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Azerbaijani violinist to perform in London

23 April 2012 [11:35] - TODAY.AZ
Azerbaijani violinist Sabina Rakcheyeva will give a concert at the Leighton House in London.
The concert will be organized by the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

Member of the European Cultural Parliament, winner of “The Best Violinist of the Year” competition in Baku, first recipient of “Artist in Residence” Award from the Fund of Mutual Understanding in New York and a scholarship from Italian Ministry of Culture, violinist Sabina Rakcheyeva is first ever Azerbaijani to be accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.

She appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Azerbaijan, Europe and the United States, performed in more than forty countries and was featured on BBC, CNN, Voice of America Radio and US government television

Since 2000 Ms Rakcheyeva has regularly participated in the UBS Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland where she performed chamber music with Dmitri Sitkovetski and Michel Dalberto. She has also played in such prestigious festivals as Chamber Fest and Focus! Festival (New York, USA), Sarasota (Florida, USA), Jeunesses Musicales (Germany), Verbier (Switzerland), Menton (France), Salzburg (Austria), Tuscan Sun (Italy), Flanders (Belgium), Proms (Great Britain), Miyazaki (Japan), Beijing (China).



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