Jahangir Garayev

Jahangir Garayev was born in Baku.

He studied at the Bulbul Secondary Specialized Music School (1957-1968, Lydia Filatova's piano class), the Azerbaijan State Conservatory (1968–1973, Major Brenner's piano class), and the Azerbaijan State Conservatory's postgraduate school (1973–1975, Rauf Atakishiyev's class).

Since 1973, he has been teaching at the Piano Department of the Conservatory. He was sent on a business trip to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, where he worked as a teacher and performer (1981–1984). During his studies, he began his composing career. He is the author of the series of piano pieces "Sonata for Piano", "Moments and Impulses" consisting of 12 preludes, "Negatives", preludes, jazz compositions, as well as arrangements for a number of folk songs. He was the first performer of numerous modern-style works for piano by foreign and Azerbaijani composers. In the 1970s, he created the jazz-rock group "Jurbajur". He participated in the "Musical Tribune of Asian and African Countries" (1973, Almaty), the "Transcaucasian Spring" festival (1975, Tbilisi) and many concerts.

Jahangir Garayev died in 2013.