Foundations of the Kyiv style

Danylo Shcherbyna -

• Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky’s court bandurist

• A representative of the Kyiv/Chernihiv style.

Kobzar Tereshko Parkhomenko from Chernihiv

Kobzars Hnat Honcharenko and Stepan Pasiuha. –Representatives of the style played by the kobzars in Sloboda Ukraina – around

Kharkiv.

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Kobzar Fedir (Kholodny) Hrytsenko

from Zinkiv

Kobzar Pavlo Hashchenko

Torbanist playing the Torban using the

Kharkiv style

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Participants of the Ethnographic concert held at the XIIth Archeological Conference, (Kharkiv, 1902)

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Three kobzars – three playing styles.

Mykhailo Kravchenko (Poltava)

Tereshko Parkhomenko(Chernihiv)

Petro Drevchenko(Kharkiv)

(Kharkiv, 1902)

Kyiv Bandurist Capella (1925)•

Bandurist (Vasyl) POTAPENKO

(I) give lessons on the Bandura

Will teach within one month

Kyiv, Striletsky st, #8 apartment 14

POSTCARD ADVERTISEMENT

Hnat Khotkevych

(1913)

Bandurist Vasyl Yemetz

and

KobzarIvan Kucherenko

(Kuchuhura)

Cover of Hnat Khotkevych’s Handbook for playing the bandura

(Part 1)

Lviv, 1909

Shevchenko Scientific Society

• The Poltava Bandurist Capella (1931)

Hryhory Paliyivetz and the new Kharkiv banduras with retuning and dampening mechanisms made for the Poltava Bandurist Capella in

prepаration for their proposed North American tour. (1931)

Permission for performance on the

territory of the Ukrainian SSR – Storm on the Black

Sea

Secretary of the Higher Repertory Commission of

the People’s Commissar of Education

Official stamp

Last page of Khotkevych’s manuscript

1932

Hnat Khotkevych and graduate students of the first bandura class at the Kharkiv Music-drama Institute (1928).

1) Oleshko, 2) Haydamaka, 3) Khotkevych, 4) Herashchenko, 5) Hayevsky.

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The Poltava Bandurist Capella (1931)(Notice left hand positions)

The First Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments at the Kharkiv Metalworker’s Club directed by Leonid Haydamaka.

Kharkiv banduras - prima, basses, tsymbaly, bandura piccolos, and hurdy-gurdies and soplkas.

• Orchestral Kharkiv banduras designed by Leonid Haydamaka. Piccolo, Prima, Bass. (1930)

Workshop set up by Leonid Haydamaka for the manufacture and supply of Ukrainian folk instruments including Kharkiv banduras.

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The order to execute Hnat Khotkevych for being a German spy

from 1923 and to confiscate all his personal effects.

The printed form stating that the

execution was carried out October 8, 1938

Khotkevych’s name, one of many, on a monument dedicated to the memory of the Ukrainian Intellectuals executed in Kharkiv in 1937-38. Their bodieswere buried in a mass grave site on the grounds of the NKVD pensionat in

Piatykhatky on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

The Piatykhatky monument on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

Extract from Ivan Kucherenko’s execution order.

Post WWII development of the Kharkiv bandura in Ukraine.

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Bandurist Perekop Ivanov on Kyiv-Kharkiv Bandura #3 designed and made by Ivan

Skliar.

Kharkiv (Perekydka) hand position

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Kyiv-Kharkiv Bandura #5.Ivan Skliar

and Kyiv-Kharkiv bandura #3.

(1960’s)

Vasyl Herasymenko and his Kharkiv banduras

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The Kharkiv bandura

outside of Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus

Honcharenko’s Kharkiv style bandura

• In the workshop in Goslar.

• (P. Honcharenko standing in the centre)

Bandurist

Hryhory Nazarenko

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The Leontovych Bandurist Capella

• Bandurist –

• Leonid Haydamaka

• Bandurist –

• Dr Zinoviy Shtokalko

Bandurist

Hryhory Bazhul

1948

The Hnat Khotkevych Bandurist Capella Sydney, Australia. (1968)

The Hnat Khotkevych Ensemble in Australia, (1971)

Director P. Deriashnyj

The Canadian Bandurist CapellaToronto, 2008

Kharkiv techniques on an old time bandura

Honcharenko designed bandura made by Canadian luthier Bill Vetzal

Professor Volodymyr Yesypok (Kyiv) playing a fibreglass body bandura made by Bill Vetzal

Converted Chernihiv factory banduraBohdan Shutka on a convertd

Chernihiv instrument

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