Zurab Sotkilawa

Zurab Sotkilawa
Zurab Sotkilawa (2016)
Personnel
Surname	Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilawa
birthday	March 12, 1937
place of birth	Sukhumi ,  Georgian SSR , Soviet Union
date of death	18th September 2017
Place of death	Moscow ,  Russia
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1951-1955	Dinamo Sukhum
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1955	Dinamo Tbilisi
1956	FShM Tbilisi
1958-1959	Dinamo Tbilisi
1 Only league games are given.

Zurab Sotkilawa ( Georgian ზურაბ სოტკილავა , Russian Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава * 12. March 1937 in Sukhumi ; † 18th September 2017 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Georgian football player , opera tenor , professor at the Moscow Conservatory and winner of the title People's Artist of the USSR .

biography

education

Sotkilawa graduated from the Georgian Polytechnic Institute in Tbilisi in 1960 .

Football career

Sotkilawa has played football since childhood. At the age of 16 he was signed by Dinamo Sukhum as a defender. In 1956 he was captain of the Georgian national team and two years later from Dinamo Tbilisi club , where he had been under contract in 1955 for one season. In 1958 he suffered a knee injury at a game in Yugoslavia, which led to the end of his sporting career the following year.

Music career

In 1965 Sotkilawa completed his vocal training under David Andguladze at the Conservatory in Tbilisi. From 1965 to 1974 he was a soloist at the Sacharia Paliaschwili Theater in Tbilisi. From 1966 to 1968 he studied under Diaro Barra at La Scala in Milan . Sotkilawa later became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory , where he taught until 1988. He was chairman of the PI Tchaikovsky International Competition and a member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna . Sotkilawa was particularly known for his interpretation of the works of Giuseppe Verdi .

Pedagogical career

1976–1988 Sotkilawa taught at the Moscow Conservatory , since 1987 as a professor of solo singing. In 2002 he took up his professorship again.

death

He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015 . He died in September 2017 at the age of 80, leaving behind his wife, Eliso Turmanidze, and two daughters.

Former students

• Ksenia Leonidova

Roles at the Bolshoi Theater

• Il trovatore - Manrico
• Tosca - Cavaradossi
• Iolanta - Vaudemont
• Aida - Radames
• Sadko - merchant from India
• The Abduction of the Moon - Arzakan
• Un ballo in maschera - Riccardo
• Cavalleria rusticana - Turiddu
• La molinara [it] - Don Caloandro
• Boris Godunov - Grigory Otrepjew, pretender, the false Dmitri
• Khovanshchina - Galitzine
• Nabucco - Ismaele

Awards

• 1968: Main Prize of the Golden Orpheus Festival (Bulgaria)
• 1970: 2nd prize in the Tchaikovsky competition
• 1970: Honorary Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1971: Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
• 1973: People's Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1976: Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• 1983: People's Artist of the USSR
• 1997: Order of Honor (Georgia)
• 1998: Schota Rustaveli State Prize
• 2001: Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th class
• 2007: Order of Merit for the Fatherland 3rd class
• 2008: Ovation (Russia)
• 2012: Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation
• Honorary member of the Accademia Filarmonica , Bologna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profiles at Footballfacts.ru
2. ↑ Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава / Zurab Sotkilava profile , peoples.ru; visited 12/23/2019.
3. ↑ Биография Зураба Соткилавы . March 12, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Московская государственная консерватория имени П. И. Чайковского (Russian) . Moscow Conservatory . Retrieved December 25, 2019.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Zurab Sotkilava . Bolshoi Theater . Retrieved December 23, 2019.
6. ↑ Биография Зураба Соткилавы , peoples.ru; visited 12/23/2019.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Состав академии: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава , independent-academy.net; visited 12/23/2019.
8. ↑ Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского - Педагоги - Соткилава Зураб Лаврентьевич , mosconsv.info, visited December 23, 2019