Alan Buribaev (Kazakh: born 1979; surname also spelled Buribayev in English) is a Kazakh conductor the son of a cellist/conductor father and a pianist mother. He studied violin and conducting at the Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty. He was later a conducting student of Uros Lajovic in Vienna. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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