Yevhen Adamtsevych

Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych (19/12/1904-1/1/1972) was a prominent blind Ukrainian bandurist.
Biography.
Yevhen Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia, not far from the town of Lubny, Poltava oblast. He died in 1972 in the village of Kholmivka in Crimea.
Adamtsevych became blind in his childhood. He lived in Romny where he became apprenticed to bandurist M. P. Oleksienko. He began to perform solo from 1927.
In 1939 he participated in the conference of kobzars which took place in Kiev, and in 1940 a conference on folk singers which took place in Moscow.
Repertoire.
Adamtsevych's repertoire included many historic Ukrainian folk songs, however it did not contain any authentic "dumy" (sung epic poems).
He did however have an epic work in his repertoire, structured somewhat like a "duma" to the words of M. Vorony - "Yevshan-Zillia".
Adamtsevych is known as the composer of the "Zaporizhian March" which was later orchestrated by Viktor Hutsal and was included in the repertoire of the Ukrainian State Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments in Kiev.