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Ayyub Guliyev
Conductor
Ayyub Guliyev holds the position of the Principal Conductor at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre since 2011 and Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra since 2025. He is a winner of the Arturo Toscanini International Competition of Conductors in Parma, Italy, and has also won first prizes at the Witold Lutosławski Competition for Young Conductors in Poland, Romania International Conducting Competition and the Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in Athens.
Guliyev has led concerts with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wiener Kammerorchester, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Toscanini Philharmonic, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Athens Orchestra, the Trondheim Orchestra, the Lamoureux Symphony Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Astana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bishkek Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, the Turkey Presidential Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuania Symphony Orchestra, the “Hamburg Klassik” Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic, the “Óbudai Danubia” Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), the Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova, Orquestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro, Orquestra Simfônica do Theatro da Paz, among others.
In opera and ballet productions, he has conducted at the China National Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Opera House of Muscat in Oman, the Wrocław Opera, the Novi Sad National Opera Theatre, the Bucharest National Opera Theatre, Latvian National Opera, Kyiv State Opera, Sofia National Opera Theatre, Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre among others.
One of the most decorated Azerbaijani conductors of his generation, Ayyub Guliyev was recently awarded the Golden Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit and holds multiple national awards and titles, including the Azerbaijan Foundation “Friends of the Culture” “Best Musician of the Year” Award, the Best Achievement of the Year 2019 Award, the title of Honorary Art Worker of the Azerbaijan Republic (2017), and the annual Presidential State Prize for musicians. Ayyub Guliyev is currently the Associate Professor of the Conducting Department of the Music Academy in Baku.
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