Ketevan Roinishvili

Ketevan Roinishvili 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 Mikheil Khoshtaria. 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 Russian conductor Lev Markiz, also artistic director of this ensemble. He and the ‘Stichting vrienden van het Conservatorium van Tbilisi’ made it possible for Ketevan to come and study in the Netherlands. Also they helped her to buy her current instrument of which the builder is unknown. Her bow is a ‘Fetique’ and is borrowed from the ‘Nationaal Instrumentenfonds (NMF).
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.
In 2007 Ketevan received the first price, public price and the price for the artistic playing in the National Competition of Georgia. 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 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.