Julian Kytasty is one of the premier bandura players in North America. A third-generation player, he has combined the bandura tradition handed down within his family with formal musical training, earning a degree in Music (Theory and Composition) from Concordia University in Montreal. He has concertized and taught instrumental and choral music in courses and workshops in North and South America, Western Europe, Australia, and Ukraine, and has become known for his mastery of time-honoured folk styles and for his original arrangements and reinterpretations of traditional music.