Baku Academy of Music

The Baku Music Academy (actually Hacıbəyov Music Academy Baku Azerbaijani: Hacıbəyov Adina Baki Musiqi Akademiyası ) is a located in the Azerbaijani capital Baku Conservatory and is considered prestigious musical training center of Azerbaijan.

The Baku Music Academy has three faculties and 18 departments. It offers graduates training routes to the master, postgraduate, and doctorate degrees. Particularly renowned among the departments is the Oriental Department, which is responsible for research, storage, transmission, and interpretation in oral tradition musical traditions of Azerbaijani folk music.

The Music Academy also has a restoration workshop for musical instruments, especially for historical musical instruments, which operates since 1991.

History

The facility was the first Azerbaijani Conservatory founded by the People's Commissariat of Education of the Azerbaijan SSR on the request of the founder of the classical music of Azerbaijan and People's Artist of USSR, Üzeyir Hacıbəyov on May 25, 1920.

In 1939 Hacıbəyov was appointed Rector of the Music Academy and was there until his death in 1948, professor of music theory and harmony. There he founded the Oriental Department, where Azerbaijani folk music was both traditionally taught orally as well as by European methods with notes. In 1991, the Academy of Music was named after him.

Acting Rector since 1991, the pianist and composer Fərhad Bədəlbəyli.

Graduates

The musicians and composers who have visited the Baku Music Academy include:

• Fikrət Əmirov
• Sona Aslanova
• Polad Bülbüloğlu
• Qara Qarayev
• Tofig Guliyev
• Soltan Hacıbəyov
• Cövdət Hacıyev
• Vaqif Mustafazadə
• Müslüm Maqomayev
• Odon Pártos
• Kövkəb Səfərəliyeva
• Vladimir Schainsky
• Asəf Zeynalli
• Fərəc Qarayev
• Arif Mirzoyev
• Amina Figarova
• Leyla Əliyeva