Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan

The Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan is a military music unit made for state ceremonies carried out by the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan. It was formed on November 8, 1995 in accordance with the Directive of the Minister of Defense, Army General Sagadat Nurmagambetov. In 2012 the orchestra was relocated from the city of Almaty to Astana. At this time, The Central Military Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan is not only an invariable participant of all socially significant events in the republic, but has become essentially an educational and methodological center of the Military Orchestra Service of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The orchestra commonly performs during the Astana Day celebrations on Independence Square.