Liana Isakadze (Violin soloist)
Violinist and Conductor Internationally renowned Georgian
violinist Liana Isakadze has been acclaimed as one of the greatest performers of
the century. Her name features in the encyclopaedia 2000 Outstanding Musicians,
published in 2002 by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge.
In 1965 the eighteen-year-old Liana Isakadze was awarded 1st prize and
the Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud International Competition.
In 1970 she was a prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in
Moscow (3rd prize) and took 1st prize and the Special Prize for the best
performance of a work by Jean Sibelius at the Sibelius International Competition
in Helsinki. Liana Isakadze began to appear as a conductor in 1981 when she
was invited to join the State Chamber Orchestra of Georgia as Artistic Director
and Principal Conductor.
Since then the orchestra has won tremendous
international acclaim. From 1990–1997 in accordance with an agreement between
Audi and Liana Isakadze and with the support of the authorities in Ingolstadt
(Germany) the orchestra became based there. This allowed Liana Isakadze to
expand the geography of her recitals and offer the orchestra the opportunity at
perform at the world’s most prestigious venues. In 1998 the orchestra returned
to its native land where it was directed by Liana Isakadze until 2005.
In Ingolstadt Liana Isakadze founded the David Oistrakh Academy of
String Instruments. She has also established numerous international festivals,
among them Night Serenades (Georgia-Germany), Musicians Joking (Tbilisi-Moscow),
the Arts Festival in Borjomi and the Liana Isakadze Festival in Vienna and
Lichtenstein.
In 2011 she founded the Virtuosos of Facebook orchestra
and the Friends of Facebook international festival. The first concerts of this
festival took place in Batumi (Georgia). Liana Isakadze has been awarded the
honorary titles of People’s Artist of Georgia and
People’s Artist of the
USSR (at the time, she was the youngest musician ever to receive the title).
Moreover, Liana Isakadze has received the State Prize of Georgia on three
occasions. In 2003 St Petersburg hosted the Liana Isakadze International Violin
Competition.
Numerous documentary films have been made about Liana
Isakadze in Georgia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Japan and Russia. In 2011
outside the Tbilisi Philharmonic, Liana Isakadze’s Honorary Star was unveiled.
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