Vasyl Kuzmych Shevchenko (1888, Pashkivska - 1964, Moscow) was a bandura player and torbanist. He was born in the Kuban, lived in Moscow, and worked as a set designer at the Bolshoi Theatre.
He travelled from Moscow to Poltava region and made recordings of kobzar M. Kravchenko. In 1905, he began performing with the bandura. He took part in the first performance of the ensemble of sighted bandura players in Moscow in 1905. While travelling around Ukraine, he came up with the idea of creating a textbook for playing the bandura. The first three parts were printed and published at his own expense. The manuscript of the unpublished parts is kept in the Central Museum of Musical Culture named after M. Glinka, f. 96-b, inv. 1976, p. 12. Part 4 contains exercises. Part 5 is the virtuoso section. Vasyl Shevchenko's torban is kept in the M. Glinka Museum.
He was the head of the bandura band in Moscow (1913-4).
Author of The School of Bandura Playing (Moscow, 1914).
