Yuriy Fedynsky


Yuriy Fedynsky is a Ukrainian-American composer, musician, singer-songwriter, producer, bandleader, luthier, cultural activist, and pedagogue. Fedynsky performs on kobza, torban, and traditional bandura.
He was born in the United States, but moved permanently to his ancestral Kyiv, after the break-up of the USSR, specifically to pursue a career in Ukrainian folklore.
He studied piano under Henry Doskiy and bandura under Julian Kytasty. He is one of the founding members of the Experimental [Bandura Trio], together with Julian Kytasty and Michael Andrec. He performed with the Detroit-based Ukrainian Bandurist Choir. He also collaborated with Ukrainian rock band Haydamaky. He is also a co-founder of several ensembles, in particular The Carpathians, Run Through [the Jungle (band)|Run Through the Jungle] and (with Taras Kompanichenko. He is a member in Kyiv Kobzar Guild. As of 2016, he joined the Ukrainian folk ensemble "Drevo" from the Poltava region.
Fedynsky is a luthier of such instruments as kobza, bandura, torban, hurdy-gurdy. He founded a guild of makers and performers in the village of Kryachkivka. The annual music festival "Drevo Rodu Kobzarskoho" takes place in the village

Films

Comeback 2009. режисери Сергій Цимбал і Наталка Фіцич; документальний фільм про відродження української музичної традиції, через творчість Михаїла Тафійчука,, Наталки Половинки, і Юрія Фединського. Номінація на європейський конкурс з кіноматографії prix europa, 2009, Берлін. Kobzar 2008. Закрита зона; документарний фільм про културну діялність Юрія Фединського в Україні. Представлений на кінофестивалі Лев, 2009, Львів.

Discography

  • Три брати рідненькі 2009. Traditional Duma reconstructions
  • Хорея Козацький 2008. Ukrainian music of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
  • Карпатіяни 2004
  • Run Through the Jungle 2004
  • Юрій Фединський бандурист-композитор 2000
  • Experimental Bandura Trio 1998