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"The Russudan Meipariani Ensemble performs an impressive dramaturgical curve.
The ensemble combines classical instrumentation with contemporary music and elements of East European folk music.
In the highly attentive performance, the musicians manage to connect archaic singing with structures of
minimal music and free improvisation."
Jury of Creole world music competition Südwest 2009
"How is that possible, such a persistant emotion, induced by such "wordless" singing?
Because it brings back our very first memoriesof when we did or did not understand the lullaby
and the comforting words of our mother? Or is it yet a kind ofknowledge we achieved as adults?
Songs has been sung, alluring and beautiful, whose lyricswe had lost a long time ago?
And Russudan Meipariani would be the dreaming Fairy, who had at least managed to reasonably keep their melodies in mind."
Rems-Murr-Rundschau 2008
"The meeting of caucasian archaic, jazz, old and new music.
As well as traces of Scandinavia till Africa. In spite of all
assumed backings, here manifests something totaly own - and a big voice-discovery."
Blue rhythm 2007
"It actually has a very own tone, this CD, apart the cliches, certainly‚
without deposing on the elitist field of new music, with free fantasised singing,
apparently grasped from the air."
Stuttgarter Zeitung 2007
"The visitors of Creole-competition in the Theaterhaus could experience,
that the magic moments in her concerts arise. In the middle of this colorful,
loud music festival transformed Russudan Meipariani the concert hall in a mystical
venue and moved the audience in devotional silence. Gently and dreamy, at the same time
very determined and with breathtaking stage presence, did she let her public attend her
inner world, where the children pictures and glamorous stories meet."
Begegnung der Kulturen 2007
More music you find on my CD "Lieder aus einer Insel" (Peregrina 2007), or visit me at
www.myspace.com/russudanmeipariani (audio) and www.youtube.com/user/russudan (video).
I was born in 1975 in Tbilisi, Georgia. After finishing my piano education at the Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1999, I moved to Germany in order to study composition with Wolfgang Rihm and Sandeep Bhagwati at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe.
During these years, I founded the Daphioni Piano Trio in collaboration with my sister Natalie Meipariani and her husband Giga Khelaia. Together we recorded two albums with, amongst others, pieces by Schumann and Shostakovich and performed on tours and contests all around Europe, Georgia and Japan.
From 2003 to 2004, I studied composition with Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. During this time, I started to particularly focus on the human voice and began to write pieces of music based on onomatopoeic experiments with my own voice. My music comprises elements of Georgian, Scandinavian and Indian folklore as much as elements of classic, rock, minimal and medieval music.
In Oslo, I had the pleasure to meet with the Tindra Trio, an ensemble performing traditional Norwegian music. In November 2009, we have made together a tour in Georgia.
In 2007, I recorded the first album of my own songs, together with some other artists: "Lieder aus einer Insel" ("Songs from an Island"). Subsequently, I wrote a couple of "Erdlieder" ("Earth songs") – a capella songs, dealing with different kinds of polyphony, as well as the music fairytale "Das Mädchen auf der Windwelle" ("The Girl on the Wave of Wind"), a tale of metamorphosis, mainly inspired by Claudio Monteverdi’s "Orpheus" and the music and singing of the Solomon Islands. Records of both of these projects are in preparation.
In 2008, my four-part "Hymnus" premiered in the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart, performed by the vocal arts ensemble. During my time as an artist in residence at the Villa Sträuli (Switzerland), I composed music for a documentation about the Swiss artist Bettina Eichin, directed by Clemens Schmidlin.
In 2009, the Russudan Meipariani Ensemble won the "Creole Weltmusikwettbewerb Südwest" ("world music contest southwest") in Mannheim. Autumn 2010 I was on tour with Rüdiger Oppermanns "Klangwelten Festival".
Russudan Meipariani Ensemble
With Natalie Meipariani (vocals, violin) Giga Khelaia (cello), David Stützel (throat singing, singing saw) and other musicians.
Daphioni Trio
Natalie Meipariani, Giga Khelaia and me playing classical music:
http://www.daphioni.com.
Veli Ulevi
Together with Zura Dzagnidze (guitar):
http://www.veliulevi.com.
Solo:
With Natalie Meipariani, Giga Khelaia and David Stützel:
With Zura Dzagnidze:
