Editor: Saimure Duolikun
29/9/2023
Dimash Qudaibergen

Dimash Qudaibergen, is a Kazakhsinger, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is university-trained in classical as well as contemporary music, and is known for his exceptionally wide vocal range. He has performed songs in thirteen languages.

Although offered a position at the Astana Opera, he decided to carve out his career in contemporary music, mixing classical elements and traditional Kazakh music with pop music.

He gained significant popularity in Kazakhstan and other post-Soviet countries in 2015 upon becoming the Grand Prix winner of Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, Belarus. He rose to fame in China with his participation as a “wildcard competitor” in Hunan TV’s Singer 2017 (Chinese: ๆญŒๆ‰‹2017) finishing second overall.

Early life

Dinmuhammed Qanatuly Qudaibergen was born on 24 May 1994 in Aktobe, to Qanat Qลซdaibergenลซly Aitbaev (Kazakh: าšะฐะฝะฐั‚ าšาฑะดะฐะนะฑะตั€ะณะตะฝาฑะปั‹ ะะนั‚ะฑะฐะตะฒ) and Svetlana Aitbaeva (Kazakh: ะกะฒะตั‚ะปะฐะฝะฐ ะะนั‚ะฑะฐะตะฒะฐ). His father previously led the regional Cultural Development Board of Aktobe. His mother is a soprano singer at the Aktobe Philharmonic Society, a Member of the Standing Committee on Social and Cultural Development (Deputy of Maslihat of Aktobe region) and artistic director of the children’s studio Saz in the Aktobe Region.

Kudaibergen has a younger sister named Raushan and a younger brother named Abilmansur, who is also a musician, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and drummer.

Kudaibergen was brought up in a close-knit musical family, and his grandparents played a major role in his upbringing, which followed largely traditional Kazakhcustoms.

Kudaibergen began performing at a young age, singing and playing the piano. His first appearance on stage was at the age of two in a minor role in a local theatre production. At home Qudaibergen took an interest in musical instruments, and his parents and his music teacher noticed that he had absolute pitch. At the age of five, he began to take piano and vocal lessons at the children’s studio of the local music college. Qudaibergen first sang on stage the same year, at the age of five. At the age of six, in 2000, he won the national piano contest Aynalayin.

Education

At the age of five, Qudaibergen began to take piano and vocal lessons at the children’s studio of Aktobe’s Akhmet Zhubanov Music College. He later attended Gymnasium No. 32 in Aktobe.Qudaibergen completed a Broadway Musical master class in 2009. In 2014, he graduated in Classical Music with Major in Vocal (Bel Canto) from the music institute of K. Zhubanov University in Aktobe[citation needed] and began his studies in Contemporary Music (Jazz, Pop) at Kazakh National University of Arts in Astana, where he graduated with Major in Vocal on 27 June 2018. On 18 June 2020, he graduated from the same university with a master’s degree in Composition by defending his Master’s thesis with a perfect score, and receiving a recommendation for admission to doctoral studies in music.

Qudaibergen plays seven instruments: piano, keyboards, dombra, drums, guitar, marimba and bayan.

He speaks Kazakh and Russian, and is studying English and Mandarin. He has performed songs in 13 languages, Kazakh, Russian,English, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Serbian, Turkish,Ukrainian, Kyrgyz, and Japanese.

In December 2022, Dimash Qudaibergen became the owner of the Bolashak International Scholarship.

If we started writing his resume and the activities he participated in, 10 pages would not be enough. He has participated in countless events and we as the SD Luxury Magazine team wish him more and more success.