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Manana Kantaria

| Sakartvelo (Georgia)

Manana Kantaria studied at the V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire from 1980 to 1985 and graduated with honors diploma. She is also laureate of the Transcaucasian Competition (1976, Yerevan). She is actively engaged in playing as soloist, performing chamber music, lecturing. Currently holds the position of associate professor at the V. Sarajishvili State Conservatoire in Tbilisi, and has been holding the position of the chair of String Department at the Zakaria Paliashvili Central Music School (since 2017) both at the Evgeni Mikeladze Central Music School (since 2012) in Tbilisi. Needless to say that her students have been successfully entering and winning various international competitions around the globe.

Manana Kantaria has been member of the jury board in many national and international competitions, such as the International Friendship Festival, Republican Festival of Classical Music Stars of Future, Music Competition The Key of a Violin, Yerevan Festival of Friendship Harmony, International Competition-Festival Harmony in Turkey, Evgeny Mikeladze National Competition, ART-DUO Music Festival in Prague, and many more. For successful pedagogic work and active engagement in work as the jury member, she has received many diplomas, praises and letters of appreciation.

She is also founder and director of the Georgian Musicians’ Union. In 2016, Manana established Young Musicians-Performers Competition-Festival Rondo Klasika, of which artistic director she is. In 2017, she founded and became the artistic director of International Competition for Strings and Woodwind, and in 2018, she held the first Otar Taktakishvili International Competition in Tbilisi. Also in 2019, she organized the first Marine Iashvili International Competition in Tbilisi. Manana has conducted numerous masterclasses in Sakartvelo, Armenia, Turky, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, and has been performing annually on the stage of Tbilisi Chamber Music Festival since 2005, in piano trios, quartets and quintets.