Isfar Sarabski to perform in Belgium

Jazz pianist, recipient of Presidential scholarship Isfar Sarabski will give a concert organized by the European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS) in Brussels, Belgium on January 31. The concert will be attended by the Belgium society, Azerbaijani and Turkish Diasporas. Isfar Sarabski will perform music pieces by classic Azeri and foreign composers, as well as his own ones in the concert.

Isfar Rzayev (born November 2, 1989, Baku), better known as Isfar Sarabski, is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist. He is the great-grandson of opera singer Huseyngulu Sarabski. He began playing the piano at the age of seven. He studied classic piano for eleven years at the Bulbul Music School.

Sarabski has performed at Baku Caspian Jazz and Blues Festival in Azerbaijan several times, participated in the annual Sildajazz festival in Norway, as well as at the International Jazz Festival in Russia. He has also been awarded at Stars of Issyk-kul; New names of Russia International Classical and National Music Festival in Kyrgyzstan in 2004. Early influences included Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. His favorite performers Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, and Vagif Mustafazadeh have inspired him to compose his own pieces.

On July 18, 2009 Isfar became a winner at the 43rd Jazz Festival held in Montreux, Switzerland. Isfar Sarabski, whose name was included into the golden book of talented Azerbaijani youth. He was also admitted to the Berklee College of Music of the United States.


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