Conductor Aziz Shokhakimov, born in 1988 in Tashkent, has been thrilling audiences since he was thirteen years old, when he debuted with the Uzbek National Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, he won the second prize in the prestigious Mahler Conducting Competition, and in 2016 he won the young conductors’ competition at the Salzburg Festival.

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