(b. 1970, Baku).
Azerbaijani composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Mirzoev studied composition with Faraj Karayev at the Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası – Academy of Music in Baku from 1989–94, with whom he then had postgraduate studies in composition there from 1995–99. He also attended a course in composition by James Dillon and Ole Lützow-Holm at Göteborgs universitet – University of Gothenburg in 1994 and the International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn in 1999.
Among his honours is a term as artist-in-residence at the Villa Sträuli in Winterthur (2013). His music has been performed in Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, and Uzbekistan.
He is also active in other positions. He served as artistic director of the Initiative Centre of Contemporary Music – Ensemble SoNoR in Baku from 1995–2005. Moreover, he has organised international projects in Azerbaijan and elsewhere since 1996.
He has taught composition at the Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası since 1998. He taught as an assistant to York Höller at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne in 2007–08 and as an assistant at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar in 2010–11. He later taught as an assistant professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 2019–22. In addition, he has given lectures, masterclasses and workshops in the Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL:
A game with rosaries, large orchestra (79 players), 1996
Seven minutes for orchestra, large orchestra (78 players), 1999
Candentia II, piano (+ celesta, glockenspiel), 18 strings, 2005
Illumination, 2008
Die schwerfälligste ästhetische Erfahrung vom verschwundenen Lärm der Schönheit (symphony), violin, small orchestra, 2010
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Sacrificium intellectus, oboe, clarinet, French horn, qanun (zither from the Middle East), violin, viola, cello, piano, organ, 1992
Intra cancellos, flute (+ piccolo, alto flute), oboe, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, piccolo trumpet, 2 violins, viola, cello, piano, 2 percussion, 1994
Candentia I, flute (+ alto flute), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), guitar, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 1995
Symbolic Triangular Silence, bass clarinet (+ clarinet), guitar, piano, 1995
Short exercises for brain and hands, piano, percussion, 1996
Drei Reminiszenzen, guitar, 1997
ReAKSIYA, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, fixed media, 1998
Impromptu, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), 2 saxophones, 2 French horns, trumpet, 2 trombones, bass tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, percussion, 1999
Bahar, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, French horn, organ, percussion, 1999 (also version for bass flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello, percussion, 1999)
Visions and Echo, flute (+ alto flute), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2000
Symbolic Triangular Cross, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), viola, piano, 2001
White Circles, clarinet, violin, 2001
Chamber concerto, clarinet, ensemble (balaban [oboe from Azerbaijan], contrabassoon, trombone, harp, violin, viola, cello, percussion), 2001–02
Rituals, percussion ensemble, 2002–03
Faiyum Portraits I, bass flute, harp, cello, percussion, fixed media, 2004
Die Gestorbene Zeit des Idealismus, bass flute (+ flute), harp, cello, accordion, fixed media, 2006
Illusory perception of the destroyed world of anarchy, bass flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, fixed media, 2008
L'identification de la vengeance d'Eurydice (instrumental music-theatre work), bass flute (+ flute), 4 percussion, 2011
Die Vergänglichkeit der Zustände des Phönix-Mythos, bass clarinet, double bass, ensemble (flute, saxophone, trombone, accordion, violin, viola, cello), 2012
Le complexe de Caïn (instrumental music-theatre work), soprano, flute, contrabass clarinet, harp, cello, percussion, 2013
Allegoria Sacra, 2 players (with violin, prepared piano, glockenspiel, triangle, singing bowls), film, 2015
Epitaph, violin, cello, piano, fixed media, 2022
Die Krankengeschichte (instrumental theatre, after Irina Yasina), accordion, ensemble, live electronics, film, 2023
VOCAL:
...Also, Sie sind gekommen, soprano, bass clarinet (+ clarinet), guitar/cello, piano, percussion, 1997
JUStACRUM, soprano, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, trumpet, harp, qanun, cello, piano, percussion, 1998
Sarı Gelin, soprano, flute (+ alto flute), guitar, percussion, 2002
Four Songs, soprano, flute (+ alto flute), clarinet (+ bass clarinet, balaban), guitar, cello, piano, synthesizer, 2 percussion, fixed media, 2002
Todesfuge, 2 sopranos, 2 double basses (both + percussion), 2003
Faiyum Portraits II, soprano, English horn, theorbo, fixed media, 2005
Die Flucht aus der Zeit (texts by Hugo Ball, Alfred Meißner), soprano, 3 soli, ensemble, 2009
PIANO:
Five Styles, 2006
ORGAN:
In trance, 1991
FILM SCORES (DIRECTOR):
Black Room, 2006 (Nonna de Gubek)
Transcommunication: invasion of senses, 2012 (Teymur Daimi)
The WELL, 2021 (Rüfat Ray)
ARRANGEMENTS:
Seven Motets (Guillaume de Machaut), soprano, flute, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, guitar, cello, 1997
Prelude VII–Prelude VIII–Prelude XV–Prelude XVI–Prelude XXIV from 24 Preludes (Kara Karayev), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), harp, cello, percussion, 1998