Orest Dziatyk: hawk

News:
12-04-2008:
Orest Dziatyk, Aka Hawk is on MySpace, join him!: http://www.myspace.com/13hawk13 Fans of exotic guitar take note!

Here's are some video samples of his playing

Hawk (Orest Dziatyk) - Tapping Bach in Counterpoint


Hawk (Orest Dziatyk) - Crazy Guitar/Keyboard Harmony Improv


Hawk (Orest Dziatyk) - Insanity


Hawk (Orest Dziatyk) - Sweeping tutorial



Background:
Orest Dziatyk, also known as Hawk, grew up in Chicago. He started playing piano at age 8, clarinet at age 10(he also took 4 years of violin), began playing guitar at 18 and got into classical guitar a few years later.

Hawk attended G.I.T., Hollywood, CA. Then Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, where he majored (earned BAs) in Classical Guitar and Music Theory and minored in piano and harpsichord. He also studied flamenco guitar with Paul Henry(who is a student of Andre Segovia), at Roosevelt.

He has studied and or played with Paul Gilbert, Bruce Bouillet, Tom Hess as featured player
and George Bellas. Hawk is currently a student of George Bellas and is featured on George Bellas Student Spotlight page.





A guitar lesson on Shred Academy.

He studied with world renowned pipe organist and harpsichordist David Schrader. Studied chapman stick with Frank Joliff and studied with Preston Reed.

Hawk is absorbed in his music and fuses rock with symphonic music and modern progressive elements through composition, orchestration and performance.

Over the last 25 years in Chicago he has gathered quite a local following in 3+ bands, playing original metal, shred, classical, neoclassical and flamenco. He has been playing with the band Septer and has CD's available for sale.

Transgressor
The God Key

He was also a mmeber of the band Imperial Rage

Full CD release details
2007 - The Chronicles Compilation CD
2007 – Septer -The God Key
2003 – Septer -Transgressor
1997 - Imperial Rage - fire in The Sky
1983 – Transgressor - Live

He is currently in the studio working on instructional videos, composing and recording new material

More recently Hawk performed in concert with Uli Roth at the Sky Academy 2007, in L.A. CA.



Hawk teaches guitar, bass and piano. Some techniques he teaches/plays are metal, neoclassical, traditional classical, flamenco and shred and his speciality or two handed tapping.

His musical influences/inspiration include - Stanley Jordan, Bach Vivaldi, Mozart, Stravinsky, List, Paginni, Schenker, Ule Roth, and Malmsteen.

Finally Hawk is working on a live project called ACS.