54 Notable alumni of
Baku Music Academy
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Baku Music Academy is 833rd in the world, 174th in Asia, and 3rd in Azerbaijan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 54 notable alumni from Baku Music Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Muslim Magomayev
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- memoiristfilm score composeropera singeractorcomposer
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Muslim Muhammad oghlu Magomayev or Muslim Magometovich Magomayev (Russian: Муслим Магометович Магомаев; 17 August 1942 – 25 October 2008), known simply as Muslim Magomayev and dubbed the "Soviet Sinatra", was a Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer. He achieved widespread recognition throughout Russia and the post-Soviet world for his vocal talent and charisma, including a People's Artist of the USSR award in 1973.
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Irina Allegrova
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- lyricistcomposersingeractor
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Irina Aleksandrovna Allegrova is a Russian singer. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2010).
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Vladimir Shainsky
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1962-1965
- Occupations
- violinistsongwritercomposerfilm score composeractor
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Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986).
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Gara Garayev
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1926-1938
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerfilm score composermusic teacherdeputy
- Biography
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Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev, also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.
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Fikret Amirov
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- composer
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Fikret Mashadi Jamil oghlu Amirov was a prominent Soviet and Azerbaijani composer.
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Polad Bulbuloghlu
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- diplomatpoliticiansingeractorcomposer
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Polad Bulbuloghlu is a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician, and diplomat. Bulbuloghlu became famous in the Soviet Union with composing jazz-influenced songs with heavy Azerbaijani folk influences in Azerbaijani and Russian languages. He also sang his own songs. Three of his songs became Songs of the Year and he received numerous prestigious awards in the Soviet Union. Bulbuloghlu is a lyrical tenor.
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Niyazi
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- conductorcomposerpoliticianfilm score composer
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Niyazi Zulfugar oghlu Taghizade Hajibeyov was a Soviet and Azerbaijani conductor and composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1959) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
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Flora Karimova
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- singeractorkhananda
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Flora Alakbar gyzy Karimova is an Azerbaijani pop, mugam and opera singer, actress.
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Bulbul
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- khanandaopera singermusic teacherfolkloristmusicologist
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Bulbul was a famous Azerbaijani and Soviet opera tenor, folk music performer, and one of the founders of vocal arts and national musical theatre in Azerbaijan.
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Vagif Mustafazadeh
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- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
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Vagif Mustafazadeh, also known as Vaqif Mustafa-Zadeh, was a Soviet-Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and the traditional Azerbaijani folk music known as mugham. According to many world famous jazz musicians, Mustafazadeh is one of the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan".
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Diana Hacıyeva
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- conductorsinger-songwritercomposersinger
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Diana Hajiyeva is an Azerbaijani singer and songwriter. She is a member and the lead vocalist of the group Dihaj, which represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Skeletons" finishing in 14th place.
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Chingiz Mustafayev
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- songwritersinger
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Chingiz Maharram oglu Mustafayev is an Azerbaijani singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Truth", finishing in eighth place.
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Tofig Guliyev
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- conductorpianistcomposerfilm score composer
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Tofig Alakbar oglu Guliyev was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Arif Malikov
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- paintercomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
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Arif Malikov was an Azerbaijani composer. He graduated from the Baku Conservatory as a music composer in 1958. He shot to fame in 1961 when his first major composition "Legend of Love" was staged at the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad (present day St Petersburg) and received nationwide acclaim. The ballet has been staged in several countries in Europe and is regarded as one of the finest works emerging from the former Soviet Union. The ballet "Legend of Love", is based upon the legend of "Farhad and Shirin", a story of unrequited love that was immortalized by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. Malikov went on to write music for two more ballets, including "Yer üzündə iki nəfər (balet)" Yer üzündə iki nəfər (balet) ("Dvoe" or "Two") (1967) and "Poem of Two Hearts" (1981), five symphonies & eight symphony poems. He also wrote scores for a large number of films and plays and was familiar with practically all genres of music composition.
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Aisel
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- singerpianistcomposer
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Aysel Mammadova, known professionally as Aisel, is an Azerbaijani singer. She represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "X My Heart". She has also performed the Azerbaijan national anthem at the opening of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2023.
