Solo in Tbilisi

My fourth solo piano recording was recorded in the country of Georgia during a teaching trip to the State Conservatory in Tbilisi.

Elizaveta Ilyinichna Leonskaya (born November 23, 1945, Tbilisi) is a Soviet and Austrian pianist and teacher.

For decades now, Elisabeth Leonskaja has been among the most celebrated pianists of our time. In a world dominated by the media, Elisabeth Leonskaja has remained true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, who never wavered in their focus on the quintessence of music despite working in a very difficult political environment.

Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 23 November 1945) (In Russian: Елизавета Ильинична Леонская) is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 23 November 1945) (In Russian: Елизавета Ильинична Леонская) is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Thematic albums are rated by many classical musicians who seem to suffocate in the throes of their universe filled with intimidating masterpieces. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili invites us to follow her on an autobiographical journey describing musically the places and important memories of her life and career from her native Georgia through Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Hollywood.

Roman Bulakhov - bright representative of the new wave of the modern jazz scene today. Guitarist/producer, who not afraid to experiment and combine radically opposite musical genres. Was born in the city of Severodonetsk, Ukraine, in 1992 in a family of musicians. Graduated from the Kharkiv Musical College as a jazz guitarist but became widely known in Eastern Europe as part of the Ukrainian rock band . In 2018, released his debut album - an experimental mixture of acoustic jazz with electronic samples, which launched his jazz career as a solo guitarist. In 2019 became the only Ukrainian and one of the main artists for D'Angelico Guitars.

The Armenian and Georgian composer Sarkis Vasil’evich Barkhudarian is famed for his piano miniatures. Some are among the first piano works to use Armenian folk themes as the basis for a series of original compositions. His colourful and unusual harmonies, created by the sinuous, interweaving modes of Armenian music, are immediately attractive and his miniatures, whether full of grace or pungent dance rhythms, bear out Glazunov’s admiration of his ‘sincerity, elegance and harmony of form’.