Conductor

Ayyub Guliyev

He has collaborated with the best orchestras in the world, including Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Trondheim Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Toscanini Philharmonic and St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, as well as opera ensembles Mariinsky Theatre, Belarus Bolshoi Theatre, Belgrade National Opera and Kyiv State Opera. Maestro Guliyev has also been the artistic director and chief conductor of the National Opera in Baku (Azerbaijan) since 2011. He took up this position a year after his enthusiastically received debut at Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Guliyev has been recognised in numerous conducting competitions, such as the Arturo Toscanini International Conducting Competition in Parma (2011), where he received the first prize. He is also a laureate of the Witold Lutosławski Competition for Young Conductors in Białystok and the International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition for Conductors.

In the 2020/21 season, he conducted the highly successful premiere of Eldar Aliev's ballet "A Thousand And One Nights" at the Mariinsky Theatre and Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty". He has also conducted such monumental operas as "La Boheme" and "Tosca" by Puccini, "Troubadour", "Aida", "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" by Verdi, and the ballets of Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker".

He also collaborated with the World Chamber Orchestra during the Vancouver International Film Festival (Sound Landscapes).