Georgian Project Shorena Tsintsabadze & Sandro Nebieridze

• Zakharia Paliashvili (1871 - 1933): The Elegy:
• 1 Paliashvili: The Elegy 03:02
• Aleksi Machavariani (1913 - 1995): Khorumi:
• 2 Machavariani: Khorumi 03:59
• Revaz Lagidze (1921 - 1981): Rondo-Toccata:
• 3 Lagidze: Rondo-Toccata 04:31
• Otar Taktakishvili (1924 - 1989): The Poem:
• 4 Taktakishvili: The Poem 06:06
• Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925 - 1991): Prelude No. 6 in B minor:
• 5 Tsintsadze: Prelude No. 6 in B minor 01:24
• Bidzina Kvernadze (1928 - 2010): Musical Moment No. 2:
• 6 Kvernadze: Musical Moment No. 2 01:32
• Vazha Azarashvili (1936 - 2024): Nostalgia:
• 7 Azarashvili: Nostalgia 03:05
• Giya Kancheli (1935 - 2019): 33 Miniatures for Piano:
• 8 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: King Lear 00:55
• 9 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Eccentrics 01:09
• 10 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: When Almonds Blossomed 01:56
• 11 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Unusual Exhibition 00:42
• 12 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: As you like it 02:03
• 13 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Kin-Dza-Dza 01:39
• 14 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Mimino 02:40
• 15 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Mother Kurazh 00:41
• 16 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Twelfth Night 01:10
• 17 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Blue Mountains 01:11
• 18 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Khanuma 00:52
• 19 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Caucasian Chalk Circle 01:22
• 20 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Role of a Beginner 00:34
• 21 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Caucasian Chalk Circle 02:03
• 22 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Don't Grieve 01:02
• 23 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Bear's Kiss 01:24
• 24 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Earth, This is Your Son 01:40
• 25 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Cinema 00:58
• 26 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Caucasian Chalk Circle 00:56
• 27 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: The Role of a Beginner 01:14
• 28 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Sunny Night 01:05
• 29 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Mother Kurazh 01:33
• 30 Kancheli: 33 Miniatures for Piano: Romeo and Juliet 02:46
• Sandro Nebieridze (b. 2001): Allegroba:
• 31 Nebieridze: Allegroba 03:26
• Total Runtime 58:40

Info for Georgian Project

For Georgian pianist Shorena Tsintsabadze, there is no more beautiful place in the world than her homeland.

With this album, she would like to present the music of Georgian composers from different eras, from the 19th century to the present day, in order to give an impression of how compositional traditions have changed and how Georgian classical music has developed.

Born in Moscow to a family of musicians, Shorena Tsintsabadze began her musical career in early age with her mother. In 2015 Shorena Tsintsabadze founded "Young Musicians International Association of Georgia." The primary mission of organization is to help young talented musicians with the motivation, to support in creativity and career advancement and has been instrumental in starting the Georgian Youth Symphony Orchestra (2017) and the Georgian Orchestra Academy in 2019.

Shorena Tsintsabadze, piano
Sandro Nebieridze, piano - Allegroba

Shorena Tsintsabadze
born in Moscow in the family of musicians, Shorena Tsintsabadze began her musical career in early age with her mother. She graduated the Moscow Conservatory academic music college and Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of the People’s Artist of Russia, professor Z.A. Ignatyeva, who represented the class of outstanding pianist, Professor S.E. Finberg. During this period she became a prize-winner at the International Piano Competitions, such as: the Classical Heritage Association International Competition (Moscow, 1999), the Grand International Piano Competition (Paris, 1999), the Ibla grand Prize (Italy, 2000), where Shorena won the special Jordanian Prize for “Outstanding Musicianship and Talent”. In 2000 the American label “Angelok” recorded the works by S.Rachmaninoff as her first CD with the Russian Federal Orchestra lead by Maestro V. Jordania.

In 2008 Shorena Tsintsabadze, signed the contract with The World’s Leading Classical Music Label “Naxos” and recorded the masterpieces by S.M. Lyapunov with the Russian Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by D. Yablonsky. In 2010 her album with works by S.M. Lyapunov included all his Piano concertos, Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, for piano & orchestra, Op. 28. Steven J Haller (American Record Guide, March 2011) stated in its review of the album that “Moscow-born Shorena Tsintsabadze seems born to play this music; she embraces it like Van Cliburn did the Tchaikovsky, warmly lyrical and impassioned and blessed with a wide-ranging span of the keyboard from full bass register to glittering, yet never clattery top end.”. Also, The Guardian reported “The performances are terrific, with monumental playing from Shorena Tsintsabadze …” “Moscow-born pianist Shorena Tsintsabadze catches the fire and the poetry of the music, meets its pyrotechnical demands with relative ease and imparts a wonderful sense of imagination to her interpretations.” wrote Robert Cummings (Classical Net, January 2011). Ian Lac (MusicWeb International) mentioned that “…Tsintsabadze brings to bear a light and delicate poetic touch with unbridled passion reserved for the Concerto’s climactic passages.”

In 2015 HBDirect.com introduced Tsintsabadze’s album in the list of the Best Selling Naxos CDs.

In 2013 she made post-graduate studies of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Professor, People’s Artist of Russia Sergei L. Dorensky, who has mentioned Shorena as a “Brightly presented pianist with unlimited technical abilities and bright individuality.”

During the study in Dorensky’s class she had permanent consultancies with such outstanding musicians as Nikolai Lugansky, Andrey Pisarev, Pavel Nersessian and Liza Ginzburg (daughter of outstanding musician and pianist Grigory Ginzburg). She performed at the world’s major concert halls and collaborated with renowned conductors and Orchestras. She has appeared in broadcasts on TV and radio of Russia, USA, Canada and Europe, etc.

In 2015 Shorena Tsintsabadze has founded “Young Musicians International Association of Georgia.” The primary mission of organization is to help young talented musicians with the motivation, to support in creativity and career advancement, for which the organization is planning various events in the future. In this regard, some of the first and important achievement is the establishment of “Music International Summer Academy” known as “MISA” (misa.ge) in 2015, Georgian Youth Symphony Orchestra (2017) and “Georgian Orchestra Academy” in 2019.

In 2019 Shorena Tsintsabadze has recorded the masterpieces by Schumann, Brahms and Chopin and signed the contract with The Exquisite Classic Label – ARS Produktion.

Booklet for Georgian Project