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 The Ukrainian Folk Ensemble
"Tcharivni Strouny"
Magical Strings & Voices of Ukraine
under direction of Iryna Sodomora

Tel. : + 7 (916) 687 24 13, Fax: + 7 (495) 590 91 32 - RUS
Tel. : +38 (098) 442 87 53, Fax: +38 (048) 725 16 82 - UA
 E-mail: strings@keysolution.ru

The Ukrainian folk ensemble of bandura players "Tcharivny Srtouny. Magical Strings & Voices of Ukraine", which was founded by Iryna Sodomora in Lviv, in 1973, are reiterated winner and participant of many regional, national and international festivals.

The Ensemble carried off the First Prize at the Ukrainian International Festival "Gromada" and the Festival of Art among Bandura Players in 1991. The same year, the group participated in the worlwide Medicine Conference, and confirmed this way its belonging to the cultural society Taras Chevtchenko "Prosvita".
The ensemble is constantly taking part in cultural events of the Lviv's railway department.
In 1990 the ensemble was invited to take tour around the cities of the USA, in 1995 got the highest praise of the jury of International Children's Folk Festival “The Gallic Circle”, in 1996 gained the title of People's ensemble of Ukraine. Same year it became the Laureate of the International Festival “The day's of bandura music” and in 1997 represented Ukraine on “The Days of Ukrainian Culture” in Poland.

In 1996 “Tcharivni Srtouny” was the participant of the performance of Honoured Masters of Art and Artistic Associations of Lviv region in Kyiv and was praised by the honorable Diploma of the Cabinet of Minister's of Ukraine.
In 1999 it took active part in Grand Festival of Slavonic Art in Paris during the days of Ukrainian culture in France.
In 2000 the ensemble took First Prize of the All-Ukrainian Art Festival of Bandura Players in the town of Dubno.
In July 2000, during the Pope's coming in Ukraine, Tcharivni Strouny was chosen by the city of Lviv to represent the chorals of Ukraine during the concert the Saint Father was offered.
In 2001 the ensamble took part in the number of performances in honour of Taras Chevtchenko in Croatia and Hungary and in the International Festival of Student's Song in France. The same year, it also got the First Prize at the Folk Art Contest among the ensembles under protection of Ukrainian Railway Headquarter and received the honorable right of recording their songs into the Fund of National Radio station of Ukraine in Kyiv.

In 2002 Tcharivni Strouny on the invitation of the Embassy of Ukraine went to France to celebrate the 11th anniversary of independence of Ukraine. In 2003 - 2009 the ensemble was annually taking part in many prestigious festivals in France, Taiwan, Reunion, Maurice, Corsica. On the 21st - 22d of May 2005, it represented Ukraine during the duty visit of the President of Ukraine Viktor Uschchenko in France dedicated to the setting the monument of Ann of Kyiv, The Queen of France in Sunlis (in the suburbs of Paris) and took part in the cultural program “Day's of Ukraine in Europe” near the Eiffel Tower, in the cathedral of St. Volodumur the Great.
Its repertory is made up of classical, modern and traditional musics and songs. The Ensemble became the ambassador of Ukrainian culture abroad. It will make you travel in the country of the Cosaques and Romanticism.

Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centers of today's Ukraine and historically also for Ukraine 's neighbor, Poland. The historic centre of Lviv with its old buildings and cobblestone roads has survived the Second World War and the Soviet presence largely unscathed. The city has many industries and institutions of higher education such as the Lviv University and the Lviv Polytechnic. It has a philharmonic orchestra and The Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. The historic city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Lviv celebrated its 750th anniversary with a son et lumiere in the city centre in September 2006.

Lviv was founded in 1256 in Red Ruthenia by King Danylo Halytskyi of the Ruthenian principality of Halych-Volhynia, and named in honour of his son, Lev. Together with the rest of Red Ruthenia, Lviv was captured by Kingdom of Poland in 1349 during the reign of Polish king Casimir III the Great. Lviv belonged to the Kingdom of Poland 1349-1569, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569-1772, the Austrian Empire 1772-1918, the Second Polish Republic 1918-1939. With the outbreak of WWII the city of Lviv with adjacent land were annexed and incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR 1939-1941. Between July 1941-July 1944 Lviv was under German occupation and was located in the General Government. In July 1944 it was captured by the Soviet Red Army and the Polish Home Army. According to the agreements of the Yalta Conference Lviv was integrated into the Ukrainian SSR again.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the city remained a part of the now independent Ukraine , for which it currently serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, and designated as its own raion (district) within that oblast.

Bandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as to its lute-like predecessor, the kobza.

The term is also occasionally used by when referring to a number of other Eastern European string instruments such as the hurdy gurdy and the 5 string guitar (commonly referred to by the diminutive bandurka). Some traditional bandura players, often blind, were referred to as kobzars. The earliest mention of the term bandura dates back to a Polish chronicle of 1441, which states that the Polish King Sigismund III had a court bandurist known as Taraszko who was of Ukrainian ethnicity and was also the king's companion in chess. A number of other court bandurists of Ukrainian ethnicity have also been recorded in medieval Polish documents.The term bandura is generally thought to have entered the Ukrainian language via Polish, either from Latin or from the Greek pandora or pandura, although some scholars feel that the term was introduced into Ukraine directly from the Greek language. Occasionally one comes across the combined term kobza-bandura which refers to the dual origins of the instrument, however this is rarely used in spoken language. Use of the instrument fell into decline amongst the nobility with the introduction of Western musical instruments and Western Music fashions, but it remained the favourite instrument of the Ukrainian Cossacks. After the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich the instrument continued to be played by wandering blind itinerant musicians known as kobzari in Right bank Ukraine.

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