Bandura singer, conductor, teacher. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1986).
Biography
Bobyr Andrii. During the Second World War, he was a pilot of the Red Army.
He studied at the Kyiv Music and Theater College, graduating in 1941. Graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in the class of Hryhoriy Veriovka and H. Kompaniyets (1947), and postgraduate studies (1951).
Conductor - Andriy Bobyr (October Palace, Kyiv, 1974).
1946-1963 - artistic director of the Bandura Ensemble of the Ukrainian Radio, since 1965 - artistic director and chief conductor of the Orchestra of Folk Instruments of the Ukrainian Radio. 1949-1979 - lecturer at the Kyiv Conservatory, since 1992 - employee of the State Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1986).
He is the author of more than 500 arrangements of folk songs and dances, plays for bandura.
Among his students are A. Omelchenko, V. Voit, Y. Gamova, M. Hvozd, V. Herasymenko, Y. Demchuk, V. Kukhta, V. Lobko, N. Moskvina, N. Pavlenko, A. Omelchenko, V. Tretyakova, Anatoliy Hrytsai, V. Kukhta, V. Lobko, and others.
His repertoire includes Marusya Bohuslavko's dumas, about the escape of three brothers from Azov, About Lenin, and others. He made more than 500 arrangements of songs and dances and plays for bandura.
The melody of the song "The Dnipro Roars and Groans" performed by Andriy Bobyr became the musical call signs of Ukrainian Radio in World War II (Radio Dnipro) and is still the call sign of the First Channel of Ukrainian Radio and the World Service of Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine).
