Vitaly Vitalievich Kataev (Kataev, Vitaly) |

Kataev, Vitaly

In the two best conservatories in the country, Kataev received his conducting education: at the Moscow (1951-1956) he studied with K. Kondrashin and E. Ratser, in the graduate school of the Leningrad (1957-1960) – with N. Rabinovich. Kataev began his independent artistic activity as a conductor of the Karelian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1956-1953). He mastered the practice of theater conducting at the Opera Studio of the Leningrad Conservatory (1959-1960). The artist combined concert activity in Moscow with teaching, heading the department of opera training at the Gnessin Musical and Pedagogical Institute (1960-1962). Since 1962, Kataev has been the chief conductor of the symphony orchestra of the Byelorussian SSR. At the same time he teaches at the Minsk Conservatory. Possessing a wide repertoire, the conductor constantly tours the Soviet Union, and performed abroad – in Romania, Yugoslavia, England. Kataev pays considerable attention in his concert programs to modern music – Soviet and foreign. He was the first performer of many works by Belarusian authors – E. Tikotsky, N. Aladov, E. Glebov, G. Wagner, L. Abeliovich, D. Kaminsky, D. Smolsky and others.

L. Grigoriev, J. Platek, 1969