Azer Zeynalov

Azer Zeynalabdin oghlu Zeynalov was born in Nakhchivan. In 1969, he moved to Baku with his family. He studied in the piano class of music school No. 12, in the drama directing department of Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts (1982-1989). He took his first steps as a singer... in 1990 on the stage of the Azerbaijan State Song Theater named after Rashid Behbudov. At the same time, he worked in Rafig Babayev's "Cangi" ensemble. He was selected as the laureate of the "Odlar yurdu Baku - 90" song contest. In 1992, he was admitted to the vocal department of the Baku Music Academy, and in 1994 to the vocal department of the Italian State Conservatory named after Agostino Steffani (Castelfranco Veneto). In 1996, he graduated as an opera singer and returned to Azerbaijan, where he completed his unfinished studies at the Baku Music Academy. Since 1996, he has been a soloist of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. He is a performer of lead roles, songs and romances, odes and oratorios in the classical operas of Europe and Azerbaijan. Since 2001, he has been teaching at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts as the head of the Vocal Department, and since 2015 as the head of the Musical Theater Actor Department. In 2015, in order to carry out the construction work of the newly established "National Vocal" department at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory, he was appointed as the head of this department on public grounds. Since 2016, he continues his teaching activities only at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory and heads the National Vocal Department. He is a professor (2013). He is the author of the textbook "Vocal Performance" (2012). He is the People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1998) and the Republic of Dagestan (2008). Music performer Azer Zeynalov is the son of poet Zeynal Vafa.

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Azar ZeynalovАзер Зейналов