Stepan Pasiuha

Stepan Artemovych Pasiuha (11 December 18621933) was a Ukrainian kobzar.

Biography Stepan Pasiuha was born in the town Velyka Pysarivka, Bohodukhiv County, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He learned to play the bandura from . He had seven dumy (sung epic poems) in his repertoire:

1. Marusia Bohuslavka 2. 3. The Sister and Brother 4. Oleksiy Popovych 5. Captives lament 6. 7.

The first three dumy were recorded on a phonograph by Opanas Slastion and sent to Filaret Kolessa in Lviv. Filaret Kolessa wrote that : "In his recitations, sung with a nice baritone, we hear the importance of the recitative above the melody. The singing and playing of Stepan Pasiuha makes a nice artistic impression."

was a student of Pasiuha, and highly praised him as a teacher of singing and playing, and also as a kobzar who demonstrated great artistry in his performance of dumy. He often spoke: "there probably was never such a kobzar like Pasiuha and in the future there never will be."

In 1915, Pasiuha was arrested and spent time incarcerated.

From graphic sources his bandura had:

Portrait 1 – 4 basses and 14 treble strings (16 pegs) Portrait 2 – 6 basses and 14 treble strings

Students

Heorhy Tkachenko