Eteri andjaparidze biography
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Eteri Andjaparidze
Highlights of her international festival engagements as an artist and faculty have included Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, International Keyboard Institue and Festival, Mannes Sou
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The Georgian-born pianist, Eteri Andjaparidze, was born to a family of prominent musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. She received her first piano lessons from her pianist mother Yvette Bachtadze. Her father, Zurab Andjaparidze (1928-1997), great Georgian tenor, was the leading soloist with the Bolshoi and Tbilisi Operas. Her stepfather, Leonid Oakley (1923-1991), was a renowned Georgian scientist. At age 5, Eteri was enrolled in the Tbilisi Special Music School for Gifted Children (the piano studio of Meri Chavchanidze). By age 9, she debuted in solo recital as well as a soloist with the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, she entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, where she earned her Master's and Doctoral degrees in piano solo and collaborative performance, and pedagogy under the guidance of Vera Gornostaeva, a lärling of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus.
Eteri Andjaparidze became the first Soviet pianist to win Grand Prix at the 1976 Montreal Internat
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Artist Faculty
NYU Steinhardt
Mannes School of Music
Former Faculty
DePaul University School of Music
Tenured Full-Time Professor of Piano, Head of the Keyboard Programs
SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music
Affiliate Artist-Teacher of Piano &