Azerbaijani young pianist performs at Van Cliburn memorial concert
Baku, April 2 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijani young piano player Zakir Asadov has presented a solo performance during a concert commemorating legendary American classical pianist Van Cliburn at the Uzeyir Hajibeyov Baku Academy of Music.
Asadov improvised compositions by world classical composers including Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev, A. Webern and Rakhmaninov.
A graduate from the Bulbul Secondary Special Musical School, Zakir Asadov is a laureate of several competitions, including Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and Republican Music Competition. He is also a prize winner of the Italian Music Competition.
Van Cliburn was an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958 at the age of 23, when he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
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