Support of Batyrhan Shukenov Foundation

In 2018, the first scholarship named after Batyrkhan Shukenov was established together with the Batyrkhan Shukenov Foundation. It became an annual support for talented students of wind instrument classes throughout Kazakhstan. To participate, contestants submitted video recordings of their performance of musical pieces of their choice and were interviewed by jury members, who assessed the […]

In 2018, a printed music edition “Sagym dunie” was released, which contains Batyr’s works written by the artist’s friends – composers who went down in the history of Kazakh music: Kuat Shildebayev, Tolegen Mukhamedzhanov, Najib Vildanov and Renat Gaissin. The collection includes the works “Otan Ana”, “Sagym dunie”, “Kairan konil-ai”, “Ayalagan Arman-ai”, “Kezdesu”, “Ake”, “Zhan […]

The Republican Competition of Wooden Musical Instrument Performers named after Batyrkhan Shukenov became the first large-scale venue where wind instrument performers were able to show themselves. Over the two years of the Republican competition held in 2018 and 2019, 69 performers and 9 jazz bands from all over Kazakhstan took part in it. A special […]

Two concerts, nine music discs and previously unreleased songs are included in the gift collector’s edition of Batyrkhan Shukenov’s albums. “Otan Ana”, “Amanat”, “Your Steps”, “Be Careful, Sweet Girl!”, “Love Heals Us”, “Everything Will Pass”, “Soul” – this is an incomplete list of albums with already beloved compositions that are included in the edition. In […]

The second BATYR LAB residency for Central Asian composers, established by the Public Foundation “Batyrkhan Shukenov Foundation” and the Bulat Utemuratov Foundation in 2021, has ended.

In 2021, the Bulat Utemuratov’s Foundation allocated 3 billion Tenge for projects in the field of healthcare, education, culture and support for those in need.