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World-famous conductor and cellist Dmitry Yablonsky decided to live in Azerbaijan

18 August 2009 14:28 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ulkar Gasimova â€“ APA. World-famous conductor and cellist Dmitry Yablonsky will move to Azerbaijan, rector of Baku Music Academy Farhad Badalbayli told APA. He said Dmitry Yablonsky, who is participating in the International Music Festival in Gabala, made up his mind.
â€œDmitry Yablonsky is a very famous musician and often comes to Azerbaijan. During this visit he decided to move to Azerbaijan. He is going to buy a flat in Azerbaijan,â€ he said.

Dmitry Yablonsky was born into a family of musicians in Moscow in 1962. His mother, Oxana Yablonskaya, is an internationally renowned pianist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and his father is a solo oboist in the Radio and Television Orchestra in Moscow. At the age of six, young Dmitry was accepted into the Moscow Central Music School for gifted children and, at the age of 9, he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn’s Concerto in C Major for violoncello. In 1977 Dmitry Yablonsky immigrated to the United States, to continue his studies at the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute and further educational studies at Yale University. As soloist he has performed all over the world in halls as: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Hall, La Scala, Halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Taiwan National Hall.