Vladislav Chernushenko

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich and the family name is Chernushenko.

Vladislav Chernushenko Владислав Чернушенко
File:2020 год, Народный артист СССР Владислав Чернушенко на сцене СПб Капеллы.png Chernushenko in 2020
Background information
Born	(1936-01-14) January 14, 1936 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Conductor

Vladislav Alexandrovich Chernushenko (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Чернуше́нко; born January 14, 1936) is a Soviet and Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR and State Prize laureate. He was educated at the Choir School of the State Cappella, where his teacher was Pallady Bogdanov, and later moved to the Leningrad Conservatory where he was under the guidance of Ilya Musin, Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Nikolay Rabinovich. In 1974 he became principal conductor of the Saint Petersburg State Academic Capella. From 1979 to 2002 he was rector of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Awards and honours

• Winner of the international competition in Debrecen, Hungary (1970)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978)
• Winner of the international competition in Gorizia, Italy (1979)
• Laureate of the Glinka State Prize (1981)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1991)
• Order of Friendship (1996)
• Winner of the French Academy of Arts Award (1999)
• Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (1994)
• Silver medal of the Holy Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (2004)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III and IV degrees (2019, 2005)
• Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree (2006)
• Honorary Citizen of Saint Petersburg (2016)