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'''Liana Alexandres asuli Isakadze''' ({{lang-ka|ლიანა ისაკაძე}}, {{lang-ru|Лиана Александровна Исакадзе}}, {{lang-de|Liana Isakadse}}; 2 August 1946 – 5 July 2024) was a prominent [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] [[violin]]ist and [[conducting|conductor]]. Following a career as a violin soloist with leading orchestras throughout Europe, she served as conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia from 1981 and in 1988 was recognized as the [[People's Artist of the USSR]], then the youngest musician in the history of the Soviet Union to obtain that title.<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Mikaberidze" /><ref name="Mariinsky" />
'''Liana Alexandres asuli Isakadze''' ({{lang-ka|ლიანა ისაკაძე}} ''liana isak’adze''; {{lang-ru|Лиана Александровна Исакадзе|Liana Aleksandrovna Isakadze}}; {{lang-de|Liana Isakadse}}; 2 August 1946 – 5 July 2024) was a Georgian violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, she was supported and trained by [[David Oistrakh]]. She won the 1970 [[International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition]], which brought her international recognition. Following a career as a violin soloist with leading orchestras throughout Europe, she served as conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia from 1981. In 1988 she was recognized as the [[People's Artist of the USSR]], then the youngest musician in the history of the Soviet Union to obtain that title.<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Mikaberidze" /><ref name="Mariinsky" /> She moved with the chamber orchestra to [[Ingolstadt]], Germany, in 1990, where over five years she conducted them in performances and recordings, playing as a soloist. She founded and directed there the David Oistrakh Academy of String Instruments.


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Born in Tbilisi<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> on 2 August 1946,<ref name="Strad" /> the capital of then-Soviet [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], Isakadze entered music school at the age of seven. Taught by {{ill|Leo Shiukashvili|ge}},<ref name="Strad" /> she excelled and played with the State Symphonic Orchestra at age nine.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> In 1956 she played her first solo violin recital. In 1956 she took part in the [[Moscow]] International Festival Competition. While too young to compete, she performed the full program. The chairman of the festival, [[David Oistrakh]], insisted that she graduate from the Central Musical School a year early because she had been accepted in his class at the Moscow State Conservatory without having to take the entrance exam.<ref name="Strad" />
Born in Tbilisi<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> on 2 August 1946,<ref name="Strad" /> the capital of then-[[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Georgia]], Isakadze entered music school at the age of seven. Taught by {{ill|Leo Shiukashvili|ka|ლევან შიუკაშვილი}},<ref name="Strad" /> she excelled and played with the State Symphonic Orchestra at age nine.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> In 1956 she played her first solo violin recital. In 1956 she took part in the [[Moscow]] International Festival Competition. While too young to compete, she performed the full program. The chairman of the festival, [[David Oistrakh]], insisted that she graduate from the Central Musical School a year early because she had been accepted in his class at the Moscow State Conservatory without having to take the entrance exam.<ref name="Strad" />


After her studies Isakadze worked as Oistrakh's assistant for two years and simultaneously studied in his master class. She played in his orchestra when he conducted the violin concertos [[Violin Concerto (Beethoven)|by Beethoven]] and [[Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)|Tchaikovsky]].<ref name="Issakadze" />
After her studies Isakadze worked as Oistrakh's assistant for two years and simultaneously studied in his master class. She played in his orchestra when he conducted the violin concertos [[Violin Concerto (Beethoven)|by Beethoven]] and [[Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)|Tchaikovsky]].<ref name="Issakadze" />


