19.07. 1981. Ethnomusicologist, Doctor of Arts; was born on 19 July, 1981, in Tbilisi. In 2002 graduated from Tbilisi state Conservatoire, Bachelor of Music History. Defended dissertation: “Georgian Round-dance Songs: Peculiarities of Musical Language”. Since 2004 has been a specialist at the Laboratory of Georgian Folk Music Department of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Since 2008 has been a teacher at E. Mikeladze Tbilisi Central Music School; worked at the State Folklore Centre of Georgia in 2008-2012; in 2008-2012 was a music presenter and author of ethnomusicological programs at FolkRadio: “history of one song”, Georgian musical dialects”, “A genre”, since 2015 has been Assistant professor at V.Sarajishvili Tbilisi state Conservatoire.
Has participated in about 20 folk music expeditions; is a former member of ensemble “Pesvebi” and “Conservatoire ensemble”; directs ensemble “Akhalukhlebi”. His scholarly interest is Georgian round-dance songs.
Incomplete list of works:
Interrelation between the Round-Dance Songs of East Georgian Mountains and Kartli-Kakheti. In the collection: 2nd International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony; editors J. Jordania and R. Tsurtsumia . Tbilisi: International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony of V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. 2005, pp.254-270
Georgian Round-Dance Songs: genre, dialect, polyphony, ritual (based on Rachan material); in the collection: “Issues of Musicology (collection of Doctoral scientific works); EDs.: K. Bakradze, R. Tsurtsumia. V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Tbilisi, 2010, pp.31-50.
Traces of Round Dance in Alilo Ritual, in the collection: “Issues of Musicology Otar Chijavadze 90” (group of editors N. Zumbadze et al). V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Tbilisi, 2010, pp.22-32
Round-Dance Songs in Samegrelo, online journal: “Musicology and Culturology”. 2011#1 (7), pp.52-64.
Dideba. in the collection: Proceedings of the Conference for Young Ethnomusicologists (short content). Ed.: N. Zumbadze. V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. CIOFF. Tbilisi, 2012, pp.41-44
Songs Recorded in Chartali Community, in the collection: Materials of the Conference for Young Ethomusicologists.Ed.: N. Zumbadze. V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. CIOFF. Tbilisi, 2014, pp.28-32
e-mail: otariani@yahoo.com
