Eteri Andjaparidze has gained international recognition as one of the most insightful and versatile artists today. Her vast piano repertoire encompasses all genres and styles, and ranges from transparency of Baroque, and ardor of Romanticism, to swing and sparkle of Jazz Age. She has triumphed throughout the world with her incomparable renditions of Hammerklavier, Carnaval, and Kitten on the Keys, and has brought a unique personalization to the “standards” of such grandeur as concerti by Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

Ms. Andjaparidze was born into a family of prominent musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Her father, Zurab Andjaparidze was the leading tenor with the Bolshoi Opera. Her natural talents early evident, Eteri received her first piano lessons from her pianist mother, Yvette Bachtadze. At age 5, Eteri was enrolled in the Tbilisi Special Music School for Gifted Children. By the age of 9, she debuted in solo recital as well as a soloist with the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, Ms. Andjaparidze entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, where she earned her Master’s and Doctoral degrees under the guidance of Vera Gornostaeva, a student of legendary Heinrich Neuhaus.

Ms. Andjaparidze became the first Soviet pianist to win Grand Prix at the 1976 Montreal International Piano Competition. Two years earlier, when only a seventeen-year-old high school student, she won Fourth Prize at the Fifth Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. She was the youngest participant in both competitions, which launched her extensive performing career.

Ms. Andjaparidze has performed on the world’s most prestigious concert stages in solo and collaborative recitals, and as a guest soloist with major orchestras, including London Symphony, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Moscow Virtuosi, Russian State Symphony, Moscow Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and Georgian Symphony, under the baton of Franz-Paul Decker, James DePreist, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Gergiev, Djansug Kakhidze, Michel Plasson, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, and many others. Highlights of her international festival engagements have included Russian Winter, White Nights, Festival International de Colmar, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Piano Festival Northwest, International Piano Symposium, PianoSummer at New Paltz, International Festival-Institute at Round Top, and International Keyboard Festival and Institute in New York. In 1985, she made a historic appearance with Beijing and Shanghai Philharmonic symphony orchestras as the first Soviet artist to tour China following the renewal of the cultural exchange.

In 1992, upon being granted permanent residency in the United States as “an outstanding artist of extraordinary abilities”, Ms. Andjaparidze moved to New York City. That same year, her highly acclaimed orchestral debut in the United States was with the Oregon Symphony directed by James DePreist. A Steinway Artist, she presented tribute recital series in memory of Sergei Rachmaninoff at Steinway Hall in New York City, for three consecutive seasons of 1991-1993.

Ms. Andjaparidze’s discography is released on Naxos, Marco Polo, and Melodiya labels, featuring works of Scarlatti, Bach, Liszt, Reger, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Lyapunov, Rebikov, Prokofiev, Anderson, Confrey. Her album of Zez Confrey’s Piano Music on Naxos American Classics Series received 1999 Grammy Awards nomination in the category "Best Classical Instrumental Soloist Performance w/o Orchestra”, and her recording of Prokofiev’s Piano Music, Vol.1, was nominated for Deutsche Schallplatten Award. Her live performances are frequently broadcast on various tele- and radio programs in the USA and worldwide.

Deeply committed to educating young musicians, Ms. Andjaparidze has shared her professional inheritance and experience through conducting numerous masterclasses around the world. In addition to her ongoing performing career, she has taught at the Moscow and Tbilisi State Conservatoires, and the State University of New York. Since 2001, Ms. Andjaparidze has served as Professor of Piano and Head of the Keyboards Program at DePaul University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois, where she is also founder and artistic director of AmerKlavier concerts and colloquium series, offering myriads of thematic festivals and artistic-educational projects. Her AmerKlavier Studio, a unique model of advanced and comprehensive piano performance study at DePaul, is the first piano performance studio named to the International Steinway Artists roster. Her summer appointments as an artist-faculty have included International Keyboard Festival and Institute, New York City, International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas, PianoSummer at New Paltz, New York, Masterclasses International, Los Angeles, and Festival International de Colmar, France. She returns annually to present masterclasses as a guest faculty at Mannes College Festival, New York City, and Tbilisi Sarajishvili State Conservatoire, Georgia.

Ms. Andjaparidze is a recipient of International Friendship Order, Order of Honor, and People’s Artist of Georgia title, for her distinguished artistic and pedagogical accomplishments and significant contributions to music, arts, and culture.