Faraj Garayev
Birth date:
19 December 1943
Faraj Garayev was born in Baku.
He studied at the Composition Department of the Azerbaijan State Conservatory (1966, class of Gara Garayev).
He taught at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory (1966-2003). He was the artistic director of the Bakara ensemble (1980-1994). In 1991, he worked as a composer-in-residence at the Volkwang Hochschule Essen. He was the vice-president of the Association of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Moscow (1994-1996). Since 1995, he has been the president of the New Music Society in Baku. Since 1999, he has been a professor at the Theory Department of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He worked as a professor at the Composition Department of the Kazan Conservatory (2003-2005). Since 1991, he has lived intermittently in Baku and Moscow. He is the composer of the films “Goya” (1971, directed by Konrad Wolf / Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) and “The Interviewee” (1986, directed by Yuri Marukhin / Belarus) by foreign film producers.
Associate Professor (1982), Professor (1998), Laureate of the “Humay” Prize (1999), Honored Artist (1982), People's Artist (2018).
Composer Faraj Garayev is the son of composer Gara Garayev.
