Ibrahim Yaji (; born. 1984, Khartoum) — the first classical musician from Sudan. He studied piano at the Arabic school of music when he took the 4-th prize at the IBLA International Competition in Italy, having participated as a Syrian musician, and that was marked by the Syrian minister of culture , that gave him the chance to make his first public performance with the Syrian national symphony orchestra , playing the 1-st piano concerto of Beethoven, and then the 12-th piano concerto of Mozart, The conductor was Solhi Al-Wadi. Ibrahim was 11 years when he had those first serious public performances. Ibrahim moved to Russia, where he continued to study music in the Ippolitov Ivanov institute of music, where he studied with Benjamin Levitsy, and Sergei Slepnev . At 2003 Ibrahim enrolled to Moscow conservatory, where he is studying with the honored artist of Russia Alexei Nasedkin. Ibrahim Yaji took master classes from such musicians like Vladimir Krainev and Daniel Pollack, as well as different music festivals as the UNESCO festival in Bryansk (Russia), and Vladimir Spivakov's festival in Moscow , as well as taking part in the concert program of Moscow's youth chamber orchestra, wich is a presented by the "Russian performance arts foundation", At 2007 Ibrahim was invited by the Arab Expatriates Department to take part in the annual trip to Qatar, under the patronage of the league of the Arab States. At the same year Yaji took part in the concert organized to help the children of the clinic of the famous Russian doctor Leonid Roshal, which took part at the grand hall of Moscow conservatory,with "Novaya Russia" Symphony orchestra, Ibrahim Yaji was also invited by the Russian artist-photographer Olga Franskevich, to take part in the famous Millionaire Fair event, at 2008.
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