The Poltava Bandurist Capella was vocal-instrumental ensemble who accompanied themselves on the multi-stringed Ukrainian bandura. It was initially established in February 1925, based on a male church
Poltava Bandurist Capella 1928 with Kyiv style banduras made in 1927 by Poltava bandura maker M. Domnenko.
The Poltava Bandurist Capella 1930 with new diatonic Kharkiv style banduras designed by L. Haydamaka and made by bandura maker H. Palyivetz.
Concert poster of Poltava Bandurist Capella under the artistic direction of Hnat Khotkevych from January 1930
New Kharkiv banduras made by H. Paliyivetz for the Poltava Capella in 1931 specially for the North American tour. Note the retuning and dampening mechanisms.
Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych was a Ukrainian theater and public figure, engineer, inventor, writer, historian, translator, ethnographer, art critic, playwright, screenwriter, composer, musicologist, vi
Poltava Bandurist Capella
…Romny, Kherson and Mykolayiv. On 1 October 1928, the Capella was chosen by the People's Commissariat for Education to work with bandura specialist Hnat Khotkevych to form a special experimental studio for the development of bandura technique and repertoire. The members switched over to diatonic Kharkiv instruments…
Hnat Khotkevych in early 1900s
A group of Ukrainian writers gathered in Poltava to inaugurate a monument to Ivan Kotliarevsky, 1903. From left: Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Vasyl Stefanyk, Olena Pchilka, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Hnat Khotkevych, Volodymyr Samijlenko.
H. Khotkevych playing bandura in a student play in 1899
The Kobzar ensemble at the XIIth Archeological Conference in Kharkiv in 1902.