Valery Kuzmich Polyansky (Russian: ''Валерий Кузьмич Полянский''; born April 19, 1949, in
Moscow
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) is a Russian
orchestra
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l and
choral
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conductor
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. He is a
professor
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of the
Moscow Conservatory
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,
People's Artist of Russia
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(1996),
artistic director, chief conductor and founder of the
State Symphony Capella of Russia
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.
Biography
Polyansky was born at April 19, 1949 in Moscow.
He studied at the Academic Music College at the
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, graduating in 1967. Then he studied at the Moscow Conservatory.
Awards and honours
*Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
*
State Prize of the Russian Federation
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in the field of literature and the arts in 1995
*People's Artist of Russia (1996)
*
Order of Honour (1999)
*Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", III and IV degrees (2019, 2007)
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References
External links
Biography
1949 births
Living people
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
People's Artists of Russia
21st-century Russian conductors (music)
Russian male conductors (music)
21st-century Russian male musicians
Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
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