Convenor and the Organizer of the series of International Conferences “Problems of Traditional Polyphony”. Founding Member and the Member of a Board of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony. Doctor of Music (Dr Mus) in musicology (ethnomusicology), awarded by Kiev State Conservatory (Ukraine), 1991. Dissertation theme: “Georgian traditional Polyphony in International Context of Polyphonic Cultures: The Problem of Origins of Polyphony”.  PhD in Musicology (Ethnomusicology). “Modulations in East Georgian Drone Songs”, Tbilisi State Conservatory, 1982.