About

Violist Giorgi Zagareli Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1986. Studied viola at Tbilisi, Detmold, Leipzig and Basel Musik Hochschules. He has performed with such a famous artists as Gidon Kremer, Natalia Gutman, Andres Mustonen, Ariel Zuckermann, Marine Iashvili, Kolja Blacher, Boris Andrianov, Alexander Buzlov, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Ksenia Bashmet, Andreas Zlabys, Mikhail Muntian, Mark Bouchkov, Tigran Mansuryan, Elena Bashkirova, Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi, Anita Rachvelishvili, Beka Gochiashvili, international ballet star Nino Ananiashvili, etc. As a soloist he has collaborated with the Georgian and International Symphony Orchestras and Choirs.

In 2014 he has recorded Giya Kancheli’s “Miniatures for Viola and Piano” with Nikoloz Rachveli as dedicatees.

He is the first to have executed works for viola by Berio, Feldman, Xenakis, Stravinsky, Penderecki, Ligeti, Hindemith, Walton, Schnittke, Pärt, Mansurian, Kancheli and Bardanashvili in Georgia. Giorgi Zagareli world-premiered Sulkhan Nasidze’s Viola Concerto (1987) with the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008.

In January 2016 Giorgi Zagareli received Georgia’s most prominent state prize, the Tsinandali Award, for his brilliant performance of Giya Kancheli’s “Styx” with Nikoloz Rachveli and Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra at the Young Euro Classic Festival at Berlin Konzerthaus in August 2015.

During 2018-2020 Giorgi Zagareli was a guest solo violist of Grammy-Award winner chamber orchestra “Kremerata Baltica” led by Gidon Kremer.

Among all Giorgi collaborates with the various electronic, jazz, post punk, indie and hip hop artists.