Farhad Badalbeyli

Biography

Farhad Shamsi oglu Badalbeyli (Azerbaijani: Fərhad Bədəlbəyli) (born in Baku, 1947) is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer.

Badalbeyli, a People's Artist of the USSR (1990), won in 1968, ex-aequo with Viktoria Postnikova, the 4th edition of Lisbon' Vianna da Motta International Music Competition. Since 1991 he is the rector of the Baku Academy of Music, where he has taught since 1971.

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