MOSCOW, May 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated conductor Valery Gergiev on his birthday, noting the maestro’s enormous spiritual contribution to the education of youth, the corresponding telegram was published on the Kremlin website.
Artistic director — director, chief conductor of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Abisalovich Gergiev was born on May 2, 1953.
«Dear Valery Abisalovich! Please accept congratulations on your birthday. An outstanding musician, conductor, talented , a person passionate about his favorite work, for many years you have been selflessly serving art and rightfully enjoying truly worldwide recognition. Your enormous creative contribution to the enhancement of our unique cultural and spiritual heritage, to the education of gifted youth, is worthy of the most sincere respect. I wish you health, inexhaustible inspiration and success. «, the message says.