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Dustmuhammadov, Damir

Tajik composer Damir Vohidovich Dustmuhammadov was born in

Tashkent on August 6, 1941.

Dustmuhammadov graduated from the Dushanbe Institute of Dra-

matic Arts in 1963, and from the Moscow State Conservatory in 1970.

He served as the Secretary of the Union of Composers of Tajikistan, as

well as a teacher at the State Institute of Arts, and as the Director of the

Dushanbe Institute of Music. Until 1979, he was the Director of the

Aini State Theater for Opera and Ballet. In 1976, he became the Associ-

ate Chair of the Union of Composers of Tajikistan. In 1986, he became

the Head of the Union of Composers of Tajikistan. He became an As-

sistant Professor in 1991 in the Dushanbe Institute of Dramatic Arts,

and a full professor in 1998.

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