Meet Fuad Ibrahimov: The maestro behind the success of the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra
Fuad Ibrahimov, General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, shares his profound connection with Shusha, a city rich in cultural heritage and influential in his musical journey.
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00:00I have a lot of concerts abroad, in Europe, in USA, in Asia, many beautiful concert halls,
00:09great orchestras and so on.
00:11But one thing is not possible to repeat, is the concert in 2021, Arribes Vu Festival,
00:20on Jeux d'Or des Jeux.
00:22This day my dream came true.
00:30Shosha has a great history of culture, a lot of poets, musicians.
00:35Our greatest composer, Uzair Haji Bailey, is from Shosha.
00:40Also my first steps in music started from here.
00:44All the family were going to the Arribes Vu Festival and I got a great present from a
00:50great Azerbaijani composer, Suleyman Alaskerov, it was a violin.
00:55With this violin I went to the streets every day to the music school and to our home and
01:03then suddenly started the refugee days of our life.
01:12During the war we were evacuated with a helicopter.
01:16All the things, of course, remained in our house and also this violin.
01:24I'm so happy that my mother didn't give up, she saw that I have a big love and connection
01:30to the music.
01:31I got a big support from the government, from the Hedaya Foundation.
01:37I never could imagine that I was studying in Germany, never, and I never could imagine
01:44that I would be an artist of this festival, I would be conducting on this festival.
01:50This is an international festival, many cultures and music are presented on this festival and
01:56it's extremely important for the cultural life of Shosha.
02:01It's so great that Shosha got the capital of youth, language, art, music, where could
02:09it be the best place to bring them all together.
02:14This is Shosha.
02:16The best advice which I could give the young people, love the things which you are doing.
02:25Be honest to this thing.
02:26I was dreaming to conduct Azerbaijan Capriccio by Fikret Amirov on Jederdizir and it happened.
02:35I never could imagine that I would be honored artist of Azerbaijan.
02:39I would never imagine that I would be the general music director and chief conductor
02:44of the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra and I'm so happy for that and I'm so extremely
02:49grateful to be born in Shosha in this great place.