Valery Khalilov Russian Army Victory Day Concert Концерт В. Халилов

A musical concert performance of Russian military songs conducted by Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov of the Central Military Band of Russia. About Valery Khalilov: 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. 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 br