LTV Studios and Hamptons Jazz Fest (https://hamptonsjazzfest.org/) have announced they will host a Piano Masters Series on various dates throughout August. Guests will enjoy an intimate evening of music and conversation with a series of Piano Masters including: Amina Figarova.. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the show will start at 6 p.m. A $10 donation is required and tickets may be purchased by visiting https://bit.ly/3Ne2jyi or texting “LTVPIANO” 41444.

Monday, August 7 – Amina Figarova

AMINA FIGAROVA:

Amina Figarova is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist. Trained as a classical pianist in Baku, she became interested in local folk music, later specializing in jazz. Since the late 1980s, together with her husband, the flutist Bart Platteau, she has performed in jazz festivals around the world. Born in Baku on December 2, 1964, Amina Figarova learned to play the piano as a small child and began composing when only six years old. She attended the Baku Academy of Music where she studied to become a classical concert pianist. In 1988, while at the Moscow Jazz Festival, she was invited to study at the Rotterdam Conservatoire where she soon developed an interest in jazz. She completed her education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. While in the United States, she became involved in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Colony in Aspen, Colorado. Together with the flutist Bart Platteau whom she later married, she began to perform in jazz concerts around the world. Her albums September Suite and more recently Blue Whisper were inspired in part by the events of September 11, when she was in New York playing at the Blue Note Jazz Club. Chicago critic Neil Tesser rates her as one of the leading contemporary jazz composers both with September Suite and Come Escape With Me.