BANDURA IN THE GLOBALIZED SOUND SPACE OF MODERNITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF OSTAP STAKHIW’S LIFE CREATIVITY: TO THE ARTIST’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY)

Abstract

The article reveals the creative and educational contribution of the famous bandura playersinger Ostap Stakhiw to the revival of a specific cultural tradition in Ukraine, as well as to the representation of Ukrainian musical art in the United States of America. His multifaceted fruitful activity is considered in the aspect of life creativity against the background of intensive processes of information globalization, including in the field of musical art. Not only the artist’s achievements as a virtuoso bandura player and singer are taken into account, but also as an organizer and participant in many creative projects that revive historical memory, attract a wide democratic circle of participants and listeners to the knowledge of the unique artistic phenomenon of folk and professional bandura heritage. Thanks to the activities of talented musicians, in particular students of Professor Vasyl Gerasymenko's class at the Lviv Conservatory (National Academy of Music) named after M. V. Lysenko, to whom O. Stakhiw belongs, the bandura has outgrown the framework of a folk instrument. Some of the most significant innovative creative and educational initiatives of O. Stakhiw are highlighted, which have received wide publicity in Ukraine and the USA. Special attention is paid to the diversity of the musician's interpretation of the bandura repertoire in both a purely folk, academic, pop, and theatrical-historical aspect. Ostap Stakhiw belongs to those representatives of bandura art in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora who are expanding the area of perception and application of the folk instrument to a universal level in the modern globalized space.