Firangiz Alizadeh

Firangiz Alizadeh was born 28 may in 1947 in Baku, Azerbaijan. She studied the piano and composition at the Baku Conservatory, from which she graduated as a pianist in 1970, and as a composer in 1972. 

From 1973-1976 she was Gara Garaev’s research assistant, and in 1989 completed her doctoral thesis, “Orchestration in Works by Azerbaijani Composers”. In 1976 she began to teach musicology at the Baku Conservatory, where she has been professor of Contemporary Music and the History of Orchestral Styles since 1990.

From 1993 to 1996 she conducted the choir of the opera house in Mersin, Turkey, and subsequently taught the piano and music theory for two years at the Mersin Conservatory. In 1998-1999 Firangiz Alizadeh worked again in Baku. Since then she has lived primarily in Germany.

 In 1980 Firangiz Alizadeh received the annual award of the Azerbaijani Composers’ Union, and in 1990 was accorded the title of “Outstanding Artist“ by the Azerbaijan USSR. 

In 1989 she became a member of the Friends of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles, and in November 2000 she received the honorary title “People Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan”.