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Nun Sidonia (Lela Bulia)

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Nun Sidonia (Lela Bulia)

 

Composer, teacher, performer,

Clergyman, icon painter, applied arts (embroidery)

 

 

Date & Place of Birth

 

April 15, 1967, Gali (Georgia)

Closest Anniversary Date

 

2027 will mark 60 years since birth

 

Education (School, Teacher)

 

1973-1984 - Zugdidi Akaki Tsereteli Secondary School No. 1 (graduated with honors, diploma and "gold medal");

1974-1980 - Zugdidi Music School No. 1, piano class of teacher Lali Chikhladze;

1980-1984 - Zugdidi Music School No. 1, piano class of teacher Mzia Matkava;

1984-1986 - Experimental School at the Tbilisi Conservatory, composition class of Alexi Shanidze;

1986-1991 - Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory, Music. Composition department, Composition Class of composer Aleksandre Shaverzashvili;

 

 

Geographic Location of Activities

                                                   

Gali, Zugdidi, Tbilisi, Ninotsminda /Sagarejo/, Mtskheta (Georgia);

Workplace & Position

 

1992-1997 - Zugdidi N 1 Music School-Decade, piano and theoretical disciplines teacher;

1993-2003 - Regent of the Zugdidi Church of the Savior's Door Choir;

1996-2000 - Zugdidi St. George Theological Gymnasium, singing teacher;

2000-2003 - Zugdidi Independent University, piano, singing and theoretical disciplines teacher;

 

Since 2003 - Clergyman

2003-2006 - Mtskheta, Antioch Monastery;

2006-2010 - Mtskheta, St. Catherine Monastery;

2010-2012 - Diocese of Sagarejo and Ninotsminda, Ninotsminda Monastery;

Since 2012 - Zugdidi;

 

Field of Work

 

Compositional work:

Symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, choral, hymn;

 

     Ancestors, Family Members & Descendants

 

 

 

Father - Rezo Bulia (1936-2006) physical education teacher;

Mother - Klara Khasaia (1939) philologist, teacher;

Sister - nun Sabiana (Maka Bulia) (1969) philologist;

 

Intellectual Property Heirs

 

 

Research Material Location

 

 

Family archive;