Ukrainian and Russian conductor and educator, winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1947 (for the production of Marian Koval's opera The Sevastopolites in 1946) and 1951 (for the production of Lev Stepanov's opera Ivan Bolotnikov in 1950), 1958 - People's Artist of the RSFSR, Chevalier of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Biography.
He comes from a family of musicians. In 1917-1924 he was an artist of the Kyiv Opera Orchestra.
In 1924, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in the class of L. P. Steinberg and A. Pazovsky.
In 1924-1929 he was the chief conductor of the Kyiv and regional opera theaters, in 1929-1930 - of the Crimean Opera House, in 1930-1931 - of the First Mobile Ukrainian Opera House (DROT), in 1932-1933 - of the Baku Opera House and Radio Orchestra, in 1933-1944 - conductor of the Sverdlovsk Symphony Orchestra.
In 1944-1955 he was the chief conductor of the Perm Opera House and the Perm Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, in 1955-1960 he was the chief conductor of the Sverdlovsk Symphony Orchestra, in 1960-1962 - of the Kharkiv Symphony Orchestra, in 1962-1966 - of the Voronezh Opera House.
He worked at the Rostov Opera House.
He made the first productions of works by many composers of the Soviet era, including:
G. Beloglazov's "Okhonya",
V. Trambitsky's The Eagle, second edition, and For Life.
His repertoire included works by I. Dzerzhynskyi, V. Trambytskyi, A. Spadavecchia, T. Khrennykov, and O. Chyshko.
He worked as a teacher: in 1930-31 - in Sverdlovsk, 1932-33 - in Baku Music College, 1933-44 - again in Sverdlovsk, 1939-44 - in Sverdlovsk Conservatory, 1944-55 - in Perm Music College, 1960-62 - in Kharkiv Conservatory.
