Date of birth, place

September 09, 1926, Akhaltsikhe (Georgia).

Date of death, place

November 17, 2017, Tbilisi (Georgia) (Passed away at the age of 91)

Burrial place

Saburtalo Pantheon, Tbilisi

Nearest Anniversary Date

2026 - Centenary celebration

2027 - 10 years after death

Educatio (School, Teacher)

1944 - Graduated with honors from Tbilisi First Women’s Secondary School;
1942–1944 - Completed the preparatory composition course of the Pedagogical and Production Practice Department at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire (teacher: A. Shaverzashvili; with honors);
1944–1950 - Graduated from the Theoretical and Composition Faculty of the V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire  (under the guidance of Andria Balanchivadze);

Geographic data of activity

Tbilisi (Georgia), Moscow (Russia);

Work plac (position)

From 1956 to 1972, and from 1979 onward - taught at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute;

From 1969 – Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, senior teacher;

From 1989 - Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, docent;

From 1991 - Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, professor;

She served as the chairman of the State Examination Commission for Composition at the Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory on several occasions;

Creative Field

Composer works: Opera, orchestral, vocal-symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, choral music;

Scientific-methodical work: "An attempt at interdisciplinary teaching of the cycle of music-theoretical subjects at the Department of Musical Disciplines of the Theater Institute."

Ancestors / family members / Descendant

Father - Damian Svanidze (doctor );

Mother – Agrafina Svanidze-Kordzaia (doctor);

Spouse – Petre Tomadze (1917 – 1996) - tenor singer, teacher, soloist of the Z. Paliashvili Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Honored Artist of Georgia (1961);

Spouse - Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev  (1937 – 202) - scientists, ethnomusicologist,  chairman of the Folklore Commission of the Union of Soviet Composers  (1972 -1992), a director of the department of the General Theory of Folklore at the Moscow State Institute of Art Studies, a member of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM, 1987), a vice-president of the Academy of Spirituality of the Sakha Republic (1996-97). Alekseyev led multiple ethnographic expeditions to Yakutia, Abkhazia, Adygeia, Adzharia, Altai, Bashkiria, Belarus, Buryatia, the Crimea, Kalmykia, Kirghizia, the Krasnodar Territory, Mongolia, Tuva, Uzbekistan, and West Georgia and Svanetia. Dr. Alekseyev is the author of many musical works, including the opera "Song about Manchary" (co-author German Komrakov, performed at the Yakutsk Theater for Opera and Ballet in 1967, 1972, 1997, 2014) and over 100 ethnomusicological publications.

Doughter - Maia Tomadze 1954.06.26 – 1994.12.18 (soprano singer, People's Artist of Georgia(1987), and laureate of the Francisco Viñas International Competition in Barcelona (1987, Grand Prix and Gold Medal). She was a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (1990–1991), representing the Tbilisi Samgori #20 electoral district as a majoritarian. Tomadze served as Chairman of the Music Subcommittee within the Commission on Culture, Education, and Science. She was among the signatories of the Act of Restoration of Independence of Georgia on April 9, 1991.

Grandson – Giorgi Rukhadze (lawyer)
Daughter-in-law (grandson’s wife) – Ana Nebieridze (political scientist)
Great-granddaughters – Maia Rukhadze, Ia Rukhadze, and Meri Rukhadze (students)

Close people

Meri Davitashvili, Alfred Schnittke, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Nana Kavtaradze, Natalia Chanturishvili, Nikoloz Rachveli, Eter Bukhrashvili, Nino Jvania, Eka Chabashvili, Marika Nadareishvili, Tamar Tsulukidze.

Heir of creative work

Giorgi Rukhadze

Locaton of Material

Family Archive; Archive and library of the V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State conservatoire; National Library of Georgia; Internet resources.