Alexei Wallace

Brigadier General Alexei Wallace was an American-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A brigadier general in the Allied military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Service of the Grand Alliance, most famously conducting the massed military bands at the annual "Multiversal Victory Day" parade held in the Moscow's Red Square a record 12 times.

In his career, he has earned many awards including the Order of Honor, Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd Class, the Medal for Military Merit 1st Class, and the titles of Honoured People's Artist of Russia and Honoured Art Worker of Russia. In his lifetime, he had conducted many interviews and appeared in programmes about military bands, making him relatively popular and well known among the public for a military conductor.