Zhytynskyi Taras Petrovych is a Ukrainian musician, vocalist and songwriter. Laureate of the Chervona Ruta-91 Festival in Zaporizhzhia, winner of the Young Popular Song Performers Competition at the Slavic Bazaar-92 International Festival. Winner of the Taras Bulba International Rock Festival (1994), Grand Prix at the Povstansky Plai 2007 Ukrainian Patriotic Song Festival.
Biography
Taras Zhytynskyi, born into a family of repressed UPA soldiers in the Karaganda region, was able to return to his homeland, the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, only in 1981.
He graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Arts. He became seriously interested in music, and later became a well-known musician and vocalist among young people in the city. After Ukraine gained independence, the author and performer of Ukrainian-language songs became one of the first candidates to participate in the revived Ukrainian festivals and competitions. He won over the jury and the audience, and as a result, he was awarded a diploma at the Crystal Lion Jazz Festival with the Galician Dixieland (piano) in 1989; third prize in the pop music category at the Chervona Ruta Festival in 1991; third prize at the Slavic Bazaar Festival in 1992; in 1994, with the Skala band, he won the Taras Bulba Rock Festival; in 2007, the Grand Prix at the Povstansky Plai Festival. In addition to his own compositions, Taras Zhytynsky performs patriotic insurgent and rifleman songs.
In 1996, a new life began for him: he unexpectedly moved to London. With a real herring on his head, he became like a free Cossack in exile.
From 1997 to 2015, the band Zemlyaki, created by Taras Zhytynsky and composed of our "former" members, played both folk songs and original repertoire in the UK. "Zemlyaki" has a good concert engagement throughout England.
Repertoire.
Cossack, Haidamak, rifleman songs, historical dumas and songs of the UPA. Rock, pop, chanson.
Albums
"Black Swan" (1992)
"Va-bank" (1995)
"The Best Songs of Taras Zhytynsky" (London, 2000)
"Evenings in London" (2005)
"Songs of the Cossacks" (2007) - haidamak, riflemen and Cossack songs of different times and from different parts of the country.
"Cossack Ballads (2009)
"The Batiars Were Riding" (2009)
"Songs of the Cossacks (2012) - together with Iryna Zhytynska
"Blue and Yellow River" (2010)
"Duet" (2010) - recorded with his daughter Iryna Zhytynska.
"Blue and Yellow River 2" (2012)
"Life goes on, the war is going on" (2015) - recorded together with Hryhoriy Lukyanenko, Vasyl Lyuty (Ruthenia)
"The History of Ukraine in Songs of the 17th-20th Centuries" (2016)
Film scoring
Once upon a time there was a dog - Wolf
Warriors of the Forest, Warriors of the Forest 2 - music.
https://youtu.be/l6L_rxC8-us"; "https://youtu.be/pRB-J6Ws0P0"
Ksyukh the Chicken - music.
https://youtu.be/syI7ZqMOMC0.
Music for the film Drohobych Calvary, directed by Oleksandr Korol.
