Date & Place of Birth

May 23, 1971. Tbilisi

Closest Anniversary Date

2026 will mark 55 years since birth.

Education

(School, Teacher)

1977-1983 - Experimental school at V. Sarajishbili Tbilisi State Conservatoire -Teachers: Ruben Kazhiloti (composition) and Tinatin Zautashvili (piano);

1984-1989 - Z. Paliashvili Tbilisi Central Music School (“Ten-Year Music School for the Talented”), Teachers: Nino Mamradze (piano), Mary Davitashvili (composition), Natela Togonidze (theory);

1990-1995 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition and Musicology faculty, composition class of Bidzina Kvernadze, Lia Dolidze (music history);

1994-1996 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition, and Musicology faculty;

1996-1998 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition and Musicology faculty; assistantship, internship, composition class of Nodar Mamisashvili; 3-month course of composition lessons with Mikheil Shugliashvili;

2009-2011 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition and Musicology faculty; assistantship, a doctorate in composition, composition class of Nodar Mamisashvili;

2009-2011 - Dissertation supervisor Marika Nadareishvili;

Geographic Location of Work

Tbilisi, Switzerland, Holland, Ukraine, Germany, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia

Place of Work & Position

1998 - Young Composers and Musicologists Association co-founder and member; 

2013-present - Contemporary Professional Music Art Development Center; - co-founder and co-director (co-director Eka Chabashvili);

2001-2007 - Non-governmental organization Human Resource Development Fund,  leading instructor of creative workshops;

2006-2007 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition and Musicology faculty, Composition department guest;

2007 - present - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition and Musicology faculty, assistant professor of composition department;

2006 - present - Z. Paliashvili Tbilisi Central Music School (“Ten-Year Music School for the Talented”), music theory studies and composition teacher;

2007 - present -  Z. Paliashvili Tbilisi Central Music School (“Ten-Year Music School for the Talented”), head of the composition department;

2010 - present - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Seminary,  music theory studies and composition teacher;

2013 - present - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Associate Professor of Composition;

2013-2014 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire,  Dissertation board scientific secretary;

2014-2022 - V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Composition and Musicology Faculty Dean.

Field of Work

Compositional Works:

Symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, choral, film music, theater music, vocal-instrumental, ballet, solo-piano.

Ancestors & Family Members

Father - Mikheil Virsaladze 1938 (physician, neuropathologist, doctor of medicine);

Mother - Svetlana Jijikhia 1938-2018 (musicologist);

Sister - Dinara (Dini) Virsaladze (jazz musician, pianist);

Nephew - Rostom Baratashvili

Spouse - Mukhran (Mamuka) Shervashidze (architect);

Son - Luka Shervashidze (psychology student);

Descendants / Heirs

Luka Shervashidze

Location of Research Material

Personal archive; V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Library; National Parliamentary Library of Georgia; Swiss publishing company Sordino; Sheet music archive of Simon Camartin