Nezrin Efendiyeva, Azerbaijani pianist, composer and singer-songwriter was born in  Baku, Azerbaijan, into a musical family. Her grandfather, Fikret Amirov, a prominent Azerbaijani and Soviet composer, found fame as the inventor of a completely new musical genre: the Symphonic Mugham and her mother, Sevil Amirova, is a pianist and former professor at Baku’s State Music Academy.
Her grandfather was the first to recognise her musical talent, suggesting she join the special musical school of Baku. At the school, Nezrin studied Piano with Aliya Aliyeva, a dear friend of the family who also became Nezrin's close friend through the years.



At 15, she took part in the 1st Festival of Young Pianists in Baku and won an honorary diploma –followed by a recital at the capital’s State Philharmonic Hall. A year later (1995) she moved with her family to Brussels where she entered the Belgian capital city’s Royal Conservatory. There she was taught piano by Eugene Moguilevsky, winner of the prestigious International Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in 1964. She graduated from the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music in2001, with the Superiour Diploma in Piano.

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While still studying at the conservatory Nezrine played in a variety of concerts/recitals, including a duet with Reiko Otanii, a violinist who was a finalist in the Queen Elizabeth Competition in 1997, and programmes of chamber music by Azeri and Belgian composers, Amirov, Bach and Chopin among others. She also revived some of her grandfather’s almost forgotten compositions, giving a second premiere for Amirov’s Double Concerto for Piano and Violin in 2002  with the Izmir Symphony Orchestra in Turkey– more than 50 years after it was written when Amirov was just 26, performed in 1948 and never played again.

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Two years later, in 2004, at the 80th anniversary of his birth, she performed his piano concerto “Arabian Themes” with Maestro Rauf Abdullayev and Azerbaijani Symphony Orchestra.

In October that year, she  performed  Fikret Amirov's Double Concerto with Azerbaijani Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Fakhraddin Kerimov at the Baku State Philarmonic Hall

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Meanwhile, in 2003, she won third prize at the international piano competition in the Spanish city of Huesca, drawing praise in the local Press for the “sensitivity and clarity” of her playing of Chopin’s C Minor Nocturne – a work she also performed later that year at a special gala evening for NATO in
Brussels, with Lord Robertson, the then general secretary  among the audience.
 

A passionate devotee of Baroque music from her early childhood, Nezrine re-entered the conservatoryi n Brussels in 2004 to follow the harpsichord classes of Frederic Haas. She was inspired to found a Baroque ensemble using original instruments that she named “L’Estro Barocco” in homage to Vivaldi.
​Their debut performance took place in late 2007 with Bach and Corelli on the program. 



After giving birth to a son in 2005 she effectively put her career on hold but was propelled to enact her childhood dream of becoming a singer-songwriter. This second string to her career really took off in 2008 after meeting Gayle Gow, a Brussels-based American mezzo-soprano who became her singing

teacher (and close friend). She has now written close to 20 songs and arrangements, and is working on her first album.
 

In Spring 2010 she took part in the finals of Belgium’s biggest Francophone song-writing competition, a Biennale de la Chanson Francaise, and she is now working on a project to re-arrange traditional Azerbaijani songs – and, once more, revive some of her grandfather’s works.

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In July 2011, Nezrin iwas invited by the Belgian embassy in Baku for a concert project involving one of the biggest local Art Centers, "Buta Arts". During this project, created to promote Belgian-Azerbaijani cultural relations, Nezrin performed most of her songs and arrangements, and created an astonishing duo with her uncle, a renowned Jazz Musician and Composer Jamil Amirov. All the funds raised from this event went to  Buta Helpline, to help children who are victims of domestic violence.
 

In July 2012, she was invited to perform Fikret Amirov’s Double Doncerto with Azerbaijani Symphony Orchestra, at the prestigious Gabala International Music Festival, in Azerbaijan.
 

In November that year, she went back to Baku, this time performing both piano concertos of her grandfather with Azerbaijani Symphony Orchestra at the 90th Anniversary of Fikret Amirov’s birth.

 

In December of the same year, Azerbaijani Congress in Benelux awarded Nezrin with a "Crystal Note" Award, for the outstanding achievements in music by an azerbaijani artist living in Europe.

 

In October 2013 Nezrin wrote the score for the Azerbaijani filmmaker Maria Ibrahimova's new release " Letter to God", which became the beginning of a new direction in Nezrin's musical career, that of a Film Music composer.

 

A documentary named « Yvonne », a CNN and EURONEWS broadcasted   "Baku 2015 : Make History with Us" and a series of 8 promotional documentaries named «  On the Road to Baku » created for the Baku 2015 First European Games followed that collaboration with Maria.

 

In September 2015, "Letter to God" won Audience Winner Award and «Best of the festival showcase» at the Prestigeous DC Shorts Film Festival in Washington DC.

 

Since 2017, Nezrin is the pianist of the Belgium based Trio Manestri. Together, the Trio has recorded 2 CD's:" Esprits Nomades"  and "Esprits Nomades- Le Voyage Continue."