14 Facts About Fuat Mansurov

Fuat Mansurov was a Soviet and Russian conductor.

Fuat Mansurov graduated from Al-Farabi University in 1950 as a mathematician and then became a faculty member of the School of Math and Sciences there.

In 1951 Mansurov graduated from Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty, as a conductor.

Between 1949 - 1952 Fuat Mansurov was a conductor of the Kurmangazy Kazakh Orchestra of Folk Instruments and then he became a conductor of Kazakh Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1951 Fuat Mansurov became a faculty member of the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty.

In 1958 Fuat Mansurov became a founding member of the Kazakh National Symphony Orchestra.

Fuat Mansurov held a position of Music Director and Principal Conductor with this orchestra till 1962.

Between 1953 - 1956 and then between 1963 - 1968 Fuat Mansurov worked as an opera and ballet conductor of the Abay Opera House.

Since 1968 Fuat Mansurov became a Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Musa Calil.

Since 1969 Fuat Mansurov became a conductor of Moscow Bolshoi Theatre.

In 1970 Fuat Mansurov became a Professor of Moscow Conservatory and in 1986 became a Professor of Kazan Conservatory in Kazan.

From 1989 and till his death in 2010, Fuat Mansurov was a Principal Conductor and Music Director of Tatar State Symphony Orchestra in Kazan.

Fuat Mansurov was a People's Artist of Russia, Tatarstan, and Kazakhstan.

In 1991 Fuat Mansurov conducted the Bolshoi at the New York Metropolitan Opera for performances of Mlada and Eugene Onegin.