PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth:
October 6, 1936 Place of birth: Tbilisi, Georgia,
Nationality:
Georgian
Email
: marina.mdivani@mcgill.ca
Profession: Concert
Pianist & Piano
Teacher
Diplomas: Moscow
Conservatory graduated 1960
Post
graduate:
Moscow Conservatory, 1963, as
à
pianist & piano teacher
Teachers:
Yvgenia
Tchernyawskaya,
Jacob
Milstein, Åmil
Gilels
Languages: Georgian, Russian,
English, French, Spanish
À WARDS
-Premier Grand Prix, Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud, Paris 1961
- Tchaikowsky
International Competition,
Fourth Prize, Moscow, 1962
- People's Artist, Republic of Georgia
- Travel grants from McGill University
and Faculty of Music in 1995,1999,2001,2003,2005 & 2007
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CONCERT
TOURS
Canada: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver,
Ottawa etc.
Chilie
Ñubà
Czechoslavakia
Finland
France : Paris, Nice, Mentons etc.
Germany
Hungary
Jamaica
Mexico
Marocco
Peru
Poland
Rumania
Turkey
USA: New York (Carnegie Hall), Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles etc.
USSR: Moscow,
Leningrad etc.
Yugoslavia
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TEACHING
In terms of her
pedagogic achievements, Marina Mdivani embodies
à
tradition of pianistic art beginning in the St.
Petersburg Conservatory in the nineteenth century with
Anton Rubinstein, through Puishnoff,
Ìizandari,
Tcherniyawskaya, Milstein and
Åmil
Gilels
.
-In
1987-90, Ms. Mdivani taught in the Conservatory in
Aleppo, Syria.
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In summer of 1987, Marina Mdivani gave master classes in
Kariu, Finland.
- In 1995, Marina
Mdivani gave master classes in Tbilisi, Georgia.
-In
1999, Ms. Mdivani gave master classes and
à
lecture describing the current music program at McGill University for Vladimir Spivakov
International Charity Foundation in Moscow.
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In 2001, Ms. Mdivani gave International master classes in Moscow, Saratov and Tbilisi
for Vladimir Spivakov Internatioanal Charity Foundation.
-In
2003, Ms. Mdivani gave master classes in Moscow and St.
Petersburg
-In
2005 and 2007 Ms.Mdivani gave master classes for
Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation in
Moscow.
-In 2008 Ms. Mdivani gave master
classes for spiritual and cultural center of
Abkhazia |
JUDGING
In 1976 Marina Mdivani was
à jury member
for the Villà
Lobos Competition in Brazil, and in 1976, 1977 and 1978
she was the head of the jury for the stated |
examination in piano and
chamber music at the Conservatory in Tbilisi, Georgia.
In 1995, Ms. Mdivani was the
president of jury of National Georgian Competition in
Òbilisi.
In 2001, Marina Mdivani was
the president of final graduation
åõàm in Saratov
Conservator
PERÌANENT POSIÒION
1966-1992 Principal
Soloist of Moscow Philharmonic Society
1992- Present
Associate Professor(piano) at Schulich School
of Music, McGill University , Montreal, Canada
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ÑÍÀÌÂÅR ÌUSIC
Trio with Liana Isakadze(pupil of David Oistrakh) and Tamara
Gabarashvili (pupil of Rostropovich)
Duo with Tarnara Gabarashvili, Liana Isakadze, Marina
Jashvili, Yevgeny Plavutsky, Valentin Zhuk, Vladimir
Lantsman and Anatoly Katz |
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REPERTOIRE
Arensky Piano
Concerto. Bach Piano Concerto in D
Ìinor. Beethoven Piano
Concertos NN 1.2 and 3
Brahms Piano
Concertos NN 1, 2 . Haydn Piano
Concertos in D Major
and G Major Liszt Piano
Concertos NN 1 and 2
Mendelssohn Piano
Concerto in G Minor
Prokofiev Piano
Concertos NN 1,2,3,4 & 5
Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos NN 1,2,3, 4
and Rapsody, Schumann
Piano Concerto
Shostakovich Piano
Concerto Nl
Taktakishvili Piano
Concertos NN 1,2 and 4
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto N1
Solo repertoire
includes works by
Bach, Beethoven, Brahrns, Busoni, Debussy, Gubaidulina,
Haydn, Hindemith, Kefadis, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Ovchinnikov, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Regger,
Schnittke,Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Stravinsky and
Tchaikovsky
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ORCÍESTRAS
Academic Orchestra of Moscow
Philharmonic
Belgrade and
Budapest
Symphony Orchestras |
Berlin Radio Orchestra |
Concert Colonne and Orchestre Larnoureux
Georgian State Orchestra
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Leningrad Academic Orchestra
Ottawa Symphony Orchestra
Philadelphia Charnber Orchestra
Saarbrucken Symphony Orchestra
USSR State Orchestra
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Victoria Symphony Orchestra |
CONDUCTORS
Serge Baudo Victor Barsov
Pierre Dervaux Odissey Dimitriadi
Victor Dubrovsky
Veronica Dudarova
Laszlo Gati
Mark Ermler
Jemal Gokieli Jansug Kakhidze
Konstantin Ivanov Jansug Kakhidze
Neeme Jarvi Lile Kiladze
Zakhari Khurodze Dmitry Kitaenko
Ari Klass Valentin
Kozhin
Otto Werner Mueller Genady Rozhdestvensky
Yevgeny Plawutsky Eduard Serov
Youri Simonov
Jan Spiller
Vasily Sinaisky Richard Schumacher
Yevgeny Svetlanov Michael Yurovsky
Otar Taktakishvili Mariss
Yansons
Aarvid Yansons Algirdas Zhuraitis
Algis Domarkes
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