(b Tashkent, 10 Aug 1952). Uzbek dutār player. From 1972 to 1977 he studied with Fakhriddin Sadyqov at the Tashkent State Conservatory and absorbed the traditions of the Fergana, Tashkent and Khorezm schools of dutār playing. He founded the makom instrumental ensemble at the Tashkent State Conservatory and developed the practice of ensemble performance of the makom repertory on instruments including the nay, the ghidjak, the chang, the rubāb, the dutār, the qoshnay, the doira and the tanbūr. His dutār playing displays mastery of several techniques of ornamentation including kochirim (melisma), tolkinlatish (vibrato), molish (long glissando from one tone to the next) and kashish (short glissando of a half-tone or a tone). He has written two books about Uzbek music.
and other resources
Asie Centrale: les maîtres du dotar, AIMP VDE-735 (1993)
A. Hamidov: Uzbek an’anavyi ijrochiligi hrestomatiyasy (Tashkent, 1995)
Ouzbekistan: l’art du dotar, Ocora C 560111 (1997)
A. Hamidov: Shashmaqom saflazi (Tashkent, 1999)
Music of Past Uzbek Empires, UNESCO (forthcoming)
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