From 1964 to 1981<ref name="Issakadze" /> she played a [[Stradivarius]] violin which was a gift from the State Violin Collection in Moscow.<ref name="Strad" /> In 1965 she was awarded the Grand Prix at the [[Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition]] in Paris. In 1970 she participated at the [[International Tchaikovsky Competition|Tchaikovsky Competition]] in Moscow and achieved third place. In 1970 she took part in the second [[International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition]] in Helsinki<ref name="Strad" /> where she shared the first prize with [[Pavel Kogan (conductor)|Pavel Kogan]], which resulted in international recognition.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" />
From 1964 to 1981<ref name="Issakadze" /> she played a [[Stradivarius]] violin which was a gift from the State Violin Collection in Moscow.<ref name="Strad" /> In 1965 she was awarded the Grand Prix at the [[Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition]] in Paris. In 1970 she participated at the [[International Tchaikovsky Competition|Tchaikovsky Competition]] in Moscow and achieved third place. In 1970 she took part in the second [[International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition]] in Helsinki<ref name="Strad" /> where she shared the first prize with [[Pavel Kogan (conductor)|Pavel Kogan]], which resulted in international recognition.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> She was awarded a special prize for performing the [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto]] by Sibelius there.<ref name="Forsling" />


[[File:Aankomst Russisch Staatsorkest op CS Amsterdam. Maxim Sjostakowitsj , Liana Isak, Bestanddeelnr 920-8812.jpg|thumb|left|Isakadze greeted with flowers in [[Amsterdam]], 1967, pictured with [[Maxim Shostakovich]] and [[Yevgeny Svetlanov]]]]
[[File:Aankomst Russisch Staatsorkest op CS Amsterdam. Maxim Sjostakowitsj , Liana Isak, Bestanddeelnr 920-8812.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|Isakadze greeted with flowers in [[Amsterdam]], 1967, pictured with [[Maxim Shostakovich]] and [[Yevgeny Svetlanov]]]]
Beginning in 1965 she played as a violin soloist with conductors such as [[Jiri Kout]], [[Paavo Berglund]], [[Vladimir Verbitsky]], [[Jiří Bělohlávek]], [[Valery Gergiev]], [[Yehudi Menuhin]], [[Eri Klas]], [[Aleksandr Dmitriyev (conductor)|Aleksandr Dmitriyev]], [[Kurt Masur]], [[Thomas Sanderling]], [[Michail Jurowski]], [[Jukka-Pekka Saraste]], [[Hiroyuki Iwaki]], [[Rudolf Kempe]], [[Václav Neumann]], [[Mariss Jansons]], [[Yan Pascal Tortelier]], [[Herbert Blomstedt]], [[Gintaras Rinkevičius]], [[Neeme Järvi]], [[Dmitry Liss]] and [[Charles Dutoit]].<ref name="Issakadze" />
Beginning in 1965 she played as a violin soloist with conductors such as [[Jiri Kout]], [[Paavo Berglund]], [[Vladimir Verbitsky]], [[Jiří Bělohlávek]], [[Valery Gergiev]], [[Yehudi Menuhin]], [[Eri Klas]], [[Aleksandr Dmitriyev (conductor)|Aleksandr Dmitriyev]], [[Kurt Masur]], [[Thomas Sanderling]], [[Michail Jurowski]], [[Jukka-Pekka Saraste]], [[Hiroyuki Iwaki]], [[Rudolf Kempe]], [[Václav Neumann]], [[Mariss Jansons]], [[Yan Pascal Tortelier]], [[Herbert Blomstedt]], [[Gintaras Rinkevičius]], [[Neeme Järvi]], [[Dmitry Liss]] and [[Charles Dutoit]].<ref name="Issakadze" />


