Natalia Gabunia (1968) was born in a family with broad musical tradition in Tbilisi, Georgia. She started her violin studies at the Central Music School in Tbilisi with the renowned pedagogue K. Vardeli and later on, during six years, she studied under the guidance of Professor M. Glezarova in Moscow. In 1990, shortly after graduating with special distinction from Professor Batiashvili’s class at the Tbilisi State Conservatory, she was offered a scholarship by Professor Liana Isakadze to study privately in Germany. From 1992 she spend four years as a student of Professor Mark Lubotsky at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. Thereafter she moved in 1996 to the Netherlands for her post-graduated (second phase) studies with the renowned teachers Phillip Hirshhorn and Charles-Andrë Linale in Utrecht.Mrs Gabunia made her official solo-debut at the age of twelve, playing the Mendelssohn concerto live on national TV with the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arnold Katz. In the years after she was regularly invited to perform with the orchestra in collaboration with conductors like Kachidze and Osterreicher, playing concertos a.o. of Brahms, Lalo, Mozart, Bach followed by numerous recitals, festival and TV appearances.After the Perestroika, she was chosen to play as a soloist throughout Germany with a joint Georgian/German Youth Orchestra. She played in Chamber Music Festivals throughout Europe and performed as a soloist in Germany, France, Finland, Austria, Armenia, Italy and the Netherlands. Several times, Mrs Gabunia played the double violin concerto by J.S. Bach with star-violinist Vadim Repin.In September 2005, she performed with the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra the violin concerto composed by her father Nodar Gabunia, in the popular Tbilisi Autumn Festival. In the Netherlands, she works frequently together with Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze, performing in duo recitals.Mrs. Gabunia plays a rare Zosimo Bergonzi lent to her by the Elise Mathilde Foundation.
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