President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed well-known and respected Toleubek Alpiyev as new director of The Astana Opera State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
Alpiyev is a graduate of the Almaty and Moscow conservatories and was a violinist in a number of orchestras in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. He has also worked as managing director of the tour and concert association Kazakhconcert, director of the Zhambyl State Philharmonic, deputy chairman of Kazakhstan’s State Committee on Culture, and the nation’s Deputy Minister of Culture.
Since 2000, Alpiyev served as director of newly opened National Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after Kulyash Baiseitova in Astana, where he quickly established the theatre’s creative groups and conducted significant organisational work in the first season. Awarded by the Kurmet and Parasat orders, since 2013 Alpiyev served as deputy director of Astana Opera.
Minister of Culture and Sports Arystan Mukhamediuly introduced the new director to the theatre company on Nov. 14. The minister thanked the opera’s first director Tolegen Mukhamedzhanov for his excellent work in launching what is meant to be a world-class artistic company based in the Kazakh capital. Mukhamedzhanov said he was proud of being part of the opera’s early history and thankful to President Nazarbayev for trusting him with the mission as well as respecting his desire to take a break to pursue his own creative projects.
INC News, 18/11/2014-via Ak Zhaik
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