12. 15. 1945.
Doctor in History of Art, Professor, Director of the International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony. Deputy chair of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, and the head of Scientific programs. In the past she worked at the Ministry of Culture of Georgia, Publishing House “Khelovneba”. In 1986-2007 she was a Deputy Rector of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. The focus of her scientific and pedagogical work is Georgian professional and ethno music. She is an author of scientific works published in Georgian and foreign languages.She is an initiator and leader of a number of projects. In 2003-2007 she was a coordinator of the project by UNESCO “Protection and Development of Georgian Polyphony”. She also is a co-editor of the proceedings of Tbilisi Symposias.
Tsurtsumia’s main works:

Kartuli khalkhuri simghera dghes – tsotskhali protsesi tu samuzeumo eqsponati? (Georgian folk song today – living process or museum exposition?) (Attempts of sociological analysis). (1997). In collection of the scientific works: Tsurtsumia, Rusudan (editor). Issues of musicology:3-17. Tbilisi: Tbilisi StateConservatoire (in Georgian, with Russian and English resume)
Kartuli khalkhuri simghera atastsleulebis mijnaze (Georgian folk song on the edge of Millennia).(1997). Magazine “Rani Vart Kartvelebi?” (Who are we Georgians?): 18-22 (in Georgian)
XX saukunis I nakhevris kartuli musikis erovnul traditsiastan damokidebulebis shesakheb (On the attitude of the 1st half of the 20th century to the Georgian national tradition). (1998). Issues of Musicology. Collection of the scientific works of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. (edit.). Tbilisi: 291-324 (in Georgian)
Polifonia, rogorts kartuli traditsiuli musikaluri azrovnebis dziritadi kategoria (Polyphony, as the main category of Georgian traditional musical thinking). tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph (editor).The First International Symposium on Traditional Symposium: 90-98. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional polyphony of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian and English languages)
XX saukunis II nakhevris kartuli musikis erovnul traditsiastan damokidebulebis shesakheb (On the attitude of the 2st half of the 20th century to the Georgian national tradition). (2004). (editor). Issues of Musicology. Collection of scientific works of Tbilisi State Conservatoire: 310-140 Tbilisi: (in Georgian)
Mravalkhmianobis kartuli khedva (Georgian vision of polyphony). (2007). Magazine “Mnatobi”, #4 (in Georgian)
Sakartveloshi datsuli tsvilis lilvakebis kolektsia (Collection of the wax cylinders preserved in Georgia). (2008). Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, joseph (editors). The Third International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony: 584-601. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony (in Georgian and English languages)
Kartuli mravalkhmianoba tanamedrove sotsio-kulturul kontekstshi (Georgian polyphony in the modern social-cultural context). (2009).Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, joseph (editors). The Fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony: 584-601. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony (in Georgian and English languages)
Culture”(2009). In: The Caucasus: Georgia on the Crossroads. Cultural exchanges across the European Beyond. Florence, pp. 257-270
Shalva Mshvelidzis shemokmedebiti metodis erti taviseburebis shesakheb (“On One Peculiarity of the Artistic Method of Shalva Mshvelidze”) (2009). In: Issue of Musicology. Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Volume of scientific works. Tbilisi (in Georgian)
“Georgian Multipart Singing and National Identity” (2010). In: Echoes from Georgia: Seventeen Arguments on Georgian Polyphony. New York, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 257-279
Tanamedrove kartuli sazogadoeba da musiklauri identoba (“Modern Georgian Society and Musicl Identity”). On-line Journal Ars Georgika of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation (2011).. (in Georgian)
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Gruzinskoe videnie folklora: vzgliad s rubezha tysiachiletia (Georgian Vision of Folklore: Look from the Turn of Millenium) (2011). In: The Tradittional Culture in the Mirror of its Reception. Collection of the scientific works, dedicated to 70 anniversary of Izaly Zemtsovsky. Saint-Petersburg, The Institution of Russian Art, pp. 127 – 14 (in Russian)
“The Value Orientation of the 20th century Georgian Music” (2012). In: Musik und Kulturelle Identitat. XIII Internationaler congress der Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung. Weimar
XIX-XX saukuneebis mijnis kartuli erovnuli tsnobiereba da musikaluru identoba (“Georgian National Consciousness and Musical Identity at the turn of XIX-XX Centuries” Pirosmani and Georgian Culture (2013). Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, Tbilisi, pp. 281-288 (in Georgian)
“Georgian Voices from the German Prison Camps” (2014). In: Echoes from the Past:Georgian prisoners’ songs Recorded on Wax Cylinders in Germany 1916-1918. Tbilisi, Publishing House Cezanne, pp.55-63