She was [[concertmaster]] of the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia for several years,<ref name="Violin Channel" /> and its chief conductor and artistic director in 1981.<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /><ref name="Violin Channel" /> She had the idea to create festivals "Musicians are Joking", and held them from 1982 to 1989. From 1983 Isakadze was artistic director of various international festivals, such as in [[Eichstädt]] (Germany), "Night Serenades" in [[Pitsunda]] (Abkhazia/Georgia), Open Air Festival in [[Batumi]] (Georgia), the Festival of Arts in [[Borjomi]] (Georgia)<ref name="Strad" /> and the Liana Isakadze Festival in Vienna and Lichtenstein.<ref name="Mariinsky" /><ref name="Violin Channel" /> In 1990, she and the Chamber Orchestra of Georgie relocated to [[Ingolstadt]], supported by the town, [[Audi]] and the Government of Georgia, to open new venues of performance for the orchestra.<ref name="Mariinsky" /> She founded and directed there the David Oistrakh Academy of String Instruments.<ref name="Mariinsky" /><ref name="Violin Channel" />
She was [[concertmaster]] of the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia for several years,<ref name="Violin Channel" /> and its chief conductor and artistic director in 1981.<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /><ref name="Violin Channel" /> She had the idea to create a festival named "Musicians are Joking", and held them from 1982 to 1989. From 1983 Isakadze was artistic director of various international festivals, such as in [[Eichstädt]] (Germany), "Night Serenades" in [[Pitsunda]] (Abkhazia/Georgia), Open Air Festival in [[Batumi]] (Georgia), the Festival of Arts in [[Borjomi]] (Georgia)<ref name="Strad" /> and the Liana Isakadze Festival in Vienna and Lichtenstein.<ref name="Mariinsky" /><ref name="Violin Channel" /> In 1990, she and the Chamber Orchestra of Georgie relocated to [[Ingolstadt]], supported by the town, [[Audi]] and the Government of Georgia, to open new venues of performance for the orchestra.<ref name="Mariinsky" /> She founded and directed there the David Oistrakh Academy of String Instruments.<ref name="Mariinsky" /><ref name="Violin Channel" />


She played chamber music with [[Gustav Rivinius]], [[Alexander Slobodyanik]], [[Maxim Vengerov]], [[Barbara Hendricks]], [[Gidon Kremer]], [[Franz Hummel]], [[Natalia Gutman]], [[Grigori Zhislin]], [[Alexander Rudin]], [[David Geringas]], [[Frida Bauer]], [[Maria Yudina]], [[Igor Oistrakh]], [[Dmitri Alexeev (pianist)|Dimitri Alexeev]], [[Ivan Monighetti]], [[Eduard Brunner]], [[Yuri Bashmet]], [[Alexander Kniazev]], [[Alexei Lubimov]], [[Justus Frantz]], [[Arto Noras]], [[Dmitry Sitkovetsky]], [[Viktor Tretiakov]] and many others.<ref name="Issakadze" />
She played chamber music with [[Gustav Rivinius]], [[Alexander Slobodyanik]], [[Maxim Vengerov]], [[Barbara Hendricks]], [[Gidon Kremer]], [[Franz Hummel]], [[Natalia Gutman]], [[Grigori Zhislin]], [[Alexander Rudin]], [[David Geringas]], [[Frida Bauer]], [[Maria Yudina]], [[Igor Oistrakh]], [[Dmitri Alexeev (pianist)|Dimitri Alexeev]], [[Ivan Monighetti]], [[Eduard Brunner]], [[Yuri Bashmet]], [[Alexander Kniazev]], [[Alexei Lubimov]], [[Justus Frantz]], [[Arto Noras]], [[Dmitry Sitkovetsky]], [[Viktor Tretiakov]] and many others.<ref name="Issakadze" />


Isakadze became artistic director of a new Georgian State Chamber Orchestra in 1995,<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell interview" /> a position she held it until 2004.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> In 2009 she formed a Chamber Orchestra of Young Musicians of Southern and [[Eastern Europe]].<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /><!-- The [[German Foreign Ministry]] provided the support for this undertaking.--> After 2011, she formed an ensemble – orchestra "Virtuosi from Facebook". The musicians who took part in this venture were famous musicians from various countries and they are Friends of Facebook. Its first performances took place at the Liana Isakadze Festivals of "Friends of Facebook" and "Night Serenades" in August 2011 in Batumi (Georgia).<ref name="Issakadze" /><ref name="Mariinsky" />
Isakadze became artistic director of a new Georgian State Chamber Orchestra in 1995,<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell interview" /> a position she held it until 2004.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> In 2009 she formed a Chamber Orchestra of Young Musicians of Southern and [[Eastern Europe]].<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /><!-- The [[German Foreign Ministry]] provided the support for this undertaking.--> After 2011, she formed an ensemble – orchestra "Virtuosi from Facebook". The musicians who took part in this venture were famous musicians from various countries and their friends on Facebook. Its first performances took place at the Liana Isakadze Festivals of "Friends of Facebook" and "Night Serenades" in August 2011 in Batumi (Georgia).<ref name="Issakadze" /><ref name="Mariinsky" />


From March 1989 to December 1991, Isakadze was also a People's Deputy of the Soviet Union.<ref name="Strad" /> She was awarded the title of [[People's Artist of the USSR]] (1988), Meritorious Artist of the Georgian SSR (1970), the State Prize of Georgia (1975, 1983, 2002), and the [[Order of Honour (Georgia)|Order of Honour of Georgia]] (1998, 2002).<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Awards" /><ref name="Cummings" />
From March 1989 to December 1991, Isakadze was also a People's Deputy of the Soviet Union.<ref name="Strad" /> She was awarded the title of [[People's Artist of the USSR]] (1988), Meritorious Artist of the Georgian SSR (1970), the State Prize of Georgia (1975, 1983, 2002), and the [[Order of Honour (Georgia)|Order of Honour of Georgia]] (1998, 2002).<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Awards" /><ref name="Cummings" />


=== Personal life ===
=== Personal life and death ===
Isakadze lived in Ingolstadt from 1990 for five years, working there with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> She lived at times in [[France]], in Paris, [[Grasse]]<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> and Cannes.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell interview" /> Her last residence was Tbilisi. She suffered from dementia in her last years.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" />
Isakadze lived in Ingolstadt from 1990 for five years, working there with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> She lived at times in [[France]], in Paris, [[Grasse]]<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /> and Cannes.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell interview" /> Her last residence was Tbilisi. She suffered from dementia in her last years.<ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" />


Isakadze died in Tbilisi on 5 July 2024, at the age of 77.<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /><ref name="NPLG" /><ref name="LTV" />
Isakadze died in Tbilisi on 5 July 2024, at the age of 77.<ref name="Strad" /><ref name="Schulze-Reimpell" /><ref name="NPLG" /><ref name="LTV" />

== Recordings ==
Isakadze recorded [[Aleksi Machavariani]]'s Violin Concerto in 1977 with the [[USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Vakhtang Machavariani]]. I reviewer described her as "up to the technical demands" in a style of post-war Russian tradition.<ref name="Barker" /> In 1980 and 1981 she recorded two contrasting concertos with the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by [[Alexander Lazarev]], the [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto]] by Sibelius and Arnold Schoenberg's [[Violin Concerto (Schoenberg)|Violin Concerto]], Op. 36.<ref name="Forsling" /> A reviewer who had admired her ferocious rendering of Vivaldi's ''[[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|The Four Seasons]]'' in concert, wrote that she was at the height of her power, "digging into a work with such earnestness and such devotion that the music feels at times over-sized".<ref name="Forsling" /> He noted that her approach "adds a dimension that is hard to define but attracted me with the same intensity as those Vivaldi concertos all those years ago".<ref name="Forsling" />

During the 1990s she recorded in Ingolstadt with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia, working as soloist, arranger and conductor. They recorded works by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] in 1992, ''[[Souvenir de Florence]]'', ''[[Souvenir d'un lieu cher]]'', ''[[Valse-Scherzo (Tchaikovsky)|Valse-Scherzo]]'', and [[Sérénade mélancolique]].<ref name="Tchaikovsky" /> The same year they recorded compositions by Georgian composers, [[Otar Taktakishvili]] Violin Concerto, {{ill|Sulkhan Nasidze|de|Sulchan Nassidse}}'s Double Concerto for violin and cello, {{ill|Nodar Gabunia|de}}'s Symphony No. 3 "Giocconda", and [[Sulkhan Tsintsadze]]'s ''Phantasie'', with cellist Natascha Mandenova.<ref name="Taktakishvili" /> In 1997 they recorded works by [[Tigran Mansurian]], his Cello Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and the Violin Concerto, with [[Ivan Monighetti]] as the cellist.<ref name="Mansurian" />

Her recording of [[Alfred Schnittke]]'s Violin Sonata No. 2 "Quasi una sonata", with pianist Vladimir Skanavi, was included in an anniversary edition of Schnittke's music in 2020.<ref name="Muziekweb" />