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Asaf Zeynally
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- composer
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Asaf Zeynalabdin oglu Zeynally, also spelled Zeynalli (5 April 1909, Derbent – 27 October 1932, Baku), was an Azerbaijani composer.
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Emin Sabitoglu
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- composer
- Biography
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Emin Sabitoglu was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, author of a lot of well-known Azerbaijani songs and music for films. People's actor of Azerbaijan.
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Dilara Kazimova
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 2002-2006
- Occupations
- songwritersingeractorcomposerlyricist
- Biography
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Dilara Kazimova is an Azerbaijani singer and actress. She represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen with the song "Start a Fire".
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Shafiga Akhundova
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1951-1956
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Shafiga Akhundova was a prominent Azerbaijani composer, the first professional female author of an opera in the East and People’s Artist of Azerbaijan. Akhundova was born into a family of an eminent cultural figure Gulam Akhundov in Shaki in 1924. Gulam Bagir oglu Akhundov, who was a public servant and intellectual of his time, worked as the first secretary of Shaki between 1917 and 1920, while her mother was a housewife.
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Khadija Gayibova
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- pianist
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Khadija Osman bey qizi Gayibova was an Azerbaijani pianist. From Georgia in the then USSR, Gayibova died in Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s.
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Eldar Mansurov
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- composer
- Biography
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Eldar Bayram oglu Mansurov is an Azerbaijani musician, composer and songwriter.
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Leyla Aliyeva
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- television presenterjournalist
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Leyla Mutallim qizi Guliyeva is an Azerbaijani television presenter. On 22, 24 and 26 May 2012 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan together with Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen.
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Mirza Babayev
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- singeractor
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Mirza Abduljabbar oglu Babayev was an Azerbaijani movie actor and singer. He was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1956), and People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1992).
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Farhad Badalbeyli
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- musicologistpianistcomposermusic teacher
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Farhad Shamsi oghlu Badalbeyli is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer. He was awarded the honorary titles, People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1978), the People's Artist of the USSR (1990), and laureate of the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR (1986).
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Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teachermusic teachercomposermusicologist
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Franghiz Ali Aga Kïzï Ali-Zadeh is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist of contemporary classical music. Her music synthesizes Western classical modernist techniques with the Azerbaijani mugham art music. Among her better known works are the chamber piece Gabil Sajahy (1979) for cello and piano, as well as the ballet Empty Cradle (1993); she has also written instrumental, vocal and film music.
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Jovdat Hajiyev
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- composer
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Ahmad Jovdat Ismayil oglu Hajiyev was one of the major Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period. He is remembered for his monumental orchestral works, having been the first Azerbaijani to compose a symphony (1936). He studied under Azerbaijan's Founder of Composed Music, Uzeyir Hajibeyov and under Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Dinara Aliyeva
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Dinara Alieva is an Azerbaijani and Russian opera singer (soprano). She is currently a soloist at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, where she made her debut in 2009 as Liù in Puccini's opera Turandot. People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2018).
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Hokuma Gurbanova
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- actor
- Biography
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Hokuma Abbasali gizi Gurbanova was an Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1965).
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Soltan Hajibeyov
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- pianistconductormusic teachercomposerpedagogue
- Biography
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Soltan Ismayil oghlu Hajibeyov was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR (on 26 July 1973)
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Murad Kajlayev
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- member of the State Dumacomposerconductorfilm score composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev was a Russian composer and conductor. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1981), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
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Rauf Hajiyev
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- film score composerpianistpoliticianconductorcomposer
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Rauf Soltan oghlu Hajiyev was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer and politician. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR (1978). He was Chairman of the Union of Composers of the Azerbaijan SSR, minister of culture of the Azerbaijan SSR (1965–1971).
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Shamsi Badalbeyli
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1932
- Occupations
- actorfilm directortheatrical director
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Shamsi Badal oghlu Badalbeyli was an Azerbaijani theatre director and actor.
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Fidan Gasimova
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- music teacheractoropera singer
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Fidan Akram gizi Gasimova is an Azerbaijani operatic soprano who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.
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Rafig Babayev
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- film score composerpianistconductorjazz musiciancomposer
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Rafig Farzi oglu Babayev was an Azerbaijani jazz musician, composer, conductor, arranger, author of scores for films, and People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1993).
