Victor Pavlovich Dubrovsky |

Victor Dubrovsky

Dubrovsky graduated from the Moscow Conservatory … twice. Both times with honors. First as a violinist in the class of L. Zeitlin (1E49), and then as a conductor in the class of Leo Ginzburg (1953). The improvement of the young musician continued in the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, where he worked since 1952 as an assistant conductor.

In 1956-1962, Dubrovsky led the symphony orchestra of the Belarusian Philharmonic. Under his leadership, the team raised its performance level, enriched the repertoire. Dubrovsky became the first performer of works by many Belarusian composers; he introduced the audience of the capital of the republic with many works of classics and contemporary authors. For over 10 years, Dubrovsky taught conducting at the Belarusian State Conservatory and the Moscow State Institute of Culture.

Since 1962, Dubrovsky has been the artistic director of the N.P. Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra for 15 years. In 1988, Dubrovsky created for the first time in the Smolensk region a professional Russian folk orchestra, becoming its artistic director and chief conductor, and since 1991 he has simultaneously been the artistic director and chief conductor of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus.

For 45 years of concert activity, conductor Dubrovsky has toured in more than 50 countries of the world, he has about 2500 concerts to his credit. In 1968, in Hamburg, he was awarded the “Golden Disc”. Since 1995, the Smolensk Russian Folk Orchestra has been named after Dubrovsky, its founder and leader.