Eteri Andzhaparidze |

Eteri Andzhaparidze

Eteri Anjaparidze was born into a musical family in Tbilisi. Her father, Zurab Anjapiaridze, was a tenor at the Bolshoi Theater, and her mother, who gave Eteri her first music lessons, was a brilliant pianist. Eteri Anjaparidze played her first concert with the orchestra at the age of 9.

“When you listen to Eteri Anjaparidze,” a reviewer of the magazine “Musical Life” noted in 1985, it seems that playing the piano is easy. Nature gave the artist not only a bright temperament, spiritual openness, but also a natural pianism, although brought up in labor. The combination of these qualities explains the attractiveness of the performing image of Anjaparidze.

The pianist’s artistic path began brilliantly; having won the fourth prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition (1974), two years later she became the winner of a very respectable competition in Montreal. But this was the time when Anjaparidze was only taking her first steps at the Moscow Conservatory under the guidance of V.V. Gornostaeva.

Following the footsteps of the Moscow competition, its jury member E.V. Malinin wrote: “The young Georgian pianist has an excellent pianistic talent and self-control enviable for her age. With excellent data, she, of course, lacks so far artistic depth, independence, and conceptuality.

Now we can say that Eteri Anjaparidze has developed and continues to develop in this direction. Having retained the natural harmony, the pianist’s handwriting acquired a certain maturity and intellectual content. Indicative in this regard is the mastering by the artist of such significant works as Beethoven’s Fifth Concerto. Third Rachmaninov, sonatas by Beethoven (No. 32), Liszt (B minor), Prokofiev (No. 8). During his tour performances both in our country and abroad, Anjaparidze increasingly turns to the works of Chopin; it is Chopin’s music that constitutes the content of one of her monographic programs.

The artistic success of the artist is also associated with Schumann’s music. As the critic V. Chinaev emphasized, “the virtuosity in Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes is not surprising today. It is much more difficult to recreate the artistic truth of the romantic feelings contained in this work. Anjaparidze’s playing has the ability to capture, to lead, you believe it … Passion of feelings is at the heart of the pianist’s interpretation. Her emotional “colors” are rich and juicy, their palette is rich in various intonation and timbre shades.” With enthusiasm masters Andzhaparidze and spheres of Russian piano repertoire. So, in one of the Moscow concerts, she presented Scriabin’s Twelve Etudes, Op. eight.

In 1979, Eteri Andzhaparidze graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and until 1981 she improved with her teacher V.V. Gornostaeva as an assistant trainee. Then she taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory for 10 years, and in 1991 she moved to the USA. In New York, Eteri Anjaparidze has taught at New York University in addition to her concert work, and since 1996 she has been the musical director of America’s new Special School for Gifted Children.

Grigoriev L., Platek Ya.