10 Facts About Julian Kytasty

Julian Petrovych Kytasty is an American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flautist, and conductor of Ukrainian descent.

Julian Kytasty was born January 23,1958, in Detroit, Michigan, in a family of refugees.

Julian Kytasty has been a resident of New York City since 1980.

Julian Kytasty moved there to found the New York Bandura Ensemble, and began a career as a solo artist and bandura teacher that has taken him all over the world, from the Inuit lands to Patagonia.

Julian Kytasty is the author of original compositions and arrangements that have entered the standard repertoire of bandurists around the world.

Julian Kytasty has been described as "the finest representative of the kobzar tradition in the Western Hemisphere".

Julian Kytasty has created and conducted avant-garde music for instrumental groups, choirs, and incidental music for dance and theatrical performances, notably for New York's Yara Arts Group in collaboration with Virlana Tkacz.

Julian Kytasty is a frequent speaker on the bandura and its tradition.

Julian Kytasty has been a guest lecturer at many universities including Yale, Harvard, Wesleyan, and the University of California.

Julian Kytasty has collaborated with Canadian singer Alexis Kochan and their ensemble Paris to Kyiv on two CDs, Chinese pipa player Wu Man, Mariana Sadovska, Brave Old World and has recorded with his own group The Experimental Bandura Trio.