Nadiya Vatamanyuk : I was born in a quaint village called Stariy Kosiv near the Carpathian Mountains, in the region of Hutsuls. My father, Ivan, was a musician (conductor and member of a Hutsuls group). My Mother, Maria, used to sing very well. I started to sing when I was a child. During my childhood I used to listen very nice traditional Ukrainian songs. When I was 8 (in 1975) I entered a secondary music school with the speciality bandura. I finished my studies in this school in 1981. Then I continued my studies in a music high school and I graduated from this school with distinction in 1986. The same year I entered the National Conservatoire M. Lysenko in Lviv in the class of bandura professor V. Gerasimenko. I graduated from the Conservatoire in 1991. During my studies in the Conservatoire I used to work as a soloist in the folk music theatre Ostap Stakhiv and I performed a lot of concerts in Ukraine, in USA and in Canada. The programme of the theatre was composed of traditional music performances. I started to work as a music teacher in 1992. Today I am a bandoura and singing teacher in the Music School N°6 in Lviv. My students took part in numerous music events and study today in the National Conservatoire M. Lysenko in Lviv. A few of them are members of the group “Tsarivni” (among them my daughter Solomiya). I won a lot of prizes and diplomas, I have also got the acknowledgement of the Culture Department for my professional skills and the high quality work that I achieved in developing the Ukrainian traditional culture worldwide. See tour dates ...
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