Hidan Mamudov was born in Macedonia in 1982. He studied for a year with Sidney Forrest and then for a further two years with Petko Radev in Bulgaria. In 2000 he went on to study at the Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Horst Hajek. He has participated in masterclasses with Charles Neidich, Stanley Drucker and Robert Spring. He received scholarships from the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Durr foundation and the Viktor-Bunzl-Stipendium. He was a finalist at the Ciudad de Dos Hermanas competition and won first prize at the Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest competition. He appeared as a soloist with the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra under the conductor Jouan Romero and Thomas Platzgummer. Other conductors he has worked with include Pierre Boulez, Franz Welser-Most, Kirill Petrenko and Mark Stringer. He is a founder of the Trio Prestige, which has won competitions in Greece and Austria. The ensemble has given concerts in Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria.
