Mykola Budnyk
| Mykola Budnyk | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 Skolobiv, near Volodarsk-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region |
| Died | January 16, 2001 Irpin', Kyiv region |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Occupation | kobzar, luthier, Head of Kobzarskyi Tsekh |
Mykola Petrovych Budnyk Ukrainian: Мико́ла Петро́вич Будник was a luthier and traditional performer in the Kobzar tradition. He was active in authentic construction and recreation of historic folk instruments, and involved in the movement for authentic performаnce practice on Ukrainian folk instruments. Budnyk was also known as a painter and poet. He was born in 1954 in Skolobiv, near Volodarsk-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region, and died January 16, 2001, in Irpin', Kyiv region.
He was chairman of the Kiev Kobzar Guild (Kobzarskyi Tsekh), bandura, known as a master player of folk musical instruments, and as an artist and poet.
Budnyk recreated 17 types of traditional folk instruments - among them different regional types of the kobza, bandura, lira, husli, hudok, torban, husli, hudok and other traditional Ukrainian musical instruments. Together Budnyk formally resurrected the Kobzarskyi Tsekh (Kobzar Guild), uniting like-minded intellectuals interested in the study and revival of authentic traditional music of the kobzars.
Budnyk initially studied traditional kobzar performance from Heorhy Tkachenko from 1978, and initially made himself a traditional bandura. He had a natural aptitude to authentic instrument construction and made banduras for many of Tkachenko's students. He later made a number of other authentic Ukrainian folk instruments and also began to teach others how to make and play these instruments in an authentic manner. The Kobzar guild he co-created revived traditional performance practices such as street-performance (busking) (Ukrainian: кобзарювання). Much of the repertoire, such as the para-religious psalms and kants, which were previously suppressed in Soviet times as well as the epic form known as dumy were also reintroduced.
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