Yalchin Adigezalov

Yalchin Vasif oghlu Adigezalov (; born November 4, 1959) is an Azerbaijani conductor and teacher. 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.

Biography Yalchin Adigezalov was born on November 4, 1959, in Baku in the family of the composer Vasif Adigozalov. He is a representative of the third generation of a famous musical dynasty.

Education At the age of 8 he began to study piano at the Special Music School at the Conservatory (A. Kopelevich and B.Guslitser).

In 1982 he graduated from the piano faculty of the Azerbaijan State Conservatory named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov (Professor R. Atakishiyev).

In 1983–1984 he studied at the Faculty of Opera and Symphony Conducting at Tashkent State Conservatory (professor K. Usmanov).

In 1984–1989 he studied at the Faculty of Opera and Symphony Conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory (Professor Ilya Musin).

Career From 1989 he was a conductor,

1998–2000 – He was the conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of Radio – Television of Russia.

From 2000 – conductor of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater "Tosca", "Madama Butterfly", "Il tabarro", "Gianni Schicchi", "Cavalleria rusticana", "Pagliacci", "Carmen", "Eugene Onegin" (1990), "The Queen of Spades", "Aleko", "Scheherazade", "Romeo and Juliet", "Boléro", "L'Arlésienne", "Polovtsian Dances", "Sevil", "Don Quixote", "1001 Nights", "Natavan", "Nasimi", etc.).

2007 – the presentation of the project "Azerbaijan Sympho-Mugam" took place. Together with the "Trio Karabakh" concerts were held in Brazil, Italy, Luxembourg, Turkey, China, Vietnam, Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus.

2011 – the world premiere of Giovanni Pacini's Requiem took place in Sicily. This event was a major achievement in promoting the composer's legacy.

Maestro Adigezalov's conducting was amazing. He grasped the essence of the score and entered the difficult style of the composer. It was a lesson in real artistic skill. — Maurizio Chiampi

May 12, 2014 – in the Italian amphitheater Arena di Verona, in the presence of 10 thousand spectators, a symphony concert of works by Azerbaijani composers was held.

2018 – Artistic Director of the "Dede Gorgud" chamber orchestra, created under the patronage of the International Fund for Turkic Culture and Heritage, consisting of musicians from six Turkic-speaking countries. The orchestra toured the cities of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Finland.

June 26, 2019 – Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, two hundred musicians from the ASSO, the Azerbaijan State Choir Capella, the Batumi Choir Chapel, the Tbilisi Conservatory Choir and soloists from Italy, Germany, Russia and Azerbaijan performed G. Verdi's "Requiem".

February 2020 – Musical director of the production of the opera "Cinderella" by L. Vainshtein at the Moscow theater Helikon Opera (director I. Ilyin).

Y.Adigezalov – the first of the Azerbaijani musicians to represent the country's culture in concert halls all over the world; Musikverein, Barbican Centre, Berliner Philharmonie, Cadogan Hall, Central Hall Westminster Abbey, Konzerthaus Berlin, Arena di Verona, Smetana Hall Prague, Cidade Das Artes and Theater Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Linder Auditorium Johannesbur, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, as well as Riga Merchant Guild, in the opera halls of Beijing and Kuwait.

As a symphony conductor, has performed with such orchestras as: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), L'Orchestra Italiana del Cinema (OIC), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Chamber Orchestra, Filarmonica Brașov (Romania), Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Danube Symphony, Junge Philharmonie Köln, as well as – Russian National Orchestra (RNO), Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestras of Moscow, Riga, Yekaterinburg, Minsk, Chișinău, Kharkiv, Astana, İzmir, Liepāja, Adana, Bishkek, Ankara Presidential Symphony Orchestra. Tashkent, Lviv, Chișinău, Tbilisi, Astana, Odesa, Samsun.

With outstanding soloists, including Mstislav Rostropovich, N. Petrov, B. Berezovsky, F. Badalbeyli, H. Shaham, I. Monighetti, S. Stadler, D. Kogan, P. Yablonsky, I. Biret, G. Onay, R. Galliano, Al Bano and others.

For more than a quarter of a century, Professor Adigezalov has been teaching at the Baku Music Academy, Istanbul Opera Orchestra, Russian Radio and TV Orchestra, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, which were released in the US, Turkey, Russia, South Korea (SONY), Germany (NAXOS) and England (OLIMPIA). 2000 – with the State Symphony Orchestra of Radio – Television of Russia, CD P. Tchaikovsky – Francesca da Rimini; S. Rachmaninov – Symphony No.2. 2001 – the Istanbul Opera Orchestra, CD & DVD (full version) of the ballet "The Legend of Love" by A. Melikov. 2004 – Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, CD "Leonid Weinstein" -Symphony No.6, Concerto for violin and orchestra (soloist D. Kogan), Symphonietta for string orchestra. 2019 – National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine with soprano Seljan Nasibli. The album "Femmes Fatales" includes works by Bizet, Rimsky-Korsakov, Puccini, Shimanovsky, Barber. 2021 – Liepaja Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the "Trio Karabakh"; СD "Azerbaijani Symphonic Mughams" (Niyazi "Rast" and V. Adıgözəlov "Segah").

Awards 1993 – "Best Conductor of the Year" ("Humay" award) 2007 – Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan 2012 – People's Artist of Azerbaijan 2015 – Winner of the "Best Musician of the Year" ("Zirva" award) 2019 – Shohrat Order

Family Grandfather – Zulfugar (Zulfi) Samed Adigezalov (1898–1963), folk singer – "Khanende", a bright representative of the Karabakh School of mugham, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan. Father – Vasif Zulfugar Adigezalov (1935–2006), composer, pianist, public figure, teacher, one of the brightest students of Gara Garayev, first secretary of the Union of Composers, People's Artist of Azerbaijan, State Prize laureate, professor, holder of the "Şöhrət" "Istiqlal" orders. Mother – Khalida Aga-Ali Mammadbeyli, 1961 -2011 – teacher of the French language at the Azerbaijan Medical University. Brother – Togrul Vasif Adigezalov, resuscitator – anesthesiologist, candidate of medical sciences (I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University), PhD, a renowned organizer of public health. Uncle – Rauf Zulfugar Adigezalov (1940–2002), violinist (graduate of the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Professor D.M. Tsyganov), vocalist, professor, Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan.