Alim Qasimov

Alim Qasimov ( Azerbaijani Alim Qasımov, born 1957 in Şamaxı ) is an Azerbaijani mugham singer of the internationally best-known representatives of this classic style.

Qasımov sang mugham since his childhood, but worked until his nineteenth year in agriculture and as a truck driver before embarking on a professional music career. He studied from 1978 to 1982 at the Asaf Zeynalli music college and then to 1989 at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. His teacher was the mugham singer Aghakhan Abdullayev. During this time he also learned the folk style of Aşık bard.

In 1988 he won first prize at the International Competition and Symposium on Traditional Music in Samarkand. He appeared in the Heydar Aliyev Palace and the Azerbaijan Philharmonic Concert Hall and was from 1989 soloist at the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater. He was awarded the IMC -UNESCO Music Prize in 1999. He received the highest artistic award in Azerbaijan as an artist of the people and as a Living National Treasure.

The typical instrumental accompaniment during Mugham is tar from the frame drum Gaval, the long-necked lute and the sting fiddle Kamancheh. The long-standing core cast of Alim Qasımovs group consists of brothers Malik Mansurov ( tar) and Elshan Mansurov ( Kamancheh ). Occasionally, balaban nor the short oboe, the tütäc flute, a clarinet ( klärnet ) or the doubt that time frame drum added Nagara.

He took in Europe and the U.S. on 12 albums, including 1999 Love's Deep Ocean with his daughter, Ferghana Qasimova. He also works with Yo- Yo Ma Silk Road Ensemble and the Kronos Quartet.

Discography

  • Classical Mugham, 1992
  • Azerbaijan: Art of the Mugham, 1996
  • Legendary Art of Mugham, 1997
  • Love's Deep Ocean, 1999 ( with Rauf Islamov, Natiq Şirinov, Ferghana Qasimova )
  • Central Asian Series, Vol 6: Spiritual Music of Azerbaijan, 2005 ( with Rafael Asgarov, Rauf Islamov, Ali Asgar Mammadov, Fargana Qasimova )
  • Music Of Central Asia Vol 8: Rainbow, 2009 ( with Rafael Asgarov, Hank Dutt, Rauf Islamov, Abbo Kosimov, Ali Asgar Mammadov, Salar Nader, Fargana Qasimova, John Sherba, Jeffrey Zeigler, compositions and lyrics of Shafiqa Akhundova, Jafar Jabbarli, Jahangir Jahangirov, Mammad cream, Said Rustanov, Homayun Sakhi )
  • Intimate Dialogue. Live at Tomorrow Festival Osnabrück, 2010
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