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 - Kobzar Tereshko Parkhomenko from • Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky’s court bandurist Chernihiv • A representative of the Kyiv/Chernihiv style. •
Kobzars Hnat Honcharenko and Stepan Pasiuha. – Representatives of the style played by the kobzars in Sloboda Ukraina – around Kharkiv. Kobzar Pavlo Hashchenko Kobzar Fedir (Kholodny) Hrytsenko from Zinkiv Torbanist playing the Torban using the Kharkiv style
• • Participants of the Ethnographic concert held at the XIIth Archeological Conference, (Kharkiv, 1902) 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
Kobzar Ivan 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. 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. • 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 bodies were 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. • Bandurist Perekop Ivanov on Kyiv-Kharkiv Bandura #3 designed and made by Ivan Skliar.
Kharkiv (Perekydka) hand position Kyiv-Kharkiv Bandura #5. Ivan Skliar and Kyiv-Kharkiv bandura #3. (1960’s) •
Vasyl Herasymenko and his Kharkiv banduras • The Kharkiv bandura outside of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Honcharenko’s Kharkiv style bandura
• In the workshop in Goslar. • (P. Honcharenko standing in the centre) Bandurist
Hryhory Nazarenko
• 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 Capella Toronto, 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 bandura • Bohdan Shutka on a convertd Chernihiv instrument