Mykola Petrovych Budnyk () was a luthier and traditional performer in the

Kobzar A ''kobzar'' ( ; ) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed kobza or bandura. Tradition The professional kobzar tradition was established during the Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth cen ...

tradition. He was active in authentic construction and recreation of historic folk instruments, and involved in the movement for authentic performаnce practice on Ukrainian folk instruments. Budnyk was also known as a painter and poet. He was born in 1954 in Skolobiv, near Khoroshiv, Zhytomyr region, and died January 16, 2001, in Irpin',

Kyiv region Kyiv Oblast (, ), also called Kyivshchyna (, ), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, which is administered as a city with special status. However, Kyiv also serves as the ...

. He was a chairman of the Kyiv Kobzar Guild (

Kobzarskyi Tsekh Kobzarskyi Tsekh (, ''Kobzars'kyi Tsekh''), literally "Kobzar guild", is an organization of kobzars, which have existed since the 17th century in Ukraine. In Ukraine, blind travelling musicians, known as kobzars or lirnyks, organized themselves i ...

bandura A bandura ( ) is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian plucked string instrument, plucked-string folk-instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza. Early instruments () had 5 to 12 strings and ...

, known as a master player of folk musical instruments, and as an artist and poet.

Creative legacy

Budnyk recreated 17 types of traditional folk instruments - among them different regional types of the

kobza The kobza (), also called bandura () is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term ''kobza'' however, has also been applied to ...

lira Lira is the name of several currency units. It is the current Turkish lira, currency of Turkey and also the local name of the Lebanese pound, currencies of Lebanon and of Syrian pound, Syria. It is also the name of several former currencies, ...

, husli,

hudok The gudok (, ), gudochek (, ) is an ancient Eastern Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow. A ''gudok'' usually had three strings, two of them tuned in unison and played as a drone, the third tuned a fifth higher. All three st ...

torban The torban (, also ''teorban'' or ''Ukrainian theorbo'') is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. The Тorban differs from the more common European bass lute known as the theo ...

, and other traditional Ukrainian musical instruments. Together with Mykhailo Khai, Budnyk formally resurrected the

(Kobzar Guild), uniting like-minded intellectuals interested in the study and revival of authentic traditional music of the kobzars. Budnyk initially studied traditional kobzar performance from

Heorhy Tkachenko Heorhiy Kyrylovych Tkachenko (5 May 1898 – 1993) was a Ukrainian bard and bandurist. Biography Tkachenko completed his secondary education in the Kharkiv Art School before continuing in Moscow, where he completed his tertiary education in V ...

in 1978, and made himself a traditional bandura. He had a natural aptitude to authentic instrument construction and made banduras for many of Tkachenko's students. He later made a number of other authentic Ukrainian folk instruments and also began to teach others how to make and play these instruments in an authentic manner. The Kobzar guild he co-created revived traditional performance practices such as street-performance (busking) (). Much of the repertoire, such as the para-religious psalms and kants, which were previously suppressed in Soviet times as well as the epic form known as dumy were also reintroduced. Budnyk authored a textbook on making old-type

s ().Mishalov, Mykola V. Budnyk - posthumous mention / / Bandura, 2001, Part 75 After his death, his recordings were collected and released in the CDa ''Mykola Budnyk''. ''Hej, na Chornomu mori... '' ''Project "My Ukraine. Bervy"''. ''(Hey, at the black sea)'', by Art-Veles

Teachers

In 1980 Budnyk began to learn to play the bandura and the traditional kobza legacy with

with a small group of contemporaries:

Volodymyr Kushpet Volodymyr Hryhorovych Kushpet (born April 6, 1948) is an influential Ukrainian baritone singer, and player on torban, kobza, bandura and lira, he is noted for reconstruction of traditional playing techniques on these instruments. He is the autho ...

Victor Mishalow Victor Yuriiovych Mishalow (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian-born Canadian bandurist, educator, composer, conductor, and musicologist.Бандурист Віктор Мішалов http://www.banduryst.org.ua/index.php?menu=vk&lang=ua&r ...

, Mykola Tovkaylo and others. He began producing old-type

and

using traditional technology and methods. After Tkachenko's death he took the leadership position of this movement.

Students

Budnyk had many students of the bandura and

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-turned crank, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar ...

, including the well-known film producer

Oles Sanin Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin (; born July 30, 1972, in Kamin-Kashyrskyi) is a Ukrainian film director, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor. An Honored Artist of Ukraine (2014); he was also awarded the Alexander Dovzhenko Ukraini ...

, Oleksandr Kit as well as performers Taras Kompanichenko, Taras Sylenko, Ruslan Kozlenko, Pavlo Zubchenko, and Ivan Kushnir. File:KobzaOfVeresai.jpg, Veresai Bandura often referred to as a kobza - a Ukrainian Lute-like instrument, described by

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an ''oeuvre'' tha ...

from Ostap Veresay - Ukrainian blind epic singer approx. in 1871 File:KobzaVer.jpg, Kobza made by Ruslan Kozlenko (2005,

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

, Ukraine) one of students of M. Budnyk

References

External links

Kyiv Kobzarskyi Tsekh Website
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Creative legacy

Teachers

Students

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