Valid
Ağayev Azerbaijan/Turkey
Aizhan
Bekenova Kazakhstan
Yernazar
Gimarat Kazakhstan
Jury
Valid
Aizhan
Yernazar
PhD, Associate Professor, and Dean of the Faculty of Instrumental Performance at Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory. Recognized as an “Excellence in Culture of Kazakhstan” awardee.
Pianist, General Director of the International Creative Organization “Art Forum of Kazakhstan,” and member of the Union of Musical Figures of Kazakhstan. He is a laureate of international and national competitions, a recipient of the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation Scholarship, the Order of “Friendship of Peoples” by O. Suleimenov, and the State Grant “Independence Generation.” Additionally, he holds a Master’s degree in Art Studies and teaches at the Republican Kazakh Specialized Music Boarding School for Gifted Children named after A. Zhubanov.
Associate Professor at the Violin Department of the Kazakh National University of Arts, honored with the “Excellence in Culture of Kazakhstan” award.
Born in 1983, Conductor Valid Ağayev is originally from Baku, Azerbaijan.
Valid Ağayev attended a Secondary Special Music School, and then studied violin at the Baku State Academy and earned a Bachelor of Music cum laude in 2006. In 2008 he achieved Master of Music and in 2010 Postgraduate also with honours.
During his studies as a violinist in Azerbaijan, Valid Ağayev took the opportunity to take master classes with world famous musicians, as M. Rostropovich, D. Sitkovetski and M. Vengerov.
From 2004 to 2010, Valid Ağayev was a leading violinist and a soloist of the State Chamber Orchestra named after Qara Qarayev. As part of this activity, he led concert tours to Germany, France, USA, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, Russia and Ukraine.
From 2012 to 2017 Valid Ağayev studied conducting at the High School of Music and Dance in Cologne; first with Professor Michael Luig and later on with Professor Alexander Rumpf.
Since January 2014 until July 2020, Valid Ağayev has been working as a Conductor and Artistic Director of the Attendorn Chamber Orchestra. In this capacity, on numerous occasions he attracted exceptional soloists such as Sergey Doqadin, Aleksey Semenenko, Gerhard Vielhaber, Shengzhi Guo, Emilie Jaulmes to the Attendorn city.
At the end of 2016, he successfully passed his final conducting exam with honours.
