Nino Jvania

Nino Jvania ( Georgian ნინო ჟვანია , actually: Nino Schwania ; * 1975 in Tbilisi , Georgia ) is a Georgian pianist.

Life

Nino Jvania received her first piano lessons at the age of five when she was accepted into the "Experimental Music School for Gifted Children". From 1993 to 1998 she studied piano with Nana Khubutia at the W. Sarajishwili State Music Academy in Tbilisi, and under her leadership she won several national competitions. It comprised the four disciplines of solo interpreter, accompanist, chamber soloist and teacher. In 1998 she passed her music diploma with distinction and after a two-year postgraduate course with a focus on solo interpretation, she switched to Christian Beldi at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf as a DAAD scholarship holder (major in piano, minor in musicology; postgraduate studies from 2003). During her studies, the pianist received the Schmolz-Bickenbach Prize from the city of Düsseldorf twice .

Since 2000 she has taken part in the Stockhausen courses and performed some piano pieces under the sound direction of Karlheinz Stockhausen , which aroused a great interest in the music of the 20th century, especially new music. This led the pianist to the International Competition for Contemporary Music in Orléans, the Orleans International Piano Competition of 20th Century Music, where she was awarded 3 prizes, including 2nd prize. In 2003 she received a scholarship from the International Ensemble Modern Academy, after returning to Georgia in 2005, she did her doctorate on piano music by Karlheinz Stockhausen. At the same time she was employed as an assistant professor at the Tbilisi State University of Music.

Nino Jvania is a member of the "Association of Young Georgian Composers and Musicologists" and has appeared in 3 films on Georgian television about Georgian folk songs ("Trio with the two siblings").

Prices

1995: 2nd prize piano accompanist competition, Tbilisi
1997: 2nd Prize Etude Competition, Tbilisi
2000: Schmolz-Bickenbach-Preis (chamber music), Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
2001: Schmolz Bickenbach Prize (soloist), Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf
2002: 2nd prize in the international competition for contemporary music, Orléans
2002: 1st prize for accompaniment, international competition for contemporary music, Orléans
2002: 1st prize for a contemporary work from the 2nd half of the 20th century, International Competition for Contemporary Music, Orléans

Individual evidence

^ Laureates list Orleans
↑ Dissertation in full text (Georgian)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Jvania, Nino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	ჟვანია, ნინო (Georgian); Schwania, Nino (Georgian transcribed)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Georgian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tbilisi , Georgia

[1] Laureates list Orleans

[2] Dissertation in full text (Georgian)