== References ==
== References ==
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<ref name="Barker">{{cite web
| last = Barker
| first = David J
| date = October 2007
| url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Oct07/MATCHAVARIANI_download.htm
| title = Alexi Matchavariani (1913–1995) / Concerto for violin and orchestra
| website = musicweb-international.com
| access-date = 10 July 2024
}}</ref>


<ref name="Cummings">{{cite book
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| page = 307
| page = 307
| isbn = 0-948875-53-4
| isbn = 0-948875-53-4
}}</ref>

<ref name="Forsling">{{cite web
| last = Forsling
| first = Göran
| date = March 2015
| url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Mar/Sibelius_VC_MELCD1002221.htm
| title = Contrasts / Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) / Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor Op. 47 / Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) / Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op. 36
| website = musicweb-international.com
| access-date = 9 July 2024
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


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| last = Mikaberidze
| last = Mikaberidze
| first = Alexander
| first = Alexander
| title = Liana Issakadse
| title = Liana Isakadze
| encyclopedia = Historical Dictionary of Georgia
| encyclopedia = Historical Dictionary of Georgia
| publisher = [[Rowman & Littlefield]]
| publisher = [[Rowman & Littlefield]]
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| language = ge
| language = ge
| access-date = 5 July 2024
| access-date = 5 July 2024
}}</ref>

<ref name="Mansurian">{{cite web
| title = Mansurian, T.Y.: Cello Concerto No. 2 / Double Concerto / Violin Concerto (Isakadze, Monighetti, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra)
| url = https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=C415971A
| work = [[Naxos (company)|Naxos]]
| date = 2024
| access-date = 10 July 2024
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


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| language = ru
| language = ru
| access-date = 5 July 2024
| access-date = 5 July 2024
}}</ref>

<ref name="Muziekweb">{{cite web
| title = Anniversary edition / Alfred Schnittke
| url = https://www.muziekweb.nl/en/Link/ECX1825/Anniversary-edition?WorkID=U00000595486
| work = [[Muziekweb]]
| date = 2024
| access-date = 10 July 2024
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


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| date = 8 July 2024
| date = 8 July 2024
| access-date = 8 July 2024
| access-date = 8 July 2024
}}</ref>

<ref name="Taktakishvili">{{cite web
| title = Orchestral Music – Taktakishvili, O. / Nasidze, S. / Gabunia, N. / Zinzadse, S.-F. (Mandenova, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Issakadze)
| url = https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=C304921A
| work = [[Naxos (company)|Naxos]]
| date = 2024
| access-date = 10 July 2024
}}</ref>

<ref name="Tchaikovsky">{{cite web
| title = Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Souvenir de Florence (arr. L. Issakadze for strings) (Issakadze, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra)
| url = https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=C307921A
| work = [[Naxos (company)|Naxos]]
| date = 2024
| access-date = 10 July 2024
}}</ref>
}}</ref>


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* {{discogs artist|Liana Isakadze}}
* Kilbey, Paul: [https://bachtrack.com/review-nov-2013-mcs-isakadze-kivimieni Liana Isakadze and Kalevi Kiviniemi meet in London] (review) bachtrack.com 27 November 2013
* Kilbey, Paul: [https://bachtrack.com/review-nov-2013-mcs-isakadze-kivimieni Liana Isakadze and Kalevi Kiviniemi meet in London] (review) bachtrack.com 27 November 2013
* {{youtube|r92ZMCxTMRs|Liana Isakadze playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (excerpt)}}


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Liana Isakadze
ლიანა ისაკაძე
Isakadze in 1967
Born(1946-08-02)2 August 1946
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR,
Soviet Union
Died5 July 2024(2024-07-05) (aged 77)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Occupations
OrganizationChamber Orchestra of Georgia

Liana Alexandres asuli Isakadze (Georgian: ლიანა ისაკაძე liana isak’adze; Russian: Лиана Александровна Исакадзе, romanized: Liana Aleksandrovna Isakadze; German: Liana Isakadse; 2 August 1946 – 5 July 2024) was a Georgian violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, she was supported and trained by David Oistrakh. She won the 1970 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, which brought her international recognition. Following a career as a violin soloist with leading orchestras throughout Europe, she served as conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia from 1981. In 1988 she was recognized as the People's Artist of the USSR, then the youngest musician in the history of the Soviet Union to obtain that title.[1][2][3] She moved with the chamber orchestra to Ingolstadt, Germany, in 1990, where over five years she conducted them in performances and recordings, playing as a soloist. She founded and directed there the David Oistrakh Academy of String Instruments.

