OREANDA-NEWS. July 12, 2013. Successfully representing Azerbaijan on Swiss business scene, SOCAR is aimed to improve and strengthen cultural dialogue between Azerbaijan and Switzerland.

SOCAR is a proud partner of the 47-th Montreux Jazz Festival, which started and which is rightfully perceived as one of the most central and colourful festivals in the list of this year’s international jazz events. SOCAR has been the main partner of Montreux Jazz Festival for two consecutive years now.

Thanks to the fruitful cooperation with Montreux Jazz Festival Foundation during 2013, SOCAR was able to re-establish the famous Montreux Jazz guitar competition, which will be back to the official competition programme this year.

In addition to that, SOCAR will be supporting Azeri jazz singer Sevda Alekperzadeh who will perform in Montreux in the framework of this year’s “Music in the park”