Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Blinov (25 September 1950, Yaltunovo, Okskoye Rural Settlement, Ryazan District, Ryazan Oblast, RSFSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian conductor.
Vyacheslav Blinov was born in 1950 in the village of Yaltunovo, Ryazan Region, Russia.
In 1975 he graduated from the Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) Conservatoire, and in 1979 from the Moscow Conservatoire, class of Leo Ginzburg. In 1980-1983, he was an assistant at the Novosibirsk Conservatoire, class of Arnold Katz.
In 1976-1979 he was the chief conductor of the Moscow Teacher's House Symphony Orchestra.
In 1979-1988 he was conductor of the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
In 1982 he became a laureate of the 1st All-Russian Competition of Conductors.
In 1988-1997 he was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Dnipro Symphony Orchestra, and in 1997-1999 he was the chief conductor of the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre.
In 1991, he was awarded the honorary title of Honoured Artist of Ukraine.
In 1992, he was the Chief Conductor of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1999-2005, he was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The conductor believed that his dismissal was unjustified and challenged it in court.
Creative work
Vyacheslav Blinov first performed a number of works by Ukrainian composers, including Valentyn Silvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych, Myroslav Skoryk, Valentyn Bibik, Borys Buevskyi, Volodymyr Zubytskyi, Ivan Karabyts, Zhanna Kolodub, Volodymyr Runchak, and Viktor Muzhchyl.
He performs at the international festivals Kyiv Music Fest, Music Premieres of the Season, and Forum of Young Music.
He tours cities of Ukraine and abroad. In 1992 and 1993, together with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, he opened the international festival "Ohrid Summer" in Macedonia, and in 1993 - the festival "Gaude Mater" in Czestochowa (Poland).
He has made numerous recordings on radio and television in Ukraine and other countries. He has recorded 9 discs and CDs with works by E. Stankovych, W. A. Mozart, R. Strauss, J. Strauss, S. Rachmaninoff, G. Rossini, F. Schubert, and A. Liadov.
