Young violinist Elvin Hoxha at Carnegie Hall

Young violinist Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev will play at Carnegie Hall (in Weill Recital Hall) on 3 October 2015 (Saturday), at 8 p.m. during the “Express Yourself Through Music!” fundraising concert held for the musical needs of students with autism.

In the concert Hoxha will share the stage with Remington Howell (piano), Alexander Peskanov (piano) and David Bernard (conductor).

Be ready to be amazed by Hoxha's performance of Carmen Waxman, Beethoven 7th Violin Sonata and Massenet Meditation!



 

About Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev

Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev was born in Ankara into a family of musicians in 1997. He is the grandson of Prof. Server Ganiyev, the late Head of String Instruments Department in the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in Bilkent University (who was awarded the title of State Artist in Azerbaijan).
 

When he was 6 years old, Elvin was admitted to the Violin Department in the Music Preparatory Primary School of the Bilkent University with the first rank. In 2005, he became a member of Cihat Aşkın and Young Friends – CAKA. He was awarded the first prize in the international “Classical Culture Heritage” competition held in Moscow in 2006 and the first prize again in the Second Gulden Turalı Violin Competition in 2007 along with the “Turkish Composer Special Award”. In 2008, he was granted the Azerbaijani Presidential Scholarship and his name was included in the Golden Book of Azerbaijan. He won the second prize in the International Lipinski-Wieniawski Young Violinist Competition held in Poland in 2009. His awards also include the “The New Young Musician of the Year (Under 17 Years)” of the Andante 2010 Classical Music Awards, the first prize in the Second International “Noche en Madrid” Festival Competition held in March 2012, and two special awards in the Seventh International Tchaikovsky Young Musicians Competition held in Switzerland in September 2012. He won the third prize in the Fifth Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition in September 2013.
 

Elvin worked with renowned conductors including Rauf Abdullayev, Gürer Aykal, Yuri Bashmet, Erol Erdinç, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Server Ganiyev, Sascha Goetzel, Rengim Gökmen, Murat Kodallı, Işın Metin, Naci Özgüç, Vladimir Spivakov, Valery Vorona, and Klaus Weise. He received favorable mentions from legendary conductors like Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky who listened to Elvin’s performance and considered him to hold promise for the future.

Elvin performed with many orchestras and ensembles among which are the Bilkent Symphony, Presidential Symphony, Istanbul, Bursa, Antalya, Eskişehir and İzmir State Symphony Orchestras, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, Hacettepe Symphony, Azerbaijani Philharmonic, Qatar Philharmonic, Odessa Philharmonic Orchestras, Bilkent Chamber Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Russian Virtuosi, Bron Chamber Orchestra, Burgogne Lyric Orchestra, and Doğuş Kids Symphony Orchestra.

He performed on the same stage with masters like Zakhar Bron, Server Ganiyev, Viktor Pikayzen, Vadim Repin, Güher ve Süher Pekinel, Gülsin Onay, Cihat Aşkın and Fazıl Say. Playing the violin in a number of international festivals in İstanbul, Mersin, Spivakov (Russia), Rostropovich (Azernaijan), Oetingen (Germany), Graubünden, Zurich and Interlaken (Switzerland), Chestashova (Poland), "Voices of Peace" (French), Chalkidikis ve Salonika (Greece), he also gave concerts and recitals in England, Belgium, Czech Republic, Norway, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Italy, and Egypt.
 

Elvin is supported as one of the selected young musicians in the Young Talents on the World Stage Project launched by Güher and Süher Pekinel in 2010. In the context of this project, Elvin performed in many concerts organized in a number of cities. In 2012, he played the violin with Bron Chamber Orchestra and Zakhar Bron in the Hacıbeyov Festival held in Azerbaijan and with Moscow Virtuosi under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov in the Closing Concert. He performed the Violin Concerto of Sibelius with Azerbaijani Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rauf Abdullayev in the Opening Concert of Rostropovich Festival in December 2012. He played the Violin Concerto No. 1 of Paganini with Bilkent Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Işın Metin in May 2013. He also gave a recital in Sureyya Opera House. After perfoming in the Closing Concert of Spivakov Festival in Moscow in 2013, he played as the soloist of the Azerbaijani Philharmonic Orchestra in Cannes Music Festival. He participated in the festival organized by Liana Isakadze in Georgia. His most recent highlights include his performance with Bron Chamber Orchestra in Zurich Tonhalle in 2014. Besides playing in Interlaken Classics, Cannes, Greece (Megaron), Floreal Epinal and Gabala Music Festivals, he gave recitals in Munich. Performing with Berlin Philharmonic in March 2015, he also played with Vladimir Azhkenazy and Esther Yoo at the Interlaken Classics Festival in Switzerland. When he participated in Zubin Mehta’s concert audition, Mehta commented that the artist held promise to have a brilliant career and stated that he would invite the young violinist to one of his concerts next year. Elvin went on stage with Vadim Repin in a concert bringing the stars of four generations together at Trans Siberian Art Festival. He performed as a soloist in the closing concert of Ankara Music festival and a concert of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra. Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev will give a concert at Carnegie Hall on October 3, 2015.
 

Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev who started playing the violin with Prof. Server Ganiyev is currently studying under Elena Postnova in grade 12 of Bilkent University Music and Performing Arts High School. He is also studying under Prof. Zakhar Bron as a “young student” at Zurich Conservatory.