Hryhory Kytasty | en

Julian Kytasty (Ukrainian: Юліян Китастий) is a Ukrainian-American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist and flute player. He was born in 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, in the family of refugees. His first studies were in the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, in which his father, uncles and grandfather played before him. He has been a resident of New York since 1980. He moved there to found the New York Bandura Ensemble (which also at various times included minimalist composer-bandurist Michael Andrec, composer-lutenist Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, Natalia Honcharenko and Juri Fedynsky), and began a career as a solo artist and bandura teacher that has taken him...