Jamila Javadova-Spitzberg

Jamila Javadova-Spitzberg is an internationally renowned organist, keyboardist, and educator, praised by the American Record Guide for her tasteful, engaging performances. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas, with a major in Organ Performance and a minor in music theory. Javadova-Spitzberg serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UT Arlington and has performed at prestigious venues across the United States, former USSR countries, and Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, France, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland, and England. Notably, in April 2018, she performed a solo program at the Washington National Cathedral, marking the only performance by a female organist in the 2017-2018 concert series at the cathedral. Her performance of the G minor organ concerto by French composer F. Poulenc with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra on November 29, 2024, received widespread acclaim from both musicians and critics.

Javadova-Spitzberg has released two CDs featuring piano, orchestral, and ballet works by prominent Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev, as well as Johann Ernst Eberlin's "IX Toccata e Fughe per L'Organo." These recordings, made on the Marcussen & Søn organ at St. Laurenskerk in Rotterdam and the Johann Nepomuk Holzhey organ in Marchtal Abbey, Germany, are of significant cultural and historical importance. She is also committed to promoting Azerbaijani composers' organ works and has released video films featuring these pieces, recorded at the Elandstraat Church in The Hague, Netherlands.

Through a year-long fellowship at the Leopold Mozart Center in Augsburg, Germany, Javadova-Spitzberg received training in historical fortepiano performance practice. In 2022, she performed on the original Walter fortepiano (1782) of W.A. Mozart in Salzburg, Austria, and was inspired to acquire a copy of the 1805 Walter fortepiano, built for her by renowned maker Paul McNulty in Divišov, Czech Republic.

In 2017, Javadova-Spitzberg founded the Azerbaijan-American Music Foundation (AAMF), a non-profit organization dedicated to building "classical music bridges" between Azerbaijan and the USA. The foundation publishes classical works by Azerbaijani composers in the USA and organizes music competitions and concerts in collaboration with American and Azerbaijani musicians. For her efforts in advancing Azerbaijani classical music globally, she was awarded the "Tarraggi" Medal, a state honor from the Republic of Azerbaijan, in 2022 by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan for her contributions to the field of science.