Yegana Akhundova

Yegana Akhundova (; born May 22, 1960, Sheki, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani pianist, composer, and teacher. She has held the title of People’s Artist of Azerbaijan since 2012. Biography Yegana Akhundova was born on May 22, 1960, in Sheki, Azerbaijan. In 1983 she graduated from the Azerbaijan National Conservatory named after U.Hajibeyov (N.Usubova’s class) and, in 1985, completed her on-job training under the guidance of professor Lev Naumov in Moscow State Conservatory. There are different music styles and epochs in the repertoire of Yegana Akhundova: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Rakhmaninov, Shostakovich and others including the works of the Azerbaijanian composers Uzeyir Hajibeyli, Gara Garayev, Fikrat Amirov, Jeyhun Hajibeyli, and Arif Malikov. Yegana Akhundova has numerous concert tours abroad; she played in Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Turkey, France, Austria, Poland, Great Britain, Russia, Spain, Hungary, Morocco, and Romania. She performed with the Budapest’s “Duna Palota” (Hungary) and UK Royal Filarmonic Orchestras as well as the Istanbul, Israel, Johannesburg, and Vienna Chamber Orchestras in collaboration with the famous conduc