Recipient of the Republic of Georgia’s highest national decoration, People’s Artist of Georgia, the pianist Eteri Andjaparidze was born into a family of musicians in Tbilisi. Her father, Zurab Andjaparidze, was a leading tenor with the Bolshoy Theatre and her mother, from whom she received her first lessons, a distinguished pianist. After training at the Tbilisi Special School of Music for Gifted Children, she had given her first public recital and made her first appearance as a soloist with the orchestra by the age of nine. First Prize in the Transcaucasian Competition in Baku in 1972 was followed by entry, as the youngest competitor, in the Fifth Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1974, when she was awarded Fourth Prize. There followed advanced study at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and in 1976 the award of the Grand Prix at the Montreal International Piano Competition. Eteri Andjaparidze has, since then, enjoyed a career of considerable distinction, appearing as a recitalist and as a soloist with major orchestras in Russia and abroad and teaching for some ten years at the Georgia State Conservatory.

In 1991 she moved to the United States of America and has made her home in New York, where, in addition to concert engagements, she teaches as an artist-affiliate on the Faculty of Purchase College of New York State University and in 1996 became music director of the Special School of America for Gifted Children.