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VALID AĞAYEV

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Born in 1983, Conductor Valid Ağayev is originally from Baku, Azerbaijan

Valid Ağayev attended a specialised music school, and then studied violin at the State Music Academy in Baku and earned a Bachelor of Music cum laude in 2006. In 2008, he achieved Master of Music 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. Sitkovetsky and M. Vengerov. From 2004 to 2010, Valid Ağayev was a leading violinist and a soloist of the "Gara Garayev" Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra. 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

Sergei Dogadin, Oleksiy Semenenko, Gerhard Vielhaber, Shengzhi Guo, Emilie Jaulmes.
At the end of 2016, he successfully passed his final conducting exam with honours. As part of his studies, he regularly led the Philharmonic Südwestfalen in Cologne and other cities in Germany.

Since 2017, Valid Ağayev was invited regularly as a guest conductor to different types of concerts with the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia. In April 2017, he flew to Madrid on short notice to perform with the orchestra for the first time, and then later in May to perform at the scene of Auditorio Nacional de Música.

In November 2017 he shared the stage with the Orpheus Public Award winner, pianist Nikolai Tokarev and the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra in Kiel.

In December 2019, Valid Ağayev worked very successfully with the world famous violinist Shlomo Mintz and "Academy of Soloists of Kazakhstan" in Nur-Sultan.

Valid Ağayev also successfully performed with the Collegium Musicum Orchestra in Lviv, Ukraine, as well as visited Minsk to lead the Amadeus Project Orchestra.

Since 01.01.2021 Mr. Ağayev works as Associate Professor in Çukurova State Conservatory in Adana, Turkey and continues to perform as a guest conductor in Europe and Asia.

"Music that comes from the soul hears the universe."

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Resume of Musician

Music career development

August 2011 -

Ağayev - Conductor

In 2011, he began his conducting career with the Master Course and then in the class of Professor Michael Luig at the Cologne Highschool of Music. Next were master courses with the eminent Conductors like Jorma Panula,

Dmitry Kitaenko and Aleksey Stepanov. Agayev made his final examination with honors already in the class of Professor Alexander Rumpf. He is conducting such an Orchestras as

Ukrainian National Orchestra, Philarmonie Südwestfallen, Classica Santa Cicilia, Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra,

Collegium Musicum Lviv, etc.

He performs and stays in friendly contact with such a famous musicians as Shlomo Mintz, Sergey Dogadin, Nikolai Tokarev, Gerhard Filhaber, Aleksey Semeneko, Shengzhi Guo and others...

November 2013 -

Rhein Sinfonietta Köln

In 2013, Ağayev created his new orchetra "RheinSinfonietta Köln", which ıs successfully performıng in several cities in Germany. Great hopes and faith in a rich creative future are entrusted to this orchestra!

February 2004 - September 2019

Agayev - Violinist

In 2002 he entered the Baku Academy of Music in a class of violin teacher, professor Atakishiyev. During his studies, he took master classes from Mstislav Rastropovich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Maxim Vengerov and Vladimir Spivakov. From 2004 to 2010, Ağayev was a soloist of the State Chamber Orchestra named after Qara Qarayev. He was subsequently the Concertmeister of the MLW orchestra,

Junge Philarmonie Köln and the New Philharmonic Orchestra Cologne.

September 2014 -