EDUCATION
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Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam & Royal Conservatory The Hague
Masters of Music in Music, Piano Soloist 1984 - 1991
The Hague, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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University of Amsterdam
Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language and Literature 2002 - 2006
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cum Laude Grade Point Average
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University of Amsterdam
Masters of Arts in Eastern European Studies (Stalinism, Political Islamism, European Intergration, Eastern Europe and Russia, Between Dictatorship and Democracy)

University of Amsterdam
PhD-Candidate: The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies and Azerbaijani Nationalism 2006 - 2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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FIELD WORK • 2004 Russian Studies, St. Petersburg University, 2005 (summer)
• 2005 Teaching English, Russian and music in orphanage, work with internally displaced persons from Nagorny Karabakh, Baku
• 2005 Study Trip Georgia en Azerbaijan
• 2007 Study Turkish, EF-Institute, Istanbul
• 2008 Study 'Islam in Foreign Affairs' Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku
• 2008 Participation Worldcongress of the Azerbaijan Diaspora, Cologne
• 2009-2013 Research trips to Baku (Azerbaijan) and Moscow (Russia Federation)
• November 2010 Conference Moscow ‘Islam in the Russian federation’’
• November 2011 Conference Baku ‘the Heritage of Ziika Buniiatov
• November 2011 Guest lectures at Khazar University (Baku)
• November 2011 Guest Lectures at Baku State University
• April 2012 Piano recital in Baku 20th Anniversary of Azerbaijani/Dutch relations
• April 2012 Guest lectures at Khazar University Baku
• May 2012 Conference Baku ‘90th Anniversary of Ziia Buniiatov’
• June 2012 Conference Moscow ‘Islam in former Soviet Union
• September – October 2012 University of Amsterdam Lectures ‘the History of 20th century Russia and Soviet Union’
• Organizer of the Eastern European Seminars EAST since January 2012
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MUSICAL CAREER Internationally Performing Concert Musician
• Touring Schedule of the Netherlands and Major International Capitals
• Specialty Repertoire Highlights Russian Composers, 20th Century Masterpieces
• Special 1997 Tour with Armenian Chamber Orchestra
• Concerts with Vladislav Warenberg, Alexander Skvortsov, Semjon Meerson and Grigori Sedukh
• Lecture-recitals: "Shostakovich and Stalinist Terror" (winter/spring 2013-2014); "The contribution of Azeri composers to national identity"; "Caucasian Nights" (Soviet-Armenian and -Azerbaijani artists and their contribution to Soviet nation-building)

Piano Pedagogue for advanced or highly talented students
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MY WORK ON CDS • De Romantische Cello (Brillant Classics)
• Bach, Concerto in d minor, Armenian Chamber Orchestra (Serenade)
• Black garden: piano music of Azerbaijan (Tel Aviv 2011)
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PUBLICATIONS • Bachelor Thesis: 'Dostoevsky, A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya), (an analysis)
• 'Stalin and the Chechen Problem.'
• Nagornyi Karabakh, the role and impact of foreign actors master thesis)
• ‘Ziia Buniiatov and Islam in Azerbaijan (publication December 2013)
• Ziia Buniiatov and Stalinist Terror in Azerbaijan (Baku, June 2012)
• Rise and Fall of Popular Front in Azerbaijan (Baku, December 2012)
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1990 tot heden
Pianist: concerterend, lezing-recitals, pianodocent
Slavist/Oost-Europa-deskundige: colleges (UvA bachelor programma), promovendus