Kelberg Abatoli Vitalievich - musical expert, lecturer. Born 1929, in Leningrad. In 1951 graduated from Kurmangazy Alma-Ata State conservatory (the class of Prof. P.V.Aravin), where he taught the history of music to 1959. Since 1959 until now - lecturer. Kelberg is the ardent propagandist of classic and modern foreign, Kazak and Russian music, consummate master of oratory. Kelberg conducts an active lecturing work at the radio, television, at all the organisations, where the         remarkable narrator is invited, in order to listen to the favourite, familiar and unknown musical compositions with very interesting comments by him. Keenly commenting on significant events of the times, Kelberg regularly deals with musical life of the country. A particular position in his lectures the popularisation of Kazak modern music takes place, revealing the urgent problems of composing   and   performing   creative   work. Kelberg’s compositions are interesting not only to specialists, but in the first place to connoisseurs of music, they are read as absorbing works of art, but not as musicology works: «Ye.Brusilovsky», «V mire charuiushchikh zvukov (In the world of fascinating sounds)», «Как nauchitsya slushat i ponimat musyku (How to learn and understand music)», «Vecher valsa (The Waltz evening)»; the radio and television broadcast: «V mire musyki (In music world)», «Nasha muzykalnayia galereyia (Our musical gallery)», «Istoricheski put kazakhskoi opery (Historical way of Kazak opera)», «Velikie ispolniteli (The great performers)», «Rasskazy о muzykalnykh instrumentakh (Stories about musical instruments)», «Muzykalnayia gostinayia (Musical lounge)», «Vremia i muzyka (Time and music)».