26 Notable alumni of
V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
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V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire is 1319th in the world, 290th in Asia, and 3rd in Georgia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Khatia Buniatishvili
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- classical pianist
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Khatia Buniatishvili is a Georgian-born French concert pianist.
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Tamara Gverdtsiteli
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- actorsingerpoetwritercomposer
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Tamara Gverdtsiteli is a Georgian, Israeli, Soviet and Russian singer, actress and composer. People's Artist of Georgia (1991) and Russia (2004)
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Giya Kancheli
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
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Gia Kancheli was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and resided in Belgium in later life.
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Otar Iosseliani
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- pedagoguefilm directordocumentary filmmakerpianistfilm editor
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Otar Iosseliani was a Georgian film director, known for movies such as Falling Leaves, Pastorale and Favorites of the Moon. Iosseliani received a lifetime achievement honor – the CineMerit Award at the Munich International Film Festival in 2011 for his career accomplishments.
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Nani Bregvadze
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- pianistsingermusic educator
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Nani Giorgis asuli Bregvadze is a Georgian and Soviet singer, pianist, music pedagogue, people's artist of the USSR (1983).
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Zurab Sotkilava
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1965
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- association football playeropera singermusic educator
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Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava was a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USSR recipient.
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Merab Kostava
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- musiciandissidentwriterpoet
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Merab Kostava was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he led the dissident movement in Georgia against the Soviet Union and was active in protests for an independent Georgia, until his death in a car crash in 1989.
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Eliso Virsaladze
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- music educatorpianist
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Eliso Virsaladze is a Georgian pianist.
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Anita Rachvelishvili
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- opera singer
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Anita Rachvelishvili is a Georgian operatic mezzo-soprano. She is especially known for singing Verdi; conductor Riccardo Muti said in 2018: "She is without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet. Without. Doubt." She is also well known for singing Bizet's Carmen. Opera News magazine has stated that "Rachvelishvili is a unique dramatic presence. Her dark, smoldering eyes and cascading black curls are striking, but what is unusual is the juxtaposition of fiery surface and an inward-focused quality, seeming to draw power from some secret space."
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Jansug Kakhidze
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1958
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- film score composercomposerconductorsinger
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Jansug Ivanes dze Kakhidze was a Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor nicknamed "the Georgian Karajan". Kakhidze was music director of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra for two decades beginning in 1973. He is the father of composer and conductor Vakhtang Kakhidze.
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Nino Machaidze
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- opera singermusician
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Nino Machaidze is a Georgian operatic soprano. She performs in 19th-century Romantic repertoire, primarily in operas by Rossini and Verdi as well as French operas. Beginning her career at La Scala, she gained international attention after being cast as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the 2008 Salzburg Festival, after which she earned the nickname "Angelina Jolie of Opera" from the Austrian press.
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Irma Sokhadze
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- composerpoettelevision presentersinger
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Irma Sokhadze is a Georgian singer, actress, public figure, television host, and pianist.
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Paata Burchuladze
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- opera singer
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Paata Burchuladze is a Georgian operatic bass and civil activist. After his debut in his native Tbilisi in 1976, he embarked on a 35-year-long musical career during which he made appearances at leading opera houses across Europe and the United States. Through his foundation, he became involved in children charity in Georgia in 2004. From May to December 2016, Burchuladze briefly entered politics of Georgia, founding the political party State for the People to challenge the incumbent Georgian Dream coalition government in the scheduled October 2016 parliamentary election, in which the party failed to win any seat in the legislature. Since July 2017, Burchuladze has been leading the opera division of St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theatre, one of Russia's oldest opera and ballet houses.
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Makvala Kasrashvili
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- opera singermusic educator
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Makvala Kasrashvili is a Georgian opera singer (soprano).
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Rezo Lagidze
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- composerfilm score composer
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Revaz Ilias dze Lagidze, known professionally as Rezo Lagidze, was a 20th-century Georgian composer. Recognized as the People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1961) and a laureate of the USSR State Prize, he wrote a variety of compositions ranging from opera to symphonic works and film scores. Lagidze's notable compositions include his 1973 opera "Lela" and the "Song about Tbilisi", which remains popular in Georgia and Russia to this day.
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Samuil Samosud
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- cellistmusic educatorconductor
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Samuil Abramovich Samosud was a Soviet and Russian conductor and pedagogue.
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Shio Mujiri
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- priest
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Shio Mujiri, born Elizbar Mujiri (ელიზბარ მუჯირი), (born 1 February 1969) is a Georgian Orthodox hierarch who became bishop of Senaki and Chkhorotsku in 2003 and Patriarchal locum tenens in 2017.
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Lamara Chkonia
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1956
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- politicianopera singermusic educator
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Lamara Chkonia was a Georgian soprano. As one of a number of opera singers who made contributions to the vocal culture of Georgia and the former Soviet Union, Lamara was one of the few women to break through the Iron Curtain.
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Vazha Azarashvili
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- film score composerclassical pianistcomposermusic educator
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Vaja Azarashvili was a Georgian composer, pianist, and teacher. He was notably an Honored Worker of Art (1979), a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1988), a Knight of the Order of Honor (1998) and an Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi.
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Artemi Ayvazyan
- Enrolled in V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
- Studied in 1923
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- composercellistconductorjazz musician
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Artemi Ayvazyan (Armenian: Արտեմի Այվազյան, Russian: Артемий Айвазян; June 26, 1902 – November 14, 1975) was a Soviet Armenian composer, conductor, founder of the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra, and People's Artist of Armenia (1962).
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Joseph Jordania
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- musicologist
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Joseph Jordania is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne and the Head of the Foreign Department of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory. Jordania is known for his model of the origins of human choral singing in the wide context of human evolution and was one of founders of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony in Georgia.
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Raya Garbousova
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- music educatorcellist
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Raya Garbousova was a Russian-born American cellist and teacher.
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Ioseb Kechakmadze
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- composerfilm score composer
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Ioseb Kechakmadze was a Georgian composer.
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Alexander Korsantia
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- pianist
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Alexander Korsantia is a Georgian pianist.
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Mindia Khitarishvili
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- music educatorcomposer
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Mindia Khitarishvili is an Israeli and Georgian composer.
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Elene Dzamashvili
- Occupations
- pianist
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Elena Dzamashvili was a Georgian classical pianist, professor of piano and chamber music who developed her professional career in two countries.
