Rufat Hasanov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1982. He started playing the tar at the age of seven. In 1997 he was awarded a…
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Rahman Asadollahi, from Southern Azerbaijan, was born in 1951 and is considered the most accomplished garmon player, which is the Azerbaijani accordion. He started playing…
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Chingiz Sadykhov was a world-class pianist from Azerbaijan. Maestro Chingiz Sadykhov played piano as a concert pianist and accompanist to the greatest singers of Azerbaijan…
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Born in 1953 in Ganja (Azerbaijan), Askar Alakbarov studied music in Ganja Technical Music. Later he studied at College Music Academy of Azerbaijan folkloric instruments…
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Born in 1964 in Sumqayit, Alihan Samedov is a master player of wind instruments (balaban, clarinet, tutek, zurna, saxophone) and Azerbaijani folk instruments. Samedov studied…
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Marika Falk was born in Vienna, in a Hungarian family of musicians. She plays numerous percussion instruments such as frame drums and hand drums,inclufding the…
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Gulay & The Ensemble Aras In 1989, Gulay & The Ensemble Aras was established in Vienna with the intention of creating a type of world…
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Ballycotton started at the beginning of 1996 with a temporary band called Glakijamus. Three members this stayed together: Matthias Jakisic (fiddle), Alexander König (bouzouki, mandolin, banjo,…
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Marwan Abado was born a Palestinian refugee in Beirut, Lebanon in 1967. As a child from Christian Palestinians he experienced as a child the fate…
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