Isfar Sarabski
Isfar Sarabski
Wed 20 Nov 2024
?Baku-born, award-winning pianist Sarabski has roots in the East, branches in the West and plays with universal soul.
Stunning audiences with music that is all of sensitive and stunning, classical and jazz, standards and self-penned, he is always on the move. Sarabski, always on a solid base – from Mustafazadeh back to Tchaikovsky – his playing always flows artistry and excitement.
Isfar Sarabski is an Azeri composer and pianist who first struck his international chord in jazz in 2009 winning the Montreal Festival piano competition aged just 19.
He is the great-grandson of Huseyngulu Sarabski, the celebrated Azerbaijani opera singer, actor and one of the founders of Eastern opera. In 2011 he formed the Isfar Sarabski Trio exploring the relationship between jazz and mugham, Azerbaijan’s traditional music.
Stunning audiences with music that is all of sensitive and stunning, classical and jazz, standards and self-penned, he is always on the move. Sarabski, always on a solid base – from Mustafazadeh back to Tchaikovsky – his playing always flows artistry and excitement.
Isfar Sarabski is an Azeri composer and pianist who first struck his international chord in jazz in 2009 winning the Montreal Festival piano competition aged just 19.
He is the great-grandson of Huseyngulu Sarabski, the celebrated Azerbaijani opera singer, actor and one of the founders of Eastern opera. In 2011 he formed the Isfar Sarabski Trio exploring the relationship between jazz and mugham, Azerbaijan’s traditional music.
