NANA SHARIKADZE (Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia)
25 September @14.30-16.00 in A-103

Nana Sharikadze is Associate Professor and Rector of the V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Her research and teaching is focused on XX century music, totalitarian regimes and music. Participates in the various national/international conferences; Her research has been supported by the DAAD (2012), Georgian President Scholarship (2002-2004), Polish Institute of Culture in Tbilisi (2018, 2019) and Thesaurus Poloniae scholarship program (2022). She was an invited lecturer at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a member of Georgian Composers and Musicologists National Union.

Nana Sharikadze is a frequent speaker on the problems of higher art education through AEC, Diku. She was a member of the authorization council for higher educational institutions of Georgia (2017-2018). Chairman of the Sectoral Council for Higher Education in Music and Performing Arts (2022-2024) at the national center for educational quality enhancement of Georgia. In 2022 she was awarded the silver medal „Gloria Artis” by the order of the Minister of culture of Poland for the development of the Georgian-Polish cultural relationships.