Background
Valery Ivanovich Petrov was born on May 16, 1929 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
composer teacher commissioned bandmaster
Valery Ivanovich Petrov was born on May 16, 1929 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
In 1943 Valery Ivanovich graduated from the Musical College at Moscow Conservatory in the pipe class. His teacher was Mikhail Innokentievich Tabakov. From 1943 to 1945 he was a graduate of the orchestra of the V.I. Lenin Military-Political Academy. In 1949 he graduated from the Higher School of Bandmasters (Moscow). In 1954 he underwent an adjunct at the Institute of Bandmasters in Moscow.
In 1949-1950 Petrov worked as a commissioned bandmaster of Frunze Military Academy. After that, he was orchestras’ controller of the Voronezh Military District (1956-1960). Petrov was also a lecturer at the Bandmasters’ Faculty of the Moscow Conservatory in different periods of his life (1954-1956, 1960-1982). After that, he took a position of a deputy editor-in-chief of the Main Editorial Board of Music Broadcasting of the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (1982-1990).
In last years he was lecturing at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (1993-2003), and at the same time was a consultant editor of the Russian State Music Center (1995-2002). Works: martial music "Sport festival", "Winter ballade", "Overture", "Heart’s memory" and so on.