Eduard Drach

Eduard Drach (Ukrainian: Едуард Драч), born 1965 in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine), is a composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is an active member of the Kiev Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original psalms in the Ukrainian historical folk style.[1][2][3][4][5]

Eduard Drach
Едуард Драч
Eduard Drach wearing blue jeans and a white long-sleeved shirt, sitting on a bench, playing acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone
Drach in 2009
Background information
Born1965 (age 57–58)
Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR
GenresUkrainian folk music
Occupation(s)Neurologist, musician
Instrument(s)

Drach was educated as a physician[6] and still works as a neurologist, his career in music notwithstanding. His first instrument was the violin. He went on to become a prize-winning singer-songwriter at numerous festivals, in particular the 1989 Chervona Ruta Festival.

Drach's musical styles include ballads, traditional folk songs, folk rock, folk jazz, and folk avant-garde. Apart from the violin, he also plays guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, kobza, bandura, husli, and lira.[7] Several of his songs have been adapted for lute or torban by Roman Turovsky.[8]

Bibliography
  • Catharsis – song texts and poems (2007)[9]

Discography
  • Небо України (Nebo Ukrainy) (1994)
  • Двом Душам Дарується (Dvom dusham darujet'sia) (2005)
  • Про Славу І Багатство (Pro slavu y bahatstvo) (2011)

References
  1. http://www.modernlutemusic.com/DRACH_EDUARD.html
  2. Kuzio, Taras (1 September 2013). Democratic Revolution in Ukraine: From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution. ISBN 9781317996484.
  3. "Dialogues with Time". Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  4. "Едуард Драч: джаз-рок, кобза і німецька ліра | DW | 20.01.2010". Deutsche Welle.
  5. "Драч Едуард | Українська музика та сучасна рок-культура".
  6. "Едуард Драч: «Коли люди тобі вірять, то ти – кобзар, а коли не вірять – бандурист!» – 5 July 2010 | Litcentr".
  7. "[ Vox | Статті » Едуард Драч: "Чим гірші часи, тим більше відповідальності у людей творчих" ]".
  8. "Eduard Drach > SCORES".
  9. Drač, Eduard; i͡Evtushenko, O. M. (2007). Katarsis. ISBN 9789668499609.


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