Piano with Jemal T.

Teaching music for me is a form of a making music together. I approach teaching music as building personality rather than just working on skills. I learn a lot from my students as each has something unique to share and to express through music. I encourage my students to make decisions about musical choices in their performance. At the same time I am very much goal oriented tutor, planing ahead students progress, communicating with parents to maximize students motivation and development, approaching each student individually to choose the most appropriate strategy to achieve the best results. In addition to teaching solo piano performance I have teaching experiences in collaborative piano, theory, and composition. In my private studio I gave composition lessons as well as taught Music Theory for high school students preparing for entrance exams at Tbilisi State Conservatory. All my music theory students successfully passed entrance exams. As a composer I wrote music for many different theatrical performances in various drama theatres of my country like Academic Drama Theatre, Royal District Drama Theatre, State Youth Theatre and others. In 2013 I founded Tbilisi Klezmer Music Band which was the first Klezmer Band in Georgia. As a pianist I played many recitals both in my home country and abroad (Sweden, Germany, France, Italy and the U.S.) performing wide variety of repertoire both solo and with orchestra.