Colonel Volodymyr Anatolievich Dashkovsky ( Ukrainian: Володимир Анатолійович Дашковський) also known as Vladimir Dashkovsky is a Ukrainian military conductor and composer who serves as the Senior Military Director of the

Military Music Department of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces The Military Music Department of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces serves as the official service of military bands and choirs in active service within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. List of Directors General – Senior Directors of ...

(MMD-GSAFU) based in

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Biography

Dashkovsky was born in the city of

Cherkasy Cherkasy (, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy serves as the administrative centre of Cherkasy Oblast as well as Cherkasy Raion within the oblast. The city has a population of Cherkasy is the cultural, educational and industrial centre ...

, in the central part of the

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in early 1965. In 1987, he graduated with honors from the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. Th ...

in the

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and afterwards, returned to Ukraine to conduct in the military bands

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until 1993. Once the KVO was disbanded, he conducted military bands in the

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for 5 years until 1998. Upon his removal from the OVO, he formed the 7th Military Headquarters Band of the Northern Operational Command in

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, which would later become the Military Music Center of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in 2003. He quickly rose through the ranks of the department in the years after, before being appointed the Director of Music of the

, a position he has served in since 2014. Since then, he has conducted the massed bands of the MMD-GSAFU during the

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s on

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that followed.

Titles

* Honored Artist of Ukraine (1999) *

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(12 January 2009)

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Biography

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