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Azerbaijani organ player
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Rana Ismayilova
Rəna İsmayılova
Background information
Born (1950-08-28) August 28, 1950 (age 74)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Occupationmusician
Instrumentorgan
Parent(s)Najafgulu Ismayilov
Gullu Mustafayeva
AwardsHonored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Musical artist

Rana Najafgulu gizi Ismayilova (Azerbaijani: Rəna Nəcəfqulu qızı İsmayılova, born August 27, 1950) is an organist and Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Biography

Rana Ismayilova was born on August 28, 1950, in Baku. Her first music teacher was her sister Zemfira Gafarova. After graduating from the Secondary Music School named after Bulbul with a degree in piano, in 1968 she entered the Faculty of history-theory of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. Starting from the first year of her education here, she began to play the organ along with the piano, and in the third year she changed her faculty and continued her activity on the piano. She graduated in 1974 with a degree in piano and organ. After graduating, she started working at the Musical Comedy Theater and Sumgayit Music College. Rana Ismayilova, who first worked as a pianist-concertmaster at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory since 1977, entered the assistantship of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1983 and continued her education here for 3 years. Here she took lessons from Professor Leonid Roisman.

For the first time since 1987, a two-volume collection of notes entitled "Organ music of Azerbaijani composers" was published under the editorship of Rana Ismayilova, who first worked as a senior teacher and then as an associate professor at the "Organ and harpsichord" department of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.

Rana Ismayilova currently lives in Germany. She has repeatedly given official concerts here and performed in churches. She was also the organizer and participant of German, Finnish, Norwegian, French, English music evenings, a series of concerts "Organ yesterday and today".

Awards

  • Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan – October 28, 2000

References

  1. "Когда гены не спят…" (in Russian). kaspiy.az. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "İfaçı gərək həmişə formada olsun" (in Azerbaijani). "Mədəniyyət" qəzeti. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  3. "Orqan musiqisinin mahir ifaçısı" (in Azerbaijani). "Mədəniyyət" qəzeti. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  4. "Azərbaycan Respublikasının mədəniyyət xadimlərinə fəxri adların verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin Fərmanı" (in Azerbaijani). e-qanun.az. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
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