8th Mozart Competition
The Jury
Valerian Shiukashvili - Artistic Director
Pianist, founder and General Director of Nodar Gabunia International Piano Competition, General Director of Art Academy Georgia, director of UG Music Academy, Valerian Shiukashvili participated in many international music festivals and competitions. He serves as a jury member for various National and International piano competition and festivals. He had performances as a soloist and also with orchestras in Georgia, Russia, Japan, Israel and other countries.
Tamara Poddubnaya - Chairperson of the Jury
Professor and Dean of Music Department at Long Island Conservatory of Music, New York. She has adjudicated as a chairperson numerous international competitions and festivals, held master classes and performed all over the world. She was a co-founder of "Peter the Great Festival" in Netherlands, Portland International Piano Festival, "Music without Borders" International Piano Festival at Gould Academy, Bethel, ME. She is a holder of the Golden Muse and Si. Sophia Awards in Bulgaria.
Stanislaw Tichonow
besides his career as pianist and musicologist, prof. Tichonow currently serves as professor on the piano faculty of the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, Austria; before that at Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow and at Conservatory Vienna (Private University). He intensively performs chamber music as founder of his own Leschetizky Trio of Vienna, holds lectures, and gives masterclasses throughout Europe, the U.S and in the Far East. His students have won more than 90 prizes at international competitions in Italy, France, Finland, Portugal, the U.S., Iran, Spain, Czech Republic, Russia and Austria.
Tinatin Gambashidze
Laureate of international trio competitions, co-founder of EVRUS Piano Trio, professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The pianist became known through numerous solo performances with a number of orchestras.
Margar Sedrakyan
Famous pianist, piano teacher and lecturer at the Piano Department of Yerevan State Conservatory, head of the Piano Department at Sayat-Nova specialized music school. Winner of several international piano competitions, he had performances in Armenia, Russia, England, Japan, USA, Germany and Slovenia, he had been a member and a chair of the jury of national and international piano competitions.
Zizi Naskidashvili
Active tacher and music theorist, Zizi Naskidashvili had particopated in, co-founded and served as a jury member at local, national and international music festivals and competitions. Her students have obtained honors in piano competitions in Thessaloniki and Larissa.
Ma Li
Associate professor of Nanjing University of the Arts，director of the Asian Flute Union, executive director of Jiangsu Wind Music Association.
Nino Gurevich
Active performer, Nino is also holding a position at the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater" in Munich (Dozentur Korrepetition) as well as at the Leopold Mozart Center at the University of Augsburg.
Meri Zhvania, flute
Maia Janjgava, violin
Tamar Sarvazishvili, singing