Yevgeny Yakovlevich Fomin (b. Moscow, March 28, 1946) died there on March 13, 2008, only two weeks before his 62nd birthday. He graduated from the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music College in 1967 as a pupil of Nikolay Nikolayevich Yavorsky (1917-94) and in 1972 from Moscow Conservatory as a pupil of Prof. Georgy Antonovich Orvid (1904-80), who had been for a time Vice Minister of Culture. Fomin was a member of the USSR Symphony Orchestra in the 1971-72 season, then principal trumpeter in two important Moscow orchestras: the Academic Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic (1974-90) and from 1990 until his death in the new Russian National Symphony Orchestra, the so-called "Pletnev orchestra", where his colleagues were Maloshtanov, Ikov, and Kompaneitsev. Fomin also taught in various institutions such as the Moscow Musical College, Moscow Children's Music School No. 15, the Gnesin Academy, and from 1996, as Lev Volodin's successor, at the Moscow Conservatory.  Yevgeny Rater, who now lives in Israel and works with ensembles including the Israel Museum Symphony Orchestra and teaches at Jerusalem Ron Shulamit Conservatory, and to whom we owe this information, states Fomin “was principal in the Moscow Philharmonic during Kitayenko's tenure in the 1980s. It was a really good orchestra. I've listened to Beethoven's 9th, Shostakovich's 1st, Skryabin's pieces with Fomin - I still remember his sound."