Ketevan Sharumashvili


Ketevan Sharumashvili
received her first professional piano lessons under D. Tsintsadze from 1999 to 2004 at the Zacharia Paliashvili music high school for gifted children. At the age of 14, she won first prize at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Paris, France. At the age of 15 she received the 3rd prize at the Greek Konzerteum piano competition in Greece, Piraeus, which was further enhanced by the gold diploma from the Fundación Eutherpe, Spain and the special prize from the Pianale, Germany.

From 2004 she studied at the Vano Saradjischwili State Conservatory, first under Prof. Nino Mamradze and later under Bejan Namgladze. In 2008 she was awarded a master's scholarship at the Tbilisi Conservatory by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. As the best student in pianist Eteri Anjaparidze's master class, she also received a scholarship. After completing her studies in Georgia, Ketevan received a full-time scholarship from the KAAD (Catholic Academic Foreigners Service).

On the way to the concert exam, the highest degree awarded by a music college, at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, she was accompanied by professors Ralf Nattkemper and Marian Migdal. She gained further experience during her postgraduate studies as a lecturer for numerous HfMT students. In 2013 she received additional lessons from Konstantin Scherbakov in Zurich. During her time in Hamburg, she attended master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Klaus Hellwig, Anatole Ugorsky, Chong No Kang and Boris Bermann, among others, to refine her pianistic qualities.

The offer of a master's scholarship led Ketevan to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) and thus to Naum Grubert and Jan Wijn. She completed her master's degree in 2016. Since then, Ketevan has lived in Amsterdam.

The concert-certified pianist Ketevan Sharumashvili is a winner of many international piano competitions. She has made guest appearances in concert halls in her home country of Georgia, in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.