An Introduction to Georgian Art Music

Nana Sharikadze, PhD, is a musicologist, Associate Professor and the Rector of the V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia. She has published 40 articles focused on 20th century music, totalitarian regimes and music, and the music of the cold war. Sharikadze‘s research has been supported by the Georgian President Scholarship (2002-2004), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2012), the Polish Institute of Culture in Tbilisi (2018, 2019) and the Thesaurus Poloniae scholarship program (2022). She is a member of the Georgian Composers and Musicologists National Union, and was a member of the Higher Educational Institutions Authorization Council of Georgia (2017-2018). In 2022, she was awarded the silver Medal to Merit Culture Gloria Artis for the development of Georgian-Polish cultural relationships by the order of the Minister of Culture of Poland.