Imanbaev A.K.
Full name: Imanbayev Azamat
e-mail: Azamat.imanbaev.94@mail.ru
Academic position: Senior Lecturer of the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
Academic degree: Master of Arts and Sciences, doctoral student
The name of the specialty and the code indicated in the diploma of higher education:
5B040200 – «Instrumental Performance», specialization «Saxophone» (Bachelor's degree)
6M040200 – «Instrumental Performance», specialization «Saxophone» (Master's degree)
Education/qualification: (year, country, institution):
– 2013 – Republican secondary specialized music school for gifted children named after Kulyash Baiseitova
– 2017 – Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, qualification: soloist, orchestra and ensemble artist, teacher
– 2019 – Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, qualification: Master of Art History Sciences
Work experience: (year, month, institution, position):
– 2019 – Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, teacher of the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
– 2023 – Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Senior Lecturer, Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
– 2023 – Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Head of the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
– 2025 – Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Senior Lecturer, Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
Titles, honors, awards (national, international):
1. 2016 - Winner of «Personal diploma» of the International Festival of Creative Youth «Shabyt», Kazakh National University of Arts
2. 2016 - Laureate of III - degree of the Republican Student Subject Olympiad, Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory
3. 2019 - Laureate of I - degree of the International Competition of Brass Instrument Performers, K. Karaev Central Music School
4. 2021 - Laureate III - degree I International Competition of instrumental performance named after Eva, Joseph, Semyon Kogan, Almaty (November, 2021), nomination «chamber ensemble», Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory
5. 2021 - Letter of Gratitude of the MCS RK
6. 2021 - Letter of Gratitude of the MCS RK
7. 2021 - Diploma II - degree (scientific works), Best in Education - 2021, Association Nationwide Movement «Bobek», Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan city
8. 2022 - Grand Prix - Maestro International Distance Competition-Festival of Performing Arts
9. 2022 - Letter of Gratitude from the Director of the State Institution «Complex, Music College-Music Boarding School for Gifted Children»
10. 2022 - Letter of Gratitude from the Director of the Mukan Tulebayev Music School
11. 2022 - Letter of Gratitude from the Director of the East Kazakhstan College of Arts named after People's Artists Abdullin brothers
12. 2023 - Letter of thanks from the Director of the State Institution «Complex, Music College-Music Boarding School for Gifted Children»
13. 2023 - Letter of Gratitude from the Director of the Mukan Tulebayev Music School
14. 2023 - Letter of Gratitude from the Director of the East Kazakhstan College of Arts named after People's Artists Abdullin brothers
2024 - Letter of Honour of the МCI RK
Laureates:
1. 2021 - Yesengel Dauletiyar - III prize, III International Internet competition of wind and percussion instrument performers dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of T.A. Dokshitzer, Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov
2. 2022 - Yesengel Dauletiyar - Grand Prix, International multi-genre competition «World talents»
3. 2022 - Yesengel Dauletiyar - ІI prize, International Distance Competition-Festival of Performing Arts «Maestro»
Scientific papers, editions, publications
– Publications (foreign and local):
1. Imanbayev A. To the history of the emergence of the saxophone as a new expressive means of music // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Fundamental and Applied Research in Modern Science». - Astana: RNPC «Білім – Образование – Education», 16-17 February, 2018. - р. 153-157
2. Imanbaуev A. About the Kazakh performing school of saxophone playing. // Materials of the International scientific-practical conference «Priorities of pedagogical science and modern education» - Astana: RNPC «Білім – Образование – Education», March, 2018. - р. 119-124
3. Imanbaуev A. Artur Orenburgsky: touches to the portrait of the Kazakh composer and pianist // Materials of the first republican master's readings «Prospects of research: musical art through the eyes of young scientists». - Almaty: Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, February, 2019. - р. 4-11
4. Imanbaуev A., Nussupova A. About the concerto for saxophone and wind orchestra «From KZ» by Y. Lebedeva // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Performing Art: History, Methodology, Practice». - Almaty: Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, April, 2019. - р. 175-180
5. Imanbaуev A., Aigalkaуev N. To the question of the concept of «interpretation» in musical science // Actual problems of modern performance on wind and percussion instruments: Materials of the All-Russian (extramural) scientific and methodological conference / Ed.-composer: L.B. Fomenko, F.F. Nigmatzyanov. - Ufa: Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov, 2021 - р. 8-14
6. Imanbaуev A. Stylistic Features of Interpretation of the Concerto for Saxophone and Symphony Orchestra by K. Kuzhamyarov // Proceedings of the «I International Book Edition of the Commonwealth of Independent States / Best in Education – 2021»: I International Book Collection of Scientific and Pedagogical Workers - Nur-Sultan, 2021 - р. 5-10
7. Imanbayev A.K. The Role of Cultural and Educational Projects in the Development of Saxophone Performance in Kazakhstan // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Innovation and Preservation of Traditions in the Context of Contemporary Performance on Wind and Percussion Instruments". – Tashkent: Tashkent State Conservatory, June 2025. – pp. 99–110.
– Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
1. Imanbayev A., Nussupova A. To the problem of style in works for saxophone in the works of composers of Kazakhstan // Science and Life of Kazakhstan. №7/2 2019. - С. 336-339
2. Imanbayev A., Begembetova G. «Kazakh folk music in saxophone works of composers of Kazakhstan». Saryn, vol. 12, № 3, 2024, с. 74-94. DOI: 10.59850/SARYN.3.12.2024.218.
3. Imanbayev, Azamat, and Galiya Begembetova. "The Saxophone Class of the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory: History and Practice." Central Asian Journal of Art Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2025, pp. 94–112. doi:10.47940/cajas.v10i1.1049.
– Participation in conferences:
1. Fundamental and applied research in modern science, RNPC «Білім – Образование – Education», Kazakhstan, Astana, 16-17 February, 2018.
2. Priorities of pedagogical science and modern education RNPC «Білім – Образование – Education», Kazakhstan, Astana, March, 2018.
3. Perspectives of Research: Musical Art through the Eyes of Young Scientists, Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Kazakhstan, Almaty: February, 2019.
4. Performing Arts: History, Methodology, Practice, Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Kazakhstan, Almaty: April, 2019.
5. Actual problems of modern performance on wind instruments, Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov, Russian Federation, Ufa: April, 2021.
6. Best in Education – 2021, Association Nationwide Movement «Bobek», Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan: September, 2021.
7. Zhas kyran, Association «Genius», Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan: September, 2021.
8. «Performing Art: Traditions and Modernity», dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Kazakhstan, Almaty: April, 2024.
9. Imanbayev A.K. The Role of Cultural and Educational Projects in the Development of Saxophone Performance in Kazakhstan // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Innovation and Preservation of Traditions in the Context of Contemporary Performance on Wind and Percussion Instruments". – Tashkent: Tashkent State Conservatory, June 2025
Sphere of scientific interests: The profile of scientific activity is connected with research of problems of style and performing interpretation in works for saxophone by composers of Kazakhstan and research of problems of modern performing on saxophone.
– Professional development: (internships, trainings, seminars, courses):
1. 2019 - International research internship, Baku Music Academy named after U. Hajibeyli, Azerbaijan
2. 2019 - International performing internship, Baku Music Academy named after U. Hajibeyli, Azerbaijan
3. 2020 - Techniques and skills, Orta Bilimnen Katingi Bilim Beru Kumdaryndagy: content and content management: content and content management process, professional development courses (36 hours), Almaty.
4. 2020 - Student will not be able to take any specialised training courses (36 hours), professional development courses, Almaty, Almaty
5. 2020 - Online training: Opportunities and practical application, refresher courses (72h.), Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Almaty city
6. 2022 - Instrumental performance: orchestral wind and percussion instruments, advanced training courses (72h.), M. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatoire
7. 2022 - Actual problems of modern performance on wind and percussion instruments, advanced training courses (36h.), Almaty
8. 2022 - Pedagogical Exchange Programme (Erasmus+) 26 hours, Higher Conservatory of Music, Vigo, Spain
9. 2023 - master class «Peculiarities of concert performance on wind instruments» was held within the framework of advanced training in the amount of 36 hours, in the speciality «Instrumental performance. Wind and percussion instruments», (Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory).
10. 2023 the course of advanced training in the amount of 36 hours in the framework of the programme «Erasmus+» professors of the Higher Conservatory of Music of Vigo, (Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory)
11. 2023 - Management in education: management of academic process and educational programmes’, Excellent educational centre, in the volume of 90 hours
12. 2024 - Instrumental performance: wind and percussion instruments, advanced training courses (72 hours), M.Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatoire
13. 2024 – «Inclusive Higher Education: Creating a Comfortable Educational Environment for Students with SLD», Bilim-Sapa, in the amount of 80 hours
14. 2024 - Research internship at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest). Ferenc Liszt Music Academy (Budapest, Hungary)
15. 2024 - Professional development courses on the Professional Development Training Programme for Educational Leaders within the framework of the project KZEMP / DS-02 «2Implementation of the Teacher Education Model and Strengthening its Content», Hayame University of Applied Sciences, Finland, in the object of 72 hours
Foreign language skills:
English – B2 (IELTS 6.0)