Tamila Azadaliyeva - Pianist of the Arensky Piano Trio

Tamila Azadaliyeva was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she received her B.M. degree from Tashkent State Conservatory. She came to the United States in 2000 to study with Oxana Yablonskaya at the University of Hartford Hartt School, where she received her Graduate Professional Diploma in May, 2003 and then her Masters degree the following year, while studying with Luiz de Moura Castro.

Among her many awards are First Prize in the 2005 Connecticut State Young Artists' Piano Competition; Third Prize in the 2006 International New England Chamber Music Competition in Boston, Massachusetts (with Arensky Piano Trio); the Special Prize in the 2005 International Piano Forum's four-hand Piano Competition in Barcelona, Spain (with Jonathan Moyer); the McAuley Prize in the 2004 Connecticut State Music Teachers Association Competition and a Finalist's Diploma in the 2002 International Competition in Bologna, Italy. Tamila also is the recipient of the Elizabeth H. Walden Memorial Music Scholarship and the Evelyn Bonar Storrs Scholarship from the Musical Club of Hartford.

Tamila has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Italy, Spain, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. She has been guest soloist with several orchestras including the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 she performed in the Amalfi Festival in Italy and the International Piano Forum in Barcelona, Spain. She has played many solo recitals sponsored by the Musical Club of Hartford and Connecticut State Music Teachers Association. As a chamber musician she has performed in the Greater Waterbury Classic concert series with the Artemis Trio, Arensky Piano Trio and with Anatoly Bazhenov, the first violinist of the celebrated Lysenko Quartet.

Tamila Azadaliyeva teaches piano at the University of Hartford Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut.

Tamila can be contacted at tamila@tamilaazadaliyeva.com.