Uzbekistan
Country of Origin: Uzbekistan
Performance years with AKMP: 2018
ABOUT
She is one of only two female musicians in Karakalpakstan who play the four-stringed spike fiddle ghirjek (the Karakalpak name for ghijak). She is a first-year student in the Nukus branch of the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts, studying in the Department of Folklore and Ethnography under Gulbahar Ahimbet
She is one of only two female musicians in Karakalpakstan who play the four-stringed spike fiddle ghirjek (the Karakalpak name for ghijak). She is a first-year student in the Nukus branch of the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts, studying in the Department of Folklore and Ethnography under Gulbahar Ahimbetova. She also studies independently as a shogird, or apprentice, of master musician Ghairatdin Otemuratov. In 2014 she won first prize in the Traditional Music Competition named after Muhiddin Kari-Yakubov, in Nukus.
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