Serhiy Vasylievych Bashtan (12/I/1927- ) is a professor of Bandura

Bandura

Bandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza...

 at the Kiev Conservatory

Kiev Conservatory

The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education.-History:...

Bashtan was born in the village of Novi Birochky, now Velykyj Khutir, Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Cherkasy).-Geography:...

. (Other sources state that he was born in the village of Mykhailivka, Drabivsky region). He studied music at the Gliere Music College in 1948 under Volodymyr Kabachok

Volodymyr Kabachok

Volodymyr Andryievych Kabachok was a bandura player in the Ukraine.-Biography:Born in the village of Petrivka, in the Poltava region, Kabachok became 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...

 and continued his studies in bandura at the Kiev Conservatory

Kiev Conservatory

The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education.-History:...

 under V. Kabachok and M. Helis in 1959.

In 1957 he won the gold medals at the All-Union Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow

Moscow

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 and also at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. He became an instrumental soloist of the Veriovka Ukrainian Folk Choir from 1959-1968.

In 1967 received the title of Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

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 and from 1968 he has taught bandura

Bandura

Bandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza...

 at the Kiev Conservatory. In 1980 he received the title of Professor, and was the first bandurist to receive this title. In 1995 he received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine

People's Artist of Ukraine

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During the time he was in the Ukrainian National Folk Choir he became the partorg

Partorg

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i.e., the leader of the Soviet Communist Party division at the Choir. He also took this position in the Kiev Conservatory.

Serhiy Bashtan is the long time professor of bandura at the Kiev Conservatory. His major contributions lie in developing a professional repertoire for the bandura by commissioning works by prominent Ukrainian composers such as K. Miaskov, A. Kolomiyetz, M. Dremliuha, F. Nadanenko, H. Hembera. and others. These works were published in music collections which he edited from 1960-1991. Bashtan has also composed over 30 instrumental works for the bandura. He has been the editor of a number of compilations.

Publications

• Biblioteka Bandurysta (1960-67)
• Vziav by ya Banduru (1968-1975)
• Repertuar Bandurysta (1976-
• Shkola hry na Banduri/Handbook for the Bandura (with A. Omelchenko) (1984),(reprinted 1989)

Students

Volodymyr Yesypok, Petro Chukhrai, Victor Mishalow

Victor Mishalow

Victor Mishalow is an Australian born Canadian bandurist, and educator. He is also known as a composer, conductor, and musicologist.-Biography:Born April 4, 1960, in Sydney, Australia, he graduated from the Sydney University B.A...

, Alla Sheptytska, Maya Holenko, T. Hrytsenko, S. Petrova, Volodymyr Kushpet

Volodymyr Kushpet

Volodymyr Kushpet is an influentian Ukrainian baritone singer, and player on torban, kobza, bandura and lira, noted reconstruction of traditional playing techniques on these instruments....

, Kost Novytsky

Kost Novytsky

Kostantyn Heorhiovych Novytsky, better known as Kost' Novytsky is one of the more influential bandurists in Kiev today. Originally, he studied under Andriy Omelchenko and later at the Kiev Conservatory under Serhiy Bashtan...

, Roman Hrynkiv, Liudmyla Hlotova, Lidiya Olijnyjk, Olha Kalyna, Larysa Diedukh, Rayisa Chornohuz, Stepan Zhovnirovych, Ivan Koval', Yuri Nezovybat'ko

Sources

• Kudrytsky, A. V. - Mystetsvo Ukrainy - Biohrafichnyj dovidnyk, K, 1997
• Kyrdan, B. - Omelchenko, A - Narodni spivtsi-muzykanty na Ukraini - Kiev, 1980
• Nemyrovych, I. - Vziav by ya banduru - (1986)
• Zheplynsky, B. - Korotka istoriya kobzarstva v Ukrayini - Lviv, 2000