Eliso Virsaladze

Eliso Virsaladze might not have name acknowledgement of several of her key pad contemporaries, but she actually is being among the most extremely respected performers of her era, specifically among fellow pianists, both recent and present. Sviatoslav Richter, for instance, touted her as the best possible Schumann interpreter of her period. Besides Schumann, Virsaladze established fact on her behalf Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev. She also frequently shows up in chamber music concerts with such performers as Natalia Gutman as well as the Borodin Quartet. Since 1967 she’s trained music, and among her college students are Boris Berezovsky and Aleksandar Madzar. Virsaladze offers made several recordings for such brands as Melodiya and EuroArts. Eliso Virsaladze was created in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1942. At eight she started pianos lessons with her grandmother, an exceedingly talented pianist and music instructor. Virsaladze’s advanced research were on the Tbilisi Conservatory, where her grandmother trained, as well as the Moscow Conservatory. Among her various other notable teachers had been Heinrich Neuhaus and Yakov Zak. In 1962 Virsaladze inserted the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and captured third award. Four years afterwards she won initial prize on the 1966 Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, Germany. Virsaladze started teaching on the Moscow Conservatory in 1967, getting full teacher in 1994. Steadily she constructed her concert profession with regular travels across European countries, the U.S., SOUTH USA, Japan, and Australia. She also made an appearance frequently in chamber music shows, though her collaborations with Natalia Gutman didn’t begin before past due ’70s. Virsaladze also produced frequent performances at music celebrations, including on the Moscow-based Dec Nights Festival, arranged by Richter. Virsaladze’s 1973 documenting from the Schumann Second Sonata and 1980 documenting of the Initial Sonata, on Melodiya, both drew important acclaim, and she implemented them with a spate of various other documenting successes. In 1989 Virsaladze was presented with the prestigious name of People’s Musician from the U.S.S.R. In 1995 Virsaladze became a member of the faculty on the Hochschule für Musik und Movie theater in Munich, a posture she still retains along with her Moscow post. In the brand new century, Virsaladze continued to be energetic on all fronts. Her 2003 appearance on the 300th wedding anniversary Gala Concert in St. Petersburg, where she provided a scorching functionality from the Ravel Concerto for the Remaining Hand, was released with an acclaimed EuroArts Dvd and blu-ray in 2004. Virsaladze frequently acts as a juror at essential international piano contests. Included in this was the exclusive 2010 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.