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Jazzman Elchin Shirinov to join int’l festival

02 July 2015 [17:51] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Laman Sadigova

Azerbaijani jazzman Elchin Shirinov will participate in the International Different Sounds Art'n'Music festival that will be held in Poland.

The "Different Sounds" Festival is an art project aimed at music aficionados and enthusiasts of all related arts. Renowned for its quality and scope, it is a cyclic art event happening in Lublin since 2008. With time, Lublin's flagship Festival has become a truly international phenomenon.

Mirek Olszówka was the originator and director of the Festival. His beneficiaries alongside the City of Lublin as well as the closest coworkers of the late founder decided to continue organizing the Festival in years to come. In 2013, The Workshops of Culture was appointed the official organizer of the Festival.

Elchin Shirinov was born in Baku in 1982. The artist does not have any musician education, but he took lessons from such great jazz pianists such as Vagif Sadikhov, Aaron Goldberg, Kevin Hayes and Yakov Okun.

In 2009 he took part in the 6th Festival of Baku drummers.

He participated in various festivals in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Malaysia. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he participated in the Baku Jazz Festival with his band "Elchin Shirinov Trio."

In 2010 and 2013 he performed at jazz festivals in Poland.

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