Karine Georgian is a Soviet, Russian and Armenian musician-cellist and music teacher, born on 5 January 1944 in Moscow.
From 1949 she studied cello under the guidance of her father, Armen Georgian, a teacher at the Gnesins Musical-Pedagogical Institute. In 1967 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied cello in the class of Mstislav Rostropovich.
From 1970 she was a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic. She toured abroad in countries including England, the United States, Canada, Sweden, East Germany and Poland. She was a prize-winner at several cello competitions: the All-Russian Competition in 1961 (third prize), the All-Union Competition in 1965 (first prize), and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966 (first prize).
From 1980 she lived in London. From 1983 she taught at a music school in Detmold, Germany. Since 2003 she has been a teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Her discography includes recordings of Robert and Clara Schumann, Bach's suites and gamba sonatas, Kodály, Brahms's cello sonatas, Brahms's Clarinet Trio, chamber works by John Ireland, music by Martinů, Sofia Gubaidulina's Seven Words, contemporary works for cello and accordion, and sonatas by Shostakovich and Britten.
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