Azer Rzayev

Azer Rzayev was born in Baku.

He studied at the ten-year music school under the Azerbaijan State Conservatory, in 2 specialties at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory (1948-1953, violin, composition class, Boris Zeydman and A. Amitov's class).

He began his career in 1953 as a teacher of violin at the ten-year music school under the Azerbaijan State Conservatory. Until 1956, he worked as a concertmaster-accompanist, and from 1957, he linked his fate with the current Baku Academy of Music, where he worked as a teacher, senior teacher, associate professor, professor and head of the department until the end of his life. He was a teacher at the Bulbul Secondary Specialized Music School (1960–1970). He was a sound director at the Radio and Television Committee under the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan (1958-1960), artistic director at the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic named after Muslim Magomayev (1965), director of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (1972-1987). Since 1995, he has led the children's symphony orchestra he created at the Bulbul Secondary Specialized Music School. In his creative activity, he is a laureate and diploma winner of International and All-Union competitions, and was awarded the titles of laureate as both a composer and a performer at the I and II festivals of Azerbaijani youth.

His works include the "Baku-90" symphony (1990), a double concerto for violin, viola and symphony orchestra (1990), a sonatina for violin and piano (1990), a sonata for piano, violin and cello trio (1991), "Nocturne" for chamber orchestra (1993), "Cantilena" for cello and orchestra (1994), "Thought" and "Return" for tar and chamber orchestra (1995), "Young Performers' March" for symphony orchestra (1997), 6 preludes for piano (2000), a concerto for 3 violins and symphony orchestra (2000).

He is the author and host of the "In the World of Music" television series and the "Masters of Our Opera Stage" radio series (1990-1993), and the author of articles in periodicals (1990-2001).

Honored Artist (1972), People's Artist (1990), laureate of the "Shohrat" Order (2000), winner of the "Humay" Prize (2002), professor (1977) Azer Rzayev died in 2015 and was buried in the Second Alley of Honor.