on february 18, 1935, composer, people's artist of belarus, sergei cortez, was born in chile. mother’s family emigrated in the twenties of the last century; he began studying music in buenos aires with a graduate of the st. petersburg conservatory, yakov fischer. until the age of 20, the future belarusian composer bore the surname of his grandfather shastakovsky. cortez only took his father's surname arriving in minsk in 1955. graduated from the belarusian conservatory. his first opera by jordan bruno is brilliant. took place in two large theaters, belarusian and moscow. in 1972, after theatrical works on various metropolitan stages, sergei albertovich became the music editor of the belarus film studio and created magnificent music for films, i’ll take your pain, scattered nest, black castle alshansky and others. in addition, for 11 years sergei cortez. worked as director of the bolshoi theater of belarus to always be in the know current news, subscribe to us on all social networks, and also in the convenient telegram messenger, like, react and write comments. in the meantime,