Vasyl Yemetz
Sign in to saveAlso known as Wassyl Yemetz, Vasyl Kostovych Yemetz, Vasyl I︠emet︠s︡, Vasyl Yemets, Vasyl Kostovych Yemets, Vasyl Kostovych Iemets, Vasil Emec, Vasil Kostovic Emec
Ukrainian bandurist, composer, bandura maker, and folk musician (1890–1982)
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Vasyl Yemetz, b 2 August 1890 in Sharivka, Bohodukhiv county, Kharkiv gubernia, d 6 January 1982 in Los Angeles. Bandura player; singer and teacher. He learned how to play the bandura from blind kobzars living near his family's holdings and started to perform when he entered university in Kharkiv (and later Moscow) in 1911-12. He organized and directed the first bandurist chorus in Ukraine in Kyiv in 1918 and (after emigrating in 1920), an ensemble in Prague. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/V
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ukrainian People's Republic
- Place of birth
- Sharivka
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- kobzar
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Instrument
- bandura
- Image
- Yemets Vasyl.jpg
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- date of death
- 1982-01-04
- place of burial
- Winnipeg
- date of birth
- 1890-12-15
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