Vasyl Popadiuk

He is an honored artist of Ukraine since 2009.

Vasyl Popadiuk studied at Ukrainian National Academy of Music. The recorded working language is Ukrainian and English. The field of work recorded is musician, composer and violinist. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are world music and jazz. Places of work recorded in the authority are Toronto. Distinctions recorded are Merited Artist of Ukraine.

• Name — Vasyl Popadiuk • Native Name — Василь Попадюк • Born — 16 January 1966 • Birthplace — Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

He was born into a family of artists. His mother, Svitlana Popadyuk, is a choreographer, and his father, Vasyl Ivanovich Popadyuk (1940–1991), from the village of Myshin, Kolomiysky District, Ivano-Frankivsk region, was a famous flutist, a member of the choir named Hryhoriya Verevka, directed the "Trinity Musics". Vasyl Popadiuk studied at the Kyiv specialized music school named after Mykola Lysenko from the age of seven he was trained in classical music. Then he entered the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine, from where he moved to the correspondence department of the Lviv Academy of Music named after Lisenko. He completed his military service in Kyiv in the song and dance ensemble, which constantly gave concerts for the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. Later, doctors recommended Vasyl Popadyuk to change his place of residence in 1988 and he moved to work to Moscow. Here, in the "World Music Theater", under the direction of Volodymyr Nazarov, he managed to play ten new national instruments of the world and learned the art of reincarnation. In 1993 he returned to Kyiv, where he played in the ensemble "Hopak", collaborated with the State Gypsy Theater "Romans". Since 1997, he has lived and worked in Toronto and Ottawa. He is married to Solomiya Khmara, the daughter of Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident Stepan Khmara, and has three daughters, Moryana, Sofiyka and Katrusya. The family speaks Ukrainian. In 2003, he participated in the television show "Big Musical Canadian Dream", where he competed with 15 thousand other violinists. In the final, she performed a Hutsul fantasy and took second place. In May 2022, together with his band, Papaduke gave a concert at the Zoetic Theater in Canada. On January 27, 2023, in the municipal auditorium "Paco de Lucía" in Alcalá de Henares offers a concert to raise funds dedicated to getting ambulances for Ukraine.

In April 2022 he participated in a concert in Regina (Canada) at the Conexus Arts Centre to benefit the Luhansk Children's Hospital.