Life and career

Born in Tbilisi[4] on 2 August 1946,[1] the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, Isakadze entered music school at the age of seven. Taught by Leo Shiukashvili [ka],[1] she excelled and played with the State Symphonic Orchestra at age nine.[4] In 1956 she played her first solo violin recital. In 1956 she took part in the Moscow International Festival Competition. While too young to compete, she performed the full program. The chairman of the festival, David Oistrakh, insisted that she graduate from the Central Musical School a year early because she had been accepted in his class at the Moscow State Conservatory without having to take the entrance exam.[1]

After her studies Isakadze worked as Oistrakh's assistant for two years and simultaneously studied in his master class. She played in his orchestra when he conducted the violin concertos by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.[5]

From 1964 to 1981[5] she played a Stradivarius violin which was a gift from the State Violin Collection in Moscow.[1] In 1965 she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris. In 1970 she participated at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and achieved third place. In 1970 she took part in the second International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki[1] where she shared the first prize with Pavel Kogan, which resulted in international recognition.[4] She was awarded a special prize for performing the Violin Concerto by Sibelius there.[6]

Isakadze greeted with flowers in Amsterdam, 1967, pictured with Maxim Shostakovich and Yevgeny Svetlanov

Beginning in 1965 she played as a violin soloist with conductors such as Jiri Kout, Paavo Berglund, Vladimir Verbitsky, Jiří Bělohlávek, Valery Gergiev, Yehudi Menuhin, Eri Klas, Aleksandr Dmitriyev, Kurt Masur, Thomas Sanderling, Michail Jurowski, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Rudolf Kempe, Václav Neumann, Mariss Jansons, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Herbert Blomstedt, Gintaras Rinkevičius, Neeme Järvi, Dmitry Liss and Charles Dutoit.[5]

She was concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia for several years,[7] and its chief conductor and artistic director in 1981.[1][4][7] She had the idea to create a festival named "Musicians are Joking", and held them from 1982 to 1989. From 1983 Isakadze was artistic director of various international festivals, such as in Eichstädt (Germany), "Night Serenades" in Pitsunda (Abkhazia/Georgia), Open Air Festival in Batumi (Georgia), the Festival of Arts in Borjomi (Georgia)[1] and the Liana Isakadze Festival in Vienna and Lichtenstein.[3][7] In 1990, she and the Chamber Orchestra of Georgie relocated to Ingolstadt, supported by the town, Audi and the Government of Georgia, to open new venues of performance for the orchestra.[3] She founded and directed there the David Oistrakh Academy of String Instruments.[3][7]

She played chamber music with Gustav Rivinius, Alexander Slobodyanik, Maxim Vengerov, Barbara Hendricks, Gidon Kremer, Franz Hummel, Natalia Gutman, Grigori Zhislin, Alexander Rudin, David Geringas, Frida Bauer, Maria Yudina, Igor Oistrakh, Dimitri Alexeev, Ivan Monighetti, Eduard Brunner, Yuri Bashmet, Alexander Kniazev, Alexei Lubimov, Justus Frantz, Arto Noras, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Viktor Tretiakov and many others.[5]

Isakadze became artistic director of a new Georgian State Chamber Orchestra in 1995,[8] a position she held it until 2004.[4] In 2009 she formed a Chamber Orchestra of Young Musicians of Southern and Eastern Europe.[4] After 2011, she formed an ensemble – orchestra "Virtuosi from Facebook". The musicians who took part in this venture were famous musicians from various countries and their friends on Facebook. Its first performances took place at the Liana Isakadze Festivals of "Friends of Facebook" and "Night Serenades" in August 2011 in Batumi (Georgia).[5][3]

