Born in 1951, he graduated with honours from the Moscow Military Music School in 1970 as a clarinet major and in 1975 from the Military Conducting Faculty of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.
From 1975 to 1989 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR in Kyiv. From 1987 to 1989 he also taught at the State Academy for Managerial Staff in Culture and the Arts and at the Republican Research and Methodological Centre for Folk Art and Cultural Education of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR.
From 1989 to 1994 he served with the Western Group of Forces in Germany, first as conductor and, from 1993, as Chief Conductor of the Headquarters Band of the Western Group of Forces. During these years he gave more than two hundred concerts, around fifty of them charitable, for which he repeatedly received letters of thanks from the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Germany; the Headquarters Band took part more than twenty times in international festivals in Germany, France, and Luxembourg among NATO‑country bands and regularly appeared as a prize‑winner, worthily representing Russian musical art.
In 1996–1997 he was conductor of the State Wind Orchestra of Russia.
From 1997 to 2013 he worked at the V. M. Blazhevich Moscow State Children’s Music School as the School’s Director and, in 1998–1999, at the Television and Radio Broadcasting Music Centre.
From 2013 to 2016 he served as Director of the State College of Wind Art.
He has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since 2001 and has headed the Orchestral Conducting Department since 2020.
Orchestras under Vladimir Grigoryevich Lebusov’s direction have enjoyed great success in many cities across Russia and Ukraine as well as in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Austria.
Vladimir G. Lebusov is a renowned musician, conductor, and teacher and a member of the Presidium of the International Union of Musical Figures.
Awards and titles:
- Honorary title «Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR» (1989);
- Honorary title «Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation» (2005);
- Honorary title «Honoured Worker of the All‑Russian Musical Society»;
- Honorary title «Honoured Worker of the Moscow Musical Society»;
- Vice‑President of the Valery Khalilov Wind Music Society Association.
