Tamriko Siprashvili

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Tamriko Siprashvili

Tamriko Siprashvili (also Tamara Siprashvili , Russian Сипрашвили, Тамара , scientific transliteration Siprašvili, Tamara , * 1963 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian-American classical pianist and music teacher who lives in Pleasanton , California. In 1985 Siprashvili won the International Robert Schumann Competition in the city of Zwickau.

life and work

Tamriko started playing the piano at the age of three. At the age of 5, she entered the special school for gifted children in Tbilisi, which was then one of only four in the whole of the Soviet Union. At the age of 17 she went to the Moscow Conservatory . After graduating from this conservatory in 1985 in the class of Mikhail Voskresensky , Siprashvili won the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau that same year.

Tamriko has given concert tours in Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In Moscow, she performed in the Great Hall (her favorite concert hall) and in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. She has performed with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (her favorite orchestra) in Germany, the Toscanini Orchestra in Italy, the Tbilisi Philharmonic in her native Georgia and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.

In 1990 she took part in the Leeds International Pianist Competition. Here she met the American pianist Mark Anderson . They both married in 1993. Until 1997 the couple lived in London. Then they moved to Pleasanton, California. From 1994 until their divorce in 2009, Siprashvili and Anderson performed as a piano duo, including Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps in transcriptions for two pianos. In 2009, Siprashvili opened the Inspire Academy of Music and Arts in Pleasanton . Tamriko Sipraschwili is a Steinway artist.

Siprashvili is known for her romantic repertoire, especially that of Robert Schumann . She has recorded several albums for the Nimbus Records label, including Variations on a Theme from Chopin Opus 22 and Variations on a Theme from Corelli opus 42 by Sergei Rachmaninoff .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tamriko is the Georgian form of the maiden name Tamara.
  2. ^ Schumann Competition Zwickau: Prize winner Tamara Sipraschwili. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ markandersonpianist.com: Mark Anderson. Retrieved September 21, 2018 . See there the sound carrier release of the piano duo Siprashwili, Anderson.
  4. ↑ Inspire Music Academy (Tamriko Siprashvili): Inspire Academy of Music and Arts. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Steinway & Sons: Steinway artists (list). Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Siprashvili, Tamriko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siprashvili, Tamara; Siprashvili, Tamriko; Siprashvili, Tamara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian-American classical pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi