Vladislav Chernushenko

Vladislav Chernushenko (born January 14, 1936) is a Soviet/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.