“It is with deepest regret that we inform you that Oleg Evgenyevich Talypin, People's Artist of Russia, professor of the Department of Woodwind Instruments, died on the 91st year of life on December 10, 2019,” the statement said.

Information about the place and time of farewell to the artist will appear later.

Oleg Talypin performed at the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic, as well as at the Kirov Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (Mariinsky Theater), and since 1981 taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

On December 1, the People's Artist of the RSFSR, conductor Maris Jansons, died.