Teimuraz Bakuradze

Date and place of birth: 

1943 April 17 – Tbilisi (USSR)     

1950

Primary education:  Secondary School — Music School (piano class).

1953

Five small pieces — The first piano work; 

further development as a composer — under caring supervision of Andria Balanchivadze (Professor at Tbilisi Conservatoire).

1958

Continuation of studies at a music school:

Continuation of studies at a music school. First artistic impressions: Richter — Gilels — Neuhausand his class — Oistrakh— Rostropovitch — legends about a Canadian wonder (Glen Gould) — 41, Lenin str.: philosopher Mikheil Naneishvili — Parrenin Quartet (shock from encore Webern) — Juilliard String Quartet — Marcel Marceau’s Pantomime  — Italian neorealism in movie theatres —  Les Quatre cents coups: French New Wave — Bergman's Smultronstället  — later Kurosawa's Rashomon and  Akahige  —  echo of the First Moscow International Film Festival (Fellini 8 1/2) — the First International Tchaikovsky Competition: Van Cliburn — philharmonic life: Symphonic Mondays established by Evgeni Mikeladze — Willy Ferrero (Maestro’s: "Toscanini!.. Toscanini!..") — Pierre Dervaux (in purple tailcoat) — Efrem Kurt (later) and Kurt Masur (at the beginning of his career) — Odysseas Dimitriadis’ Tchaikovsky's Sixth and performances in the Opera House — Zakaria Khurodze's Mahler’s Fourth (first performance) — Lile Kiladze's Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and the composer's new generation and composer Nodar Mamisashvili's lectures: “Claude Debussy's 24 Préludes”, “Mandarin by Bartók”, “The Second Viennese School”, “Moses und Aron by Schoenberg” etc.

1961

Meeting with Shostakovich. 

Andryusha and Mityusha (friends from the Glazunov Conservatoire) — and fascinated by their relationships growing under their caring guidance (at the beginning of his career as a composer).

1962

Tbilisi Conservatoire:

Andria Balanchivadze's first lesson: We will not have the next lesson, my brother Giorgi arrives in Moscow, I have to meet him at the airport — ... and George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet in Tbilisi — ...and the curtain goes up and… Tchaikovsky's Serenade (this is how Diaghilev’s ‘godson’ who was re-christened in Paris started his American career with Lincoln Kirstein) — ...Stravinsky's Agon and Bach's Concerto Barocco — ...Ravel's La Valse and Jerome Robbins’ Western-Symphony  — ...5 programmes —  (huge crowds gather, they say the police cavalry have to be summoned);

Maria Yudina in Tbilisi — Ilyichev's Decree in newspapers (saying it was "the end of Ottepel") — Stravinsky's Concert and Hindemith’s The Four Temperaments on the Great Hall Posters — Webern (replaced by Volkonsky) — Bartókand Stravinsky (with the young Derevianko) — meeting with Balanchivadze's class — and Yudina's gifts to student composers (Stravinsky’s scores with composer's autographs). 

1964

The Caribbean Crisis could not stop the Cleveland Orchestra — and neither could the hailstorm sound (putting out the lights in the Opera House hall) — at the conductor’s stand George Szell (encore Vltava by Smetana) — and James Levine (a young assistant in the morning concert); 

Noah Greenberg’s ensemble New York Pro Musica (pioneers of authentic performance of ancient music) — and Giorgobistve by Otar Ioseliani (the subtlety and the depth of seeking roots on the movie screen).

1967

Graduation from the Conservatoire: first steps in the cinema — Gela Kandelaki —  documentary film Tehran Impressions.

1970

The first feature-length film: Otar Ioseliani’s Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird​ — the first performance of the Soviet avant-garde in Tbilisi (A. Volkonsky's Replica) — the only performance in Orbeliani's palace by that time ГОДИКС (GODIKS, Russian abbreviation standing for Georgian Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations) — Sergo Zakariadze: expression of the shifted social accents on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre — Robert Sturua's The Crucible and Temur Chkheidze's Gushindelni (Yesterday’s) and La casa de Bernarda Alba — preparing for his compositorial debut: Pshauri Natirilebi (Pshavi Laments) (three books for the quartet) searching for performers.

1972

George Balanchine's Second visit to Tbilisi — Stravinsky's Grand Festival Ballets —  Tchaikovsky — Balanchine's Gershwin and Robbins’s Goldberg Variations — Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte op. 41 ​Gela Charkviani (Ode by lord Byron) Khubutia/Toroshelidze initiative

1973

Belated compositorial debut: Pshauri Natirilebi (Pshavi Laments) in the Recital Hall of the Conservatoire — Renewed Composition of the State Quartet — Konstantine Vardeli, Tamaz Batiashvili, Nodar Zhvania, Otar Chubinishvili (laureates of the Bartók International Competition) — Leader Giorgi Barnabishvili.

1976

Luigi Nono in Tbilisi — Initiative of composer Otar Taktakishvili (Minister of Culture of the Republic of Georgia) — Grand Hall of the Philharmonic — Como una ola de fuerza y luz — Conductor: Jansug Kakhidze — Soloists: Maia Tomadze (Soprano) Nana Khubutia (Piano) — Luigi Nono (Tape).

1977

Praeludium (the premiere)

The first part of the Tetralogy to be auditioned for the public

a ‘happening’ in the 2,500-seat hall

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Conductor: Jansug Kakhidze   Director: Gela Kandelaki   Scenographer: Mikheil Chavchavadze

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