Teymur Mirzoyev

Teymur Mirzoyev was born in 1936 in Aghdam. He graduated from the choir-conductor faculty of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. In 1961, he created the Gaya Quartet became the artistic director and soloist of the ensemble. The Gaya ensemble, a laureate of All-Union and International competitions, was one of the well-known collectives in the territory of the USSR and many foreign countries.^[1]

Together with the collective, he toured in Germany, Austria, America, Turkey, India, Africa, Czechoslovakia, Israel, Canada, Georgia, and Ukraine.^[2]

Teymur Mirzoyev, who lived in Israel for a long time, died on 27 September 2021, at the age of 85.^[3]

• People's Artiste of Azerbaijan — 23 January 1993^[4]
• Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR — 11 January 1978^[5]