Stepan Pasiuha


Stepan Artemovych Pasiuha was a Ukrainian kobzar.

Biography

Stepan Pasiuha was born in the town Velyka Pysarivka, Bohodukhiv County, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. He learned to play the bandura from. He had seven dumy in his repertoire:
The first three dumy were recorded on a phonograph by Opanas Slastion and sent to Filaret Kolessa in Lviv. Filaret Kolessa wrote that : "In his recitations, sung with a nice baritone, we hear the importance of the recitative above the melody. The singing and playing of Stepan Pasiuha makes a nice artistic impression."
was a student of Pasiuha, and highly praised him as a teacher of singing and playing, and also as a kobzar who demonstrated great artistry in his performance of dumy. He often spoke: "there probably was never such a kobzar like Pasiuha and in the future there never will be."
In 1915, Pasiuha was arrested and spent time incarcerated.
From graphic sources his bandura had:
  • Portrait 1 – 4 basses and 14 treble strings
  • Portrait 2 – 6 basses and 14 treble strings

Students