Eteri Andjaparidze, Georgia/USA

Eteri Andjaparidze has gained international acclaim as one of the most multifaceted artists and insightful pedagogues. Her discography on Naxos, Marco Polo, and Melodia labels includes Grammy and Deutsche Schallplatten awards-nominated solo albums.

She has appeared around the globe in solo recitals, chamber programs, and as a guest soloist with major orchestras and conductors. Her international festival engagements include Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, International Keyboard Festival-Institute, Mannes Sounds Festival, NYU Summer Piano Intensive, Round Top Festival-Institute, PianoSummer at New Paltz, Los Angeles International Piano Symposium, Piano Festival Northwest, Southeastern Piano Festival, Apollo Music Festival, Puerto Piano, Bermuda Piano Festival, Villa Sandra Piano Academy, Todi International Music Masters, Festival International de Colmar, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Duszniki-Zdroj International Chopin Festival, White Nights, Russian Winter, Neuhaus Piano Festival, and Autumn Tbilisi Music Festival.

A Steinway Artist, Andjaparidze has founded and directed special projects and festivals such as The United Sounds of America, PianoTheatre, and an artistic/educational program AmerKlavier, the first piano performance studio named to the International Steinway Artists roster.

She teaches on the piano faculties at NYU Steinhardt and Mannes School of Music, and has served as Head of the Keyboard Program and Professor of Piano at DePaul University, Chicago, the State University of New York, and the Moscow and Tbilisi State Conservatoires, and as Visiting Professor at the Xi’an and Foshan Conservatories in China.

Born to a family of musicians in Tbilisi, Georgia – her father, Zurab Andjaparidze, the leading tenor with the Bolshoi Opera and mother, pianist Yvetta Bachtadze, a student of Alexander Iokheles from Konstantin Igumnov’s piano lineage – she studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Vera Gornostaeva, a student of Heinrich Neuhaus. The youngest participant, Andjaparidze received Fourth Prize at the Fifth Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow and was the first Soviet pianist to win Grand Prix at the Montreal International Piano Competition. She is honored by the Order of People’s Friendship, Order of Honor, and People’s Artist of Georgia titles.