Eteri Andjaparidze is a Georgian and American pianist and music teacher, born on 15 September 1956 in Tbilisi. She is the daughter of singer Zurab Andjaparidze and music teacher Ivetta Bakhtadze.
She began studying music with her mother and with Mary Chavchanidze, and made her concert debut at the age of eight. At sixteen she won the Transcaucasian Competition for Young Musicians in Baku, after which she was invited to the Fifth International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1974, where she shared fourth prize with András Schiff.
Before that competition she received консультаtions from Vera Gornostaeva, and later studied under her at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1979 and completing postgraduate studies in 1981. In 1976 she won the Montreal International Performers Competition.
From 1981 to 1991 Andjaparidze was a professor at the Tbilisi Conservatory. In 1989 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR.
Since 1991 she has lived and worked in the United States, teaching at various institutions, including DePaul University and Mannes College. She became a citizen of the United States in 2000.
Among Andjaparidze's recordings are works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Sergei Prokofiev. In 2000 her album of compositions by Zez Confrey was nominated for a Grammy Award.
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