Valery Khalilov is a Russian composer and conductor who has devoted his entire life to working in military orchestras. He called them the link between the people and the army. Khalilov rose from a private to the chief military conductor of Russia and never once doubted his choice.
Biography: childhood and adolescence
Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov was born on January 30, 1952 in the Uzbek city of Termez. His father was a military conductor. Valery and his younger brother subsequently followed in his footsteps.
Khalilov began studying music at the age of four. When he was 9 years old, the family moved to Moscow. Two years later, Valery was sent to the Moscow military music school. She was in Serebryany Bor. In an interview, Khalilov recalled that a real army spirit reigned in the school, which tempered him. He graduated from it in two classes: clarinet and piano.
After school, Khalilov became a student at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Valery chose the military conducting faculty.
Career
His first job after graduating from the conservatory was the orchestra of the Pushkin Higher Military Command School of Air Defense Radio Electronics. Valery was taken there as a conductor. Five years later, the orchestra under his direction won the competition of the Leningrad Military District.
In 1981, Khalilov began teaching. He began to teach classes at the military conducting faculty at his alma mater.
In 1984, Valery was sent to the department of the military orchestra service of the USSR Armed Forces. There he went from an officer to a deputy chief.
In 2002, Khalilov became the chief military conductor of Russia. In this position, he organized many parades throughout the country, including on Red Square.
Khalilov was not afraid to enrich the repertoire of military bands. It included songs from the Soviet era, jazz compositions and his own compositions.
Tragic death
In 2016, he became the head of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A. V. Alexandrov. Together with his artists on December 26, 2016, he died in a plane crash over the Black Sea. Then the ensemble, led by Khalilov, flew to Syria to give New Year's concerts in front of the Russian military.
Valery was buried in the cemetery near the village of Novinki, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Region. This is the homeland of his mother. He often visited Novinki in childhood, and bequeathed himself to be buried there.
In June 2018, the first monument to Valery Khalilov in Russia was erected in Tambov. At one time, he called this city the Mecca of military wind music. Khalilov also organized international brass band festivals in Tambov.
Personal life
Valery Khalilov was married. He met Natalia in Abkhazia, in her hometown of Gagra. At that time, Valery was still an ordinary soldier. In a marriage with Natalia, two daughters were born.
