Eteri Andjaparidze, Grammy and Deutsche Schallplatten awards nominee, winner of the Montreal and Tchaikovsky International Piano Competitions, and People’s Artist of Georgia, has performed around the globe in solo recitals, chamber programs, and as guest soloist with major orchestras and conductors.

Highlights of her international festival engagements have included Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, IKIF, Mannes Sounds Festival, NYU Summer Piano Intensive, Round Top Festival-Institute, PianoSummer at New Paltz, Los Angeles International Piano Symposium, Piano Festival Northwest, Apollo Music Festival, Puerto Rico International Piano Festival, Bermuda Piano Festival, Villa Sandra Piano Academy, Todi International Music Masters Festival, Festival International de Colmar, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Duszniki-Zdroj International Chopin Festival, White Nights, Russian Winter, Neuhaus Piano Festival, and Autumn Tbilisi Music Festival.

A Steinway Artist and a sought-after pedagogue in demand for masterclasses worldwide, she is a member of the piano artist faculty at NYU Steinhardt and Mannes School of Music. She has taught at DePaul University, SUNY, and Moscow and Tbilisi State Conservatoires.

Andjaparidze is founder and artistic director of various artistic/educational projects including AmerKlavier, the first piano performance studio named to the International Steinway Artists roster, PianoTheatre and Eteriani. She has curated the Beethoven the Contemporary festival and The Art of Piano series at NYU, and thematic programs for Mannes Sounds Festival and Baryshnikov Arts.

Born into a family of prominent musicians in Tbilisi, Georgia – her father, Zurab Andjaparidze, the leading tenor with the Bolshoi Opera, and mother, pianist Yvetta Bakhtadze, Andjaparidze was educated at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and Tbilisi Special Music School for Gifted Children. Her professional lineage stems from Heinrich Neuhaus and Konstantin Igumnov through her teachers Vera Gornostaeva, Yvetta Bakhtadze (her mother), and Meri Chavchanidze.