Eduard Drach


Eduard Drach is а prominent and influential composer, singer-songwriter, kobzar and bandurist. He is an active member in the Kiev Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original psalms in Ukrainian historical folk style.
Drach was educated as a physician, 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-sonwriter at numerous festivals, in particular: the 1989 Chervona Ruta Festival.
An accomplished musician, his music styles include: modern ballade & romance, traditional folk-music, folk-rock, folk-jazz, folk avant-garde etc. He is proficient in guitar: 6, 7, 12 str., violin, keyboards, bass, mandolin, banjo, kobza, traditional bandura, husli, lira. Several of his songs were adapted for lute or torban by Roman Turovsky.

Аwards

1992
Winner of International Festival of Author's Song "Bili Vitryla"
1991
All Ukrainian Festival of Author's Song "Oberih", winner of The First Winning Award
1989
All Ukrainian Festival Chervona Ruta, Chernivtsi
1988
Ukrainian Republican Festival of Author's Song in Kiev.
Winner of Ukrainian Republican TV-Radio festival "New Names"
1987
Festival of Author's Song of Ukraine and Moldavia, Kharkiv
1983
Diploma of All soviet jazz-festival “Jazz on Dneper-river”

Discography