Тарас Дороцький

Taras Dorotskyi

22/02/1977

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Taras Dorotskyi is a Ukrainian kobzar, lirnyk, and singer (baritone), and the great-grandson of M. Dorotskyi. He has been a member of the National Union of Kobzars of Ukraine since 1995. In adolescence, he lost his sight.

Biography

Dorotskyi graduated from the Lviv School for the Blind and the School of Arts in 1995. He later graduated from Lviv University in 2000 and has been a performer in the professional bandura choir “Karpaty” since 1999, while simultaneously working as a history teacher.
He performs traditional kobzar repertoire on the folk bandura, including dumas (“About Oleksii Popovych”), psalms, canticles, Ukrainian folk songs, and works set to the poems of Taras Shevchenko, A. Svidnytskyi, and Ivan Franko.

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Discover the authentic world of Ukrainian music and culture together with the masters of the Kyiv Kobzar Workshop. Kobzari – bearers of centuries-old traditions, will perform dumas, historical songs, spiritual songs, psalms and instrumental works for you, which will transport you to the times of Cossack glory and national identity.

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invite the kobzar

Discover the authentic world of Ukrainian music and culture together with the masters of the Kyiv Kobzar Workshop. Kobzari – bearers of centuries-old traditions, will perform dumas, historical songs, spiritual songs, psalms and instrumental works for you, which will transport you to the times of Cossack glory and national identity.