Murad Kajlayev

Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev (b. 1931) is a Soviet and Dagestani composer and conductor, People's Artist of the USSR (1981), laureate of international premiums and contests, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family. He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from Boris Zeidman's composition class. He worked as a teacher at musical school named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957-1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963-1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Composers of the RSFSR (from 1968).