On September 18-27, 2016, the VIII Uzeyir Hacibeyli International Music Festival will be held in various locations around Baku. The Festival is organized by the Azerbaijan Republic Ministry of Culture and Tourism and by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. As part of the festival, a masterclass with Slovakian violinist Ferhad Ashumov and Associate Professor Zulfiyya Sadigova, Head of the Department of Music and Fine Arts at Khazar University, will be held at Khazar University at 12:00 on September 27th.