Anvar Ergashev

Anvar Yuldoshevich Ergashev was born on 19 April 1954 into a conductor's family and grew up in Fergana. He graduated from the Tashkent State Conservatory in piano (1977), composition (1986) and opera-symphonic conducting (1994).

He worked as a teacher, a ministry official and a pedagogue at the Tashkent Institute of Culture, and held conducting posts at the Navoi Theatre and the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan.

He wrote more than 200 works, including symphonic and chamber pieces, two piano concertos and a piano trio, and composed music for more than 50 films (Boys in the Sky, Bomba, Uch qirolning jangi, Sharif va Ma'rif and others). His stage works include the operetta Kroshka and the ballets Humo (2005) and Chexoviana (2005–2010), as well as New Year children's musical fairy tales such as 12 Months and The Snow Queen.

He was named Best Composer of the Year in the Ofarin Award (2000), Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (2002) and received the State Prize, 1st degree (2007), for the music of Humo. He died on 8 August 2020 in Tashkent.