Music, Birmingham City University
Thesis title:
Maurice Ravel’s piano works include some of the most demanding pieces of the piano repertoire within an aesthetic of French refinement and clarity. My practice-led research will aim to investigate purely pianistic problematics concerning the complex interaction of virtuosity, sonority and expression. Looking beyond his immediate French contemporaries and forebears, it will place Ravel’s music in the context of the Grand Tradition, notably Franz Liszt.
Adopting a reflective practitioner approach, the intention of this project is to use performance as a vehicle for interrogating how Ravel’s pianism operates in itself and in relation to the virtuosity of the Grand Tradition.
Midlands4Cities Research Festival June, 2022
Inside/Out Research Festival January, 2022
PgCert Research Festival December, 2021
Student Advisory Forum Representative for Birmingham City University, 2022
Midlands Music Research Network, Since 2021
Chopin Society of Warsaw "Stowarzyszenie Smolna", Since 2017
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 2019-2020
Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Piano Performance (UK Level 8 Doctorate)
Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw 2017-2018
Postgraduate Artistic Training in Piano Performance
Academy of Music in Krakow 2015-2017
Master of Music (Piano)
Tbilisi State Conservatoire 2010-2014
Bachelor of Music (Piano)
International Education Center of Georgia Scholarship 2022-2025
Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Award 2021-2025
Anthony Cross Memorial Prize 2020
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Full Scholarship Award 2019-2020
Bradshaw Bursary at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 2019-2020
Scholarship for the highest-ranking students at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire 2010-2014
Georgian Presidential Scholarship 2010-2012
Tbilisi State Conservatoire Full Scholarship 2010-2014
Georgian
English
French
Russian
Polish
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