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Agshin Alizadeh
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- composer
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Agshin Aligulu Alizade was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, People's Artist of the Azerbaijani SSR (1987).
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Khayyam Mirzazade
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- music teachercomposer
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Khayyam Hadi oglu Mirzazade was an Azerbaijani composer and professor.
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Hagigat Rzayeva
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- singeractoropera singer
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Hagigat Ali qizi Rzayeva was a Soviet Azerbaijani actress and singer of folk, opera, and pop music.
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Isfar Sarabski
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- pianistDJ producercomposerjazz musician
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Isfar Rzayev-Sarabski is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer, winner of the Solo Piano Competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009, Honorary Artist of Azerbaijan (2010), and receiver of the Zirva State Prize (2010). He is the great-grandson of Huseyngulu Sarabski, celebrated Azerbaijani opera singer, actor and one of the founders of opera in the Islamic world.
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Khuraman Gasimova
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- pedagogueopera singer
- Biography
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Khuraman Gasimova is an Azerbaijani opera singer (soprano) and actress.
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Nushabe Elesgerli
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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İnstagram Alasgar gizi Hummatova is an Azerbaijani singer, actress, PhD in art history, and Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Faraj Garayev
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- music teacheruniversity teachercomposer
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Faraj Gara oglu Garayev; December 19, 1943 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani composer, music instructor, professor, son of the prominent Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev and one of the leading composers of post-Soviet period.
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Tofig Bakikhanov
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- composermusic teacherartist
- Biography
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Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov is a composer. He was awarded the title People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1990).
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Aygun Samedzade
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- musicologistperforming artistsongwritercomposer
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Aygun Ziyad gizi Samedzade is an Azerbaijani composer and songwriter. She has been People's Artist of Azerbaijan since 2018.
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Amina Figarova
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- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
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Amina Figarova is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist. Trained as a classical pianist in Baku, she became interested in the local folk music, later specializing in jazz. Since the late 1980s, together with her husband, the flutist Bart Platteau, she has performed in jazz festivals around the world.
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Yalchin Adigezalov
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- conductor
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Yalchin Vasif oghlu Adigezalov is Azerbaijani conductor and teacher. People's Artist of Azerbaijan. Adigezalov is a professor at the State Music Academy of Azerbaijan, the Baku Music Academy and Azerbaijan State Conservatory. He is a member of the third generation of a famous musical dynasty.
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Franghiz Ahmadova
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- music teacheropera singerdeputy
- Biography
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Franghiz Ahmadova also Firangiz Ahmedova, was a prominent Azerbaijani operatic soprano and music teacher. From 1951, she performed as a soloist at the Azerbaijani State Opera. She toured widely across the former Soviet Union, singing in the major opera houses of eastern Europe.
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Shahin Novrasli
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- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Shahin Novrasli is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist, and composer.
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Rauf Abdullayev
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1959
- Occupations
- conductorart director
- Biography
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Rauf Janbakhish oghlu Abdullayev is a chief conductor of Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, professor, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, laureate of the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR, Istiglal Order and "Golden Plane" international award.
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Kovkab Safaraliyeva
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- pianistcomposerpedagogue
- Biography
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Kovkab Kamil qizi Safaraliyeva was an Azerbaijani classical pianist, piano instructor, and concertmaster.
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Salman Gambarov
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- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Salman Huseyn oglu Gambarov is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer.
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Rauf Babayev
- Enrolled in Baku Music Academy
- Studied in 1962
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- singer
- Biography
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Rauf Yusuf oghlu Babayev was an Azerbaijani singer (tenor), People's Artiste of Azerbaijan (2006).
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Javid Samadov
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- opera singer
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Javid Samadov is an Azerbaijani baritone opera singer, who currently resides in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Yusif Akhundzade
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- conductormilitary personnel
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Major General Yusif Akhundzade is a prestigious Azerbaijani military conductor and director. Akhundzade is the current Senior Military Director of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. He also serves concurrently as the director of the Central Band of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, a position he has held since 1992.
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Ayyub Guliyev
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- musicianconductor
- Biography
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Ayyub Ramiz oghlu Guliyev
