Azimkhodjaeva, Shakhida
Native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva began to study violin at the
Special Music School, Tashkent State Conservatory with Professor Gulnar Suleimanova.
She gave her debut with the Uzbekistan Symphony Orchestra when she was eleven and
won the National Violin Competition in 1985. Ms. Azimkhodjaeva graduated from the
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she studied with Professor Irina Medvedeva.
Ms. Azimkhodjaeva was one of the founders of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra ARCO.
