Danylo Fedorovych Pika was one of the founders of the Poltava Bandurist Capella.
10 Facts About Danylo Pika
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Danylo Pika became the assistant director to Mykola Mykhailov in the Kyiv Bandurist Capella.
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Danylo Pika was one of the stronger players in the Capella.
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Danylo Pika performed in a bandura quartet with Serhiy Minialo, Yakiv Kladovyj and O Kostetsky and recorded a Hopak, "Stukalka" and "Kucheriava Kateryna" in 1937.
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Danylo Pika became artistic director of the Poltava Bandurist Capella after the arrest of Volodymyr Kabachok in early 1934 until the group was disbanded in mid 1934.
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Danylo Pika was the strongest bandurists in the group and probably the first to have played bandura in the group having initially converted the singers to bandurists and then initially teaching them.
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Danylo Pika always had directorship aspirations but not the administrative skills.
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Danylo Pika is thought by some to have been a KGB informer and had informed on V Kabachok and caused his subsequent arrest.
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Danylo Pika became a director of the Kiev Bandurist Capella for a short period of time.
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Danylo Pika died during the first two weeks of World War II on the front lines.