Upon returning to the USA Kytasty left the Chorus and moved to San Diego.
The first music camp Kobzarska Sich was led in Emlenton, Pennsylvania in 1979 by Hryhory Kytasty, the long-standing conductor of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus and inspiration to generations of bandura enthusiasts.
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Previous camps have featured such prominent instructors as: Hryhory Kytasty, Julian Kytasty, Oleh Mahlay, Taras Lazurkevych, Oleh Sozansky, Ola Herasymenko, Alexis Kochan, Bohdan and Halyna Heryavenko, Halyna Kvitka-Kondratsky and others.