From March 1989 to December 1991, Isakadze was also a People's Deputy of the Soviet Union.[1] She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1988), Meritorious Artist of the Georgian SSR (1970), the State Prize of Georgia (1975, 1983, 2002), and the Order of Honour of Georgia (1998, 2002).[1][9][10]

Personal life and death

Isakadze lived in Ingolstadt from 1990 for five years, working there with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia.[4] She lived at times in France, in Paris, Grasse[4] and Cannes.[8] Her last residence was Tbilisi. She suffered from dementia in her last years.[4]

Isakadze died in Tbilisi on 5 July 2024, at the age of 77.[1][4][11][12]

Recordings

Isakadze recorded Aleksi Machavariani's Violin Concerto in 1977 with the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vakhtang Machavariani. I reviewer described her as "up to the technical demands" in a style of post-war Russian tradition.[13] In 1980 and 1981 she recorded two contrasting concertos with the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev, the Violin Concerto by Sibelius and Arnold Schoenberg's Violin Concerto, Op. 36.[6] A reviewer who had admired her ferocious rendering of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in concert, wrote that she was at the height of her power, "digging into a work with such earnestness and such devotion that the music feels at times over-sized".[6] He noted that her approach "adds a dimension that is hard to define but attracted me with the same intensity as those Vivaldi concertos all those years ago".[6]

During the 1990s she recorded in Ingolstadt with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia, working as soloist, arranger and conductor. They recorded works by Tchaikovsky in 1992, Souvenir de Florence, Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Valse-Scherzo, and Sérénade mélancolique.[14] The same year they recorded compositions by Georgian composers, Otar Taktakishvili Violin Concerto, Sulkhan Nasidze [de]'s Double Concerto for violin and cello, Nodar Gabunia [de]'s Symphony No. 3 "Giocconda", and Sulkhan Tsintsadze's Phantasie, with cellist Natascha Mandenova.[15] In 1997 they recorded works by Tigran Mansurian, his Cello Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and the Violin Concerto, with Ivan Monighetti as the cellist.[16]

Her recording of Alfred Schnittke's Violin Sonata No. 2 "Quasi una sonata", with pianist Vladimir Skanavi, was included in an anniversary edition of Schnittke's music in 2020.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Violinist and Conductor Liana Isakadze Has Died". The Strad. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  2. ^ Mikaberidze, Alexander (2015). "Liana Isakadze". Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 370.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Liana Isakadze". Mariinsky Theatre (in Russian). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Schulze-Reimpell, Jesko (6 July 2024). "Liana Issakadse ist tot: Geigerin brachte das Georgische Kammerorchester nach Ingolstadt". Donaukurier [de] (in German). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Liana Issakadze / Geigerin". lianaisakadze.com. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d Forsling, Göran (March 2015). "Contrasts / Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) / Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor Op. 47 / Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) / Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op. 36". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d "Violinist Liana Isakadze Has Died, Age 77". The Violin Channel. 5 July 2024. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  8. ^ a b Schulze-Reimpell, Jesko (15 October 2010). ""Ingolstadt ist für mich ein Stück Heimat"". Donaukurier [de] (in German). Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Liana Isakadze / Awards". lianaisakadze.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
  10. ^ Cummings, David M. (2000). International Who's Who in Music. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 307. ISBN 0-948875-53-4.
  11. ^ "ლიანა ისაკაძე (1946–2024)". www.nplg.gov.ge (in ge). 5 July 2024. Archived from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  12. ^ "გარდაიცვალა ლიანა ისაკაძე". ltv.ge (in ge). 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  13. ^ Barker, David J (October 2007). "Alexi Matchavariani (1913–1995) / Concerto for violin and orchestra". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Souvenir de Florence (arr. L. Issakadze for strings) (Issakadze, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra)". Naxos. 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  15. ^ "Orchestral Music – Taktakishvili, O. / Nasidze, S. / Gabunia, N. / Zinzadse, S.-F. (Mandenova, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Issakadze)". Naxos. 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Mansurian, T.Y.: Cello Concerto No. 2 / Double Concerto / Violin Concerto (Isakadze, Monighetti, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra)". Naxos. 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Anniversary edition / Alfred Schnittke". Muziekweb. 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
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