BIOGRAPHY

Principal conductor of New Philharmonic Orchestra of Munich
Principal conductor of Baku Chamber Orchestra

Fuad Ibrahimov is the chief conductor of the Neue Philharmonie München. In 2024, he is appointed music director of the State Symphony Orchestra of Azerbaijan.

Fuad Ibrahimov was the 2nd prize winner of the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Paris in 2018 where he appeared with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He was immediately invited to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo for a concert with Nikolai Lugansky. In 2019, he conducted the Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer on tour of the Baltic states and at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest. The same season, he performed with the Sinfonia Varsovia at the Folle Journée de Nantes Festival and in Tokyo, and conducted a special gala concert of Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in Minsk. Following a broader recognition of his talent, Fuad Ibrahimov was invited, in December 2021, to close the Rostropovich Festival in Moscow alongside the Russian State Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov” and Gautier Capuçon. In October 2023, he conducted the Bordeaux National Orchestra and Evgeny Kissin in Bordeaux. The upcoming season includes invitations to Montpellier Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Recreation Orchestra Graz, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra or Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse…

Fuad Ibrahimov performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (England), North Czech Philharmonic, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Göttingen and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, Kremerata Baltica, Kronberg Academy, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He also conducted the « Das kritische Orchester Berlin®” whose musicians are selected from the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, the South Westphalian Philharmonic (Germany), and other leading orchestras. In 2012 he took over his first independent opera production with the Gürzenich Orchestra (Germany) at the Cologne Opera as a guest conductor. In June 2011, he was invited by Maestro Fabio Luisi to the “Pacific Music Festival” in Japan.

In 2006 Ibrahimov began his conducting studies with Prof. Michael Luig at the Cologne Academy of Music, and from 2008 he was music director of the student symphony orchestra “Sinfonietta”, based in Cologne. In 2010 he was awarded a special prize by DAAD, recognising highly talented foreign students.

In 1998 he joined the viola class of Prof. B. Mehdiyev at the Baku Music Academy, while simultaneously enrolling at the Cologne Academy of Music (Germany) under Prof. Rainer Moog. During this time, Ibrahimov was awarded a scholarship by the “Friends of Azerbaijan Culture” Foundation, as well as the Dr. Carl Dörcken-Werner Richard Scholarship, and performed in many German cities under the auspices of the Yehudi Menuhin Charitable Foundation. In 2019, he won the “Golden Plane” prize awarded for culture by the First Lady of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Fuad Ibrahimov began his music studies at the age of 12, when he attended the specialized music school associated with the Baku Music Academy, Azerbaijan. There he enrolled in the class of Prof. Tofig Aslanov (1994-1998), and later was a member of the youth string orchestra, “Tutti”, conducted by Teymur Geokchayev.