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By Nigar Orujova

The fifth grand Gabala International Music Festival, organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism, will start in a picturesque region of Azerbaijan - Gabala from July 24 until August 6, the Culture and Tourism Ministry reports.

Forthcoming grandiose traditional music festival will bring together the world's famous musicians and music lovers from around the country.

The festival has already made a tremendous contribution to promoting Azerbaijan's cultural values and musical traditions worldwide.

The upcoming festival will be attended by prominent musicians, art groups, soloists, conductors of Azerbaijan and foreign countries, including the world-famous conductors, musicians and bands from Russia, Turkey, UK, USA, Italy, France, South Korea, Israel, Lithuania, Cuba, and Kazakhstan.

The Gabala stage will host such famous world musicians as the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet and the Symphony Orchestra of New Russia, the jazz band from Cuba, Amos Talmon, Boris Berezovsky, Vadim Repin, Oxana Yablonsky, Dmitry Yablonsky, Yoder Benjamin, Mirko Roverelli, Carmelo Corrado Caruso, Idil Biret, Nina Kogan, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Jean Koenig, Ayman Musahadzhaeva, Alexander Soloviev, Sergei Leiferkus, Muza Rubackyte, Hee Yong Choe, Mikhail Gutman.

Performers from Azerbaijan are expected to include the Azerbaijan State Symphonic orchestra named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov, the Chamber Orchestra of Baku Music Academy named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov, People's Artists Farhad Badalbeyli, Rauf Abdullayev, Murad Adigozelzadeh, Yalchin Adigozalov, Murad Huseynov, Egyana Akhundova, Mansum Ibragimov, Honored Art worker Fahraddin Kerimov, Honored Artists Gulnaz Ismayilova, Toghrul Ganiyev, Elchin Azizov, Farida Mammadova, Sabina Asadova, Elchin Hashimov, Elnur Akhmedov, Sahib Pashazade, winners of international competitions Fuad Ibragimov, Yusif Eyvazov, Elvin Ganiyev, Azer Rzazade, as well as talented young soloists, and performers of folk music mugham.

Northern city Gabala recently become one of the cultural capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2013.

The city became the venue for holding major cultural events in recent years. This year Gabala already hosted the third Gabala International Art Exhibition in May, and concerts in the frame of the third International Mugham Festival in March.