DESCRIPTION

Date of Representation

15 October                             19:00

Jam Session                          22:00

Gasan Bagirov is a jazz musician, teacher, producer. He was born in St. Petersburg. He graduated with honors from Choral College Glinka at the Academic Chapel. He also graduated from the Music Mussorgsky (variety department), University of Culture and Arts. Laureate of the competition. Ellington, Fellow of the Union of Concert Figures of Russia. 

He performed at the Festival of the Peoples of the Caucasus in St. Petersburg. He took part in a concert dedicated to the memory of Vagif Mustafazadeh in the Igor Butman club in Moscow, as well as in a joint concert of Russian and Azerbaijani jazz musicians at the Moscow House of Music. He has letters of appreciation and diplomas for participation in special concerts and festivals. For the execution of the tracks "Beatles" was personally noted by Paul McCartney.

At the moment he is a soloist of the St. Petersburg Jazz Philharmonic, a regular partner and member of the ensemble of People's Artist of Russia, multi-instrumentalist David Goloshchekin. Teacher of the Department of Musicology at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture. In May 2018, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev awarded Gasan Baghirov the title of "Honored Artist of Azerbaijan".