Honored artist of Russia Eduard Gustin, for many years headed the Symphony orchestra of the State Philharmonic society of St. Petersburg for children and youth, has died at 91-year life.
About this sad news reported in the city Committee on culture.
it is Noted that Edward G. was born 25 Nov 1929 in Odessa. In 1933 the family moved to Leningrad, where he studied in children’s music Studio. In 1941, when studies were interrupted because of the war, 13-year-old worked at the Kirov plant in shop on manufacture of shells. During the siege, killed the mother and older brother. In the spring of 1943, he was evacuated to the North Caucasus, returned to Leningrad in 1945 and continued his musical studies in the Studio.
In 1956, he graduated from the naval faculty at the Leningrad State Conservatory named after N. Rimsky-Korsakov and was sent to a military conductor on the cruiser “Ordzhonikidze”.
Gustin was chief conductor of the Krasnodar and Sverdlovsk theatre of operettas, conductor of the Musical theatre of Petrozavodsk, the conductor of the Symphony orchestra of the Tomsk Philharmonic society.
In 1979, he finally returned to Leningrad and in the same year creates a “Symphony orchestra of popular classical music”, the main conductor which becomes. Since 2004 worked at the State Philharmonic for children and youth in St. Petersburg, as chief conductor of the Symphony orchestra.
