Tamar Zhvania – pianist, Doctor of Musical Arts, teacher at Tbilisi V.Sarajishvili State Conservatoire. She studied at Tbilisi Conservatoire and R.Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf (as a DAAD Grant holder). Prizes: I Prize and the Special Prize of the Mayor of Vienna at the Vienna International Piano Competition 2006; Diploma of Honor at IV Bialystok International Piano Duo Competition 2008. Tamar also participates at international conferences and publishes her papers in national and international periodicals.