Murad Adigozalzadeh is a pianist and director of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic. He received the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2005 and People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2011.
Born in Baku on November 20, 1973, he entered the Bulbul Special Music School in 1980. In 1984, he took part in the Concertino Prague international radio competition and was named among its ten best young performers. After touring Czechoslovakia in 1987, he competed in an international piano competition in Germany in 1990 and toured Turkey. In 1991, he entered the Baku State Music Academy, where he studied with Professor R. Atakishiyev and later Professor Farhad Badalbeyli. He won the 1996 Republican Piano Competition and was named Best Pianist of the Year; in December that year, he was named Best Musician of the Year.
After graduating from the Baku academy in 1996, Adigozalzadeh studied with Elena Virsaladze at the Munich Higher School of Music, graduating in 1998. He continued his studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Virsaladze and graduated in November 2000. During his studies, he performed in Moscow, Turkey, and Baku, and took part in a Kyiv festival with students of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation. He later performed with the Bursa State Symphony Orchestra and the Ingolstadt Chamber Orchestra, and took part in the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2002.
His repertoire includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. He has performed Azerbaijani music in Baku and elsewhere, working with conductors N. Rzayev, R. Abdullayev, Y. Adigozalov, R. Melik-Aslanov, V. Sirenko, V. Jordania, V. Altshuler, V. Verbitsky, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Fedoseyev, and Vakhtang Kakhidze. In 2004, he received the title of soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic. He has also served as an associate professor in the piano department of the Baku Music Academy. His father was pianist and professor Zoghrab Adigozalzadeh, and his grandfather was writer Imran Gasimov.
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