Valery Khalilov
Valery M. Khalilov | |
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Native name | Валерий Михайлович Халилов |
Born |
Valeriy Mikhaylovich Khalilov January 30, 1952 Termiz, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Termez, Uzbekistan) |
Nationality | Russian |
Occupation | Military conductor, composer |
Title | Lieutenant general |
Relatives | V.M. Khalilov (brother) |
Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov (Russian: Валерий Михайлович Халилов; born January 30, 1952) is a Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and a musical composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he has conducted several times at the annual "Victory Day" parade held in the Moscow Red Square.
Early life and education
Khalilov was born into a family famous for producing military conductors on January 30, 1952 in the city of Termez, Uzbekistan. At the age of 4, he began to compose his own music. A career officer, he graduated from the Moscow Military Musicians School at the age of 11. From 1970 to 1975 he was on the conducting faculty of the Moscow State Conservatory Tchaikovsky (class of Professor GP Alyavdin).
Career
Khalilov's first posting was being a conductor at the Pushkin Higher School of Radioelectronics of Air Defense of the country PVO, before being a teacher at the Moscow military conductor's faculty in 1981. As conductor of the Pushkin Higher School he had won first place in the competition of military bands of the Leningrad Military District in 1980 and gained the attention of the chief conductor of the Moscow Military District Orchestra, Major General Nikolai Mikhailov, who brought him into that orchestra as deputy conductor in 1984. He subsequently the governing body of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the USSR the same year.
Khalilov has been a member of that orchestra since then, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming chief conductor himself in 2002. In May 2015, Khalilov became a member of the Board of Trustees' Academy festive culture. As of 2016 he remains the chief conductor of the orchestra.
Khalilov is the organizer of many festive theatrical events in Moscow which are attended by Russian military brass bands and groups from many countries. Such events include international military music festivals "The Kremlin Zorya", and "Spasskaya Tower". He toured with the leading orchestras of the Russian Armed Forces in Austria, Sweden, United States, Germany, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Finland, France, Switzerland, and Belgium.
Khalilov is also an accomplished music composer apart from being a military conductor, and has written pieces for the brass band including "Adagio" and "Elegy", marches such as "Cadet", "Youth", "Rynda", "Ulan", as well as romances and songs. He has composed many new military marches and songs, some of which he uses in the annual Red Square Victory Day parades. In his career, he has earned many awards including: the Order of Honor; Order for Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd Class; the Medal for Military Merit, 1st Class; and the title of People's Artist of Russia.
Personal life
His brother is Lieutenant-General VM Khalilov, a senior Lecturer at the Military Institute of Military Conductors, Russian Military University who won the Honored Artist of Russia in 1997. Colonel Alexander Khalilov was the composer of the famous song "We are moving away from the East" in the band "Cascade" and was the head of this group. His nephew, Mikhail Khalilov, is a graduate of the Military Institute (military conductors) Military University in 2011.
External links
http://www.echo.msk.ru/guests/584063-echo/