Ketevan Roinishvili - Cello

Ketevan gives cello lessons at Music For Life. She comes from a musical family in Tbilisi (Georgia). In 1993 she got accepted to the Music Gymnasium (a school for talented children where they teach music as well as the normal school subjects) in the piano class, but after three years she changed from piano to cello and came in the class of Professor M. Chostaria. During her study at the gymnasium she already started giving solo concerts. At age 15 she was already the solo cellist of the Conservatory orchestra of Tbilisi under the lead of Lev Markiz, the internationally famous Russian conductor and artistic director of this ensemble.

In 2003 she was invited to take part in the Beethoven festival in Bonn and gave several chamber music concerts in France and the Netherlands in 2006. Ketevan graduated cum laude at the Music Gymnasium and got accepted at the Conservatory of Tblisi, where she studied until 2008 with Professor Tamara Gabarashvili. In 2012 she finished her Bachelor Cum Laude with Professor Dmitri Ferschtman at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 2012 Ketevan studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Professor Reinhard Latzko. In 2014 she finished her studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Floris Mijnders with the highest degree, Cum Laude.

Ketevan received the first price, public price and the price for the artistic playing in the National Competition of Georgia (2007). She received a diploma at the International Dotzhauer Cello Competition in Dresden. In April 2009 she won the ‘Servais’-price at the Servais International Competition.

Ketevan received the ‘Radio 4 studiebeurs’ in the Dutch Classical Talent competition in 2013. She was also awarded with a tour in the Netherlands which is scheduled in 2015 with pianist Daniël Kool.

Ketevan is a member of the 'Mirovia Quartet' with whom she performs regularly. The Quartet is a combination in which youth, talent, artistic vision and a special international character (four musicians, four nationalities) find each other in an interesting musical blend. The Quartet consists of Maria Milstein (violin), Merel Vercammen (violin), Dana Zemtsov (viola) and Ketevan Roinishvili (cello). The quartet is featured on the cd 'Memento' by harp player Remy van Kesteren.

Ketevan was selected to perform Dvorák’s cello concerto with the orchestra of the Conservatory of Amsterdam with conductor Adrian Prabava. She performed Tsjaikovski’s Rococo variations with the Turkish National Youth Orchestra conducted by Cem Mansur. In 2012 Ketevan was invited to play at the Oleg Kagan Festival where she performed with Natalia Gutman. Ketevan performs regularly in the Netherlands and abroad. She gave concerts in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Belgium and Georgia. Ketevan had masterclasses with Anner Bijlsma, Maria Kliegel, Michel Strauss en Jérôme Pernoo.