Biography

Agim Hushi was born in Albania.
After his University studies for literature and psychology in Tirana, he was discovered as a musical talent with an extraordinary tenor voice.
He pursued his studies at the Albanian Academy of Arts in Tirana from which he graduated with excellent results in 1991.

From 1991-1992 he was principal tenor with the Albanian State Opera, where he performed the main tenor roles in Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana and Il Trovatore.
From 1992-1995 Agim Hushi continued his postgraduate studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where, in parallel with vocal studies, he specialized in pedagogy of singing.

In 1995 he was appointed principal tenor at the Hungarian State Opera where he performed many major roles ranging in operas including Manon Lescout, Turandot, Il Tabarro, Il Lombardi and Purgacov.

From 1997 Agim Hushi pursued his career in Australia where he was invited to sing first, the role of Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, for South Australian State Opera in Adelaide under the baton of maestro Richard Bonynge

Richard Bonynge

Richard Alan Bonynge, AO, CBE is an Australian conductor and pianist.Bonynge was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School before studying piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He gave up his music scholarship, continuing his private piano studies, and became a coach for...

 who said: "In my entire experience working with Agim Hushi has been a wonderful discovery. Agim Hushi and Laura Niculescu are the best cast in the world today".

Based on such great success he was invited and contracted for the same opera, to sing for Opera Australia

Opera Australia

Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne...

. His Sydney Opera House debut was highly acclaimed and critics compared him to the legendary tenor Beniamino Gigli.

Hushi continued to sing around Asia, New Zealand and USA.
In 1999 with an Australian government grant he went for a belcanto experience in Milan with Franco Corelli

Franco Corelli

Franco Corelli was a famous Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, a...

, who wrote for him: "Agim Hushi's voice is strong and beautiful and he deserve an International career".

Hushi has sung in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Dubai, Hungary, Germany, Russia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Croatia, Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Greec, Cyprus, Denmark, Italy, Spain, UK, Suiss, Albania and Austria.

His best roles are Cavaradosi, Calaf, Des Grieux, Radames, Manrico, Luigi, Canio and Turiddu.

In 2010 Agim Hushi recorded with Albanian soprano Inva Mula

Inva Mula

Inva Mula is an Albanian opera soprano and actress. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Her father and mother were also opera singers. -Life and Career:...

for EMI her new CD, Il Bel Sogno with operatic arias supported by Zagreb Philarmonic Orchestra.

Hushi is currently the Head of the Opera Department at the Vienna Conservatorium and regarded as one of the foremost singing teachers in Europe.
He was the founder of Belcanto School of Singing in Adelaide, Australia.
Also he was teaching while continuing his singing at Singapore’s National University.
Agim Hushi has given master classes around the world like in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Denmark and in many notable vocal institutions in European countries such as Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Ecole Normal in Paris.

Recently

• Cavaradosi from Tosca, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. August 2004
• Cavaradosi from Tosca, Singapore Lyric Opera September–October 2004
• Calaf from Turandot, Albanian National Opera of Tirana May–June 2005
• Manrico from Opera Trovatore, XV International Festival of Opera, Russia December 2005
• July 2005 concerts recitals, Greece-Athens
• September 2005, Prishtina Kosovo
• July 2005 Macedonia, Festival of Ohrid
• April 2006 recital, Albanian National Opera of Tirana
• October- November 2006 Cavaradosi from opera Tosca, Albanian National Opera
• July–August 2007 Radames from Aida in Tirana Albanian National Opera
• September 2007 Recital in Vienna
• October 2007 Recital in Old Fellow Palace Copenhage, Danimark
• November Turiddu from Cavalleria Rusticana in Bulgaria
• December Recital Christmas Concert in Copenhagen
• December 2007 Recital in Sophia, Bulgaria with Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra
• December 2007 Recital in Stara Zagora Opera in Bulgaria
• March–April 2008 singing Manrico from Il Trovatore in Albanian National Opera
• April concert Recital in Nicosia, Cyprus
• June Concert Recital with National Opera Orchestra in Albania
• July Concert, Festival “The tone on the stone” Forlie, Italy Symphonic Orchestra of Bologna
• August 2008 singing Radames from opera Aida in open air
• November Concert Recital in London, UK
• April Concert in Budapest
• September Concert Recital in Monte Carlo.
• January Concert Recital in Macau
• Februar Concert Recital in Hong Kong
• May Concert Recital in Shanghai
• Septembre 2011, Concert Vienna State Opera, Tenor Guest in Memorial of Mario Del Monaco

External links

• http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hushi+vitoria&aq=f
• http://www.google.com/imgres?q=agim+hushi&hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1W1ADRA_en&biw=1366&bih=587&tbm=isch&prmd=ivnso&tbnid=XTO7THgE6s51tM:&imgrefurl=http://www.musicint.co.uk/artists_3_9_97_s_1_tenor-agim-hushi/&docid=46rRQMAtem-JqM&w=224&h=336&ei=es8rTof2Fc3tsgaBho3XCw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=150&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=112&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=56&ty=40