Russudan Meipariani

Russudan Meipariani ( Georgian რუსუდან მეიფარიანი ; * 1975 in Tbilisi , Georgia ) is a Georgian composer .

Life

From 1994 to 1999 Russudan Meipariani studied piano with Manana Doidschaschwili at the Conservatory in Tbilisi, from 2000 to 2004 composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Karlsruhe University of Music and with Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. In 1998 she founded the Daphioni Piano Trio with her sister Natalie Meipariani and her husband Giga Khelaia, which performs with a classical program. She is also the co-founder of the freak-folk duo Veli Ulevi and the jazz-folk trio Trio NorgeO . She performs her own compositions - a “bridge between archaic singing and the structures of minimal music” - in the Russudan Meipariani Ensemble in a changing line-up. In 2002 she won the Pamina Composition Competition and in 2005 the Close Encounters Composition Competition. In 2008 she was artist in residence at Villa Sträuli in Winterthur. In 2009 she won the Creole World Music Competition Southwest.

Her debut album Lieder aus einer Insel was released in 2007, the second solo album Night Songs from an old City for prepared piano, toy piano and voice was released in 2019. Four compositions არ მინახავს შენი არე .. were released in 2020 as an EP, which she wrote for the Georgian male choir Ensemble Anchiskhati composed. Also in 2020 she released the single Sanftes Land together with Hans-Joachim Irmler .

Between 2008 and 2018 the Russudan Meipairani Ensemble performed the musical fairy tale The Girl on the Wind Wave at various locations in Germany and Switzerland . In 2018, a collaboration with the Giorgi Aleksidze Tbilisi contemporary Ballet led to the interdisciplinary performance Behind the Borders at several venues in southwest Germany.

Discography

• CD songs from an island (solo album)
• Night Songs from an old City (Solo album)
• არ მინახავს შენი არე .. (EP)
• Gentle Land (Single)

Web links

• Homepage of Russudan Meipariani
• Homepage of the Daphioni Piano Trio
• Homepage of the duo Veli Ulevi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ creole. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Meipariani in the laboratory : Night Thoughts from the old Tbilisi in the east. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Jeremias Heppeler: Musicians look at their homeland with melancholy. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Gentle Land, by Russudan Meipariani. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Ralph Halbig: MUSIC: Russudan Meipariani - Musician from Georgia (russudan-meipariani.com). In: GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS. April 11, 2010, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Georgia project in the Linden Museum: A small country is in the spotlight. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .