Aisha Orazbayeva

Violinist Aisha Orazbayeva specializes in avant-garde music and in Baroque works. Both specialties are uncommon for a musician from Central Asia. Orazbayeva was born in the Kazakh capital of Almaty in 1985 when Kazakhstan was still part of the Soviet Union. Her family was filled with musicians and actors, and she remembers a grandfather's singing, accompanied by the Kazakh dombra lute. At the age of four and a half, she saw violinist Aiman Mussahadjaeva performing violin on television and decided she wanted to be a violinist. Orazbayeva was enrolled at Almaty's Special Music ...