Yalchin Adigezalov

Yalchin Vasif oghlu Adigezalov (Yalçın Vasif oğlu Adıgözəlov) is Azerbaijani conductor and teacher.

People's Artist of Azerbaijan.

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.

Yalchin Adigezalov was born on November 4, 1959, in Baku in the family of the composer Vasif Adigozalov.

A representative of the third generation of a famous musical dynasty.

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

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

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

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

From 1989 – conductor, 1991 to 1998 – Artistic director and chief conductor of the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra (ASSO) named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

In the difficult socio-political years in the country, in the conditions of the economic crisis, the young conductor made an priceless contribution to the preservation of the leading orchestra of the republic.

Y. Adigezalov conducted at home and abroad, having carried out numerous Baku premieres of the classical repertoire and actively promoted the works of Azerbaijani composers in the world.

1990 – 1992 was the first representative of Azerbaijan to study at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Wien – Musikhochschule, Professor Karl Esterreicher).

January 20, 1991 (on the anniversary of the tragic events in Baku) ASSO and the Azerbaijan Choir Capella performed the Oratorio "Karabakh Shikestesi" by V. Adigozalov and "Stabat Mater" by A. Karamanov in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in the presence of the authors.

March 1991, the orchestra toured the cities of the Far East (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Magadan) and Central Asia (1992).

1991–1993 – conductor was the artistic director of "MOZART-festivals" held jointly with the Austrian government.

World premieres of works of Azerbaijani and Austrian composers took place at three festivals.

1993 – First laureate in the category "Best Conductor of the Year" (Humay Award).

1994 – Made the first independent tour of the ASSO abroad – the orchestra opened the season with two concerts in the Istanbul Concert Hall "Jamal Rashit Rey" and performed in the antique Aspendos Amphitheater in Antalya in the presence of 7 thousand listeners.

During his period of the leadership of the orchestra, performed over 40 world premieres and over 50 author's concerts of Azerbaijani composers.

October 16, 1998 – Ankara, the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, the world premiere of the Oratorio "Chanakkale 1915" by V. Adigezalov, performed by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and in the presence of President S. Demirel, which became an event in the cultural life of the Turkic world.

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

From 2000 – conductor of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater ("The Magic Flute", "Aida", "La bohème", "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.).

2001 – 2004 – conductor of the Istanbul State Opera ("The Legend of Love", "Samson and Delilah", "Madama Butterfly", "Don Quixote", "Requiem").

"Prince Igor" opera by Borodin (director D. Bertman) was a huge success.

From 2002, Adigezalov has been working closely with the Moscow Helikon Opera ("The Pretend Garden-Girl", "La Traviata", "Carmen", "Eugene Onegin", "Fledermaus", "The Queen of Spades", "Cinderella", etc.).

This performance opened the International Opera Festival at the Aspendos Amphitheater in 2003.

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.

"The interpretation of maestro Adigezalov was beyond praise. Azerbaijani conductor led the Della Camerata Polifonica Siciliana choir and orchestra with exhilarating simplicity, confidently drawing the musicians along with him. Reading the rich score was significant and highly emotional."

"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."

"A high-class conductor who took up the challenge and won."

February 2013 – ASSO made a successful tour in Kuwait.

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".