Sergey Nikolaevich Kostiuchenko (
Russian
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:Сергей Николаевич Костюченко) is a Belarusian military conductor. He is the former Chief Director of the
, holding this post from 2008-2019. At 11 in the band service was the second longest serving director of the bands after Alexander Fedorov who served for 14 years.
Early life and career
He was born on December 17, 1965. At the age of six he began to learn to play the
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
and wind instruments. In 1981, Kostiuchenko was enrolled in the
Moscow Military Music College
The Valery Khalilov Moscow Suvorov Military Music College is one of the leading military music institutions in Russia. It is a separate branch of the Suvorov Military Schools in Russia, and the oldest of them all (opened 1937).
History
On Augu ...
. After graduating with honors in 1985, he entered the Tchaikovsky
Moscow State Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...
. In 1990, he was appointed the chief conductor for the massed bands of the
Belarusian Military District
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. Between 1990 and 2008, he served as military conductor of the Band of the
103rd Guards Airborne Division
The 103rd Separate Guards Airborne Brigade is an airborne brigade of the Belarusian Special Forces. Its predecessor unit was the 103rd Guards Airborne Division (russian: 103-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная орден ...
. He later would serve as chief conductor for the Band of the Minsk Higher Engineering Air Defense Missile School and the
Honor Guard of the Armed Forces. At the same time, he simultaneously served as the deputy chief of the military band service under V. Ermolaev. Since 2008, he has served as the Director of the
Military Band Service of the Armed Forces and the exemplary central band. During his tenure as chief director, he put the Central band of the armed forces in many military festivals, such as Moscow's
Spasskaya Tower Military Music Festival and Tattoo
The Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival is an annual military music event and military tattoo held in Moscow on Red Square. Participating in the festival are Russian and foreign military bands, folk groups, and honor guard units o ...
.
He retired in the summer of 2019, with his last public duty being the director of the bands of the Minsk Garrison during the
Minsk Independence Day Parade
The Minsk Independence Day Parade ( be, Парад у Мінску ў гонар Незалежнасці Беларусі) also known as the July 3 Parade is the main event of the Independence Day of Belarus. This parade is held annually in Mins ...
in 2019, which celebrated the 75th anniversary of the
Minsk Offensive. He was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel Igor Khlebus.
See also
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References
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1965 births
Living people
Belarusian composers
Belarusian military personnel
Moscow Conservatory alumni
Moscow Military Music College alumni
Military musicians