Elmir Mirzoev's short biography.

 Elmir MIRZOEV was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1970. He entered the Baku State Music Academy in 1989 studying compostion with Faraj Karaev, the son of Kara Karaev who is considered to be the Father of the Modern Azeri school of composition.In 1994, he participated in an international composition course, led by James Dillon and Ole Lützhow-Holm at the University of Gothenburg. After completing his studies, in 1995, he was named Artistic Director of the Initiative Center of Contemporary Music - Ensemble SoNoR, perhaps the most important promoting center of new music and collective ensemble for New Music in Azerbaijan.



Mirzoev's participation in the "Musik aus Aserbaidschan" Festival in Winterthur/Switzerland during 1995 lead to three commissions from the Swiss Pro Helvetica Cultural Foundation, (for TaG ensemble (7 musicians), for Jacquiline Ott, percussion & piano and for Christoph Jäggin, guitarist) and a series of invitation at International New Music Festivals, including the GIFT International Festival of Arts, Tbilisi/Georgia, the 5th International Young Composers Meeting, led by Louis Andriessen, Michael Smetanin and Ensemble de ereprijs in Apeldoorn/Holland, the "Asian Music Week" in Yogyakarta/Indonesia, the "Musica Nova" Festival of Contemporary Music in Sofia/Bulgaria, and the "New Music Marathon" with an hour-long concert and workshop in Prague/Czech Republic. Since 1998, he has served as Professor of Composition at the Baku State Music Academy. His works continue to be programmed in festivals such as the "Ilkhom XX" Contemporary Music Festival in Tashkent/Uzbekistan, "november music" Contemporary Music Festival in Germany, Holland and Belgium, the "Asian Music Week" in Yokohama/Japan, the "Silk Sound Road" Festival in Basel/Switzerland, the "2 day and 2 nights" Contemporary Art Festival in Odessa/Ukraine, III European Composers Informal Meeting in Baku/Azerbaijan and IV European Composers Informal Meeting in Krakow/Poland, the "Young. Euro. Classic." Festival in Berlin/Germany and the "Roaring Hoofs" Contemporary Music Festival in Mongolia. Peter Keuschnig and Roland Freisitzer (Austria), Dragomir Yossifov (Bulgaria), Einar Nielsen (Denmark), Bernhard Wulff (Germany), Wim Boerman (Holland), Fritz Voeglin (Switzerland), Volodymyr Runchak (Ukraine), among others, have conducted his music.


His works have been performed by SoNoR Ensemble of Baku, the Ensemble Musica Nova (Bulgaria), the TaG ensemble (Switzerland), Guitarist Christoph Jäggin, Percussionist Jacqueline Ott, Saxophonist Paul Wehage, the Ensemble De Ereprijs (Holland), the Sinfonieorchester Basel (Switzerland), the Trio Obscura (Sweden), the ALEA Ensemble (Macedonia), and the Göteborg University Ensemble (Sweden). and Freiburg Percussion Ensemble (Germany).

Эльмир Мирзоев, 

Elmir Mirzəyev

"cancion de cuna" (2001) Ensemble SoNoR, дирижер Володимир Рунчак, солистка Фарида Мамедова. Запись из Кonzerthaus, Berlin, 11.08.01