Veronika Tumanishvili

Veronika Tumanishvili (date of birth: April 19, 1922, Tbilisi, date of death: July 30, 2009), Georgian musician, pianist and honored teacher.

 She had started studying in talented children’s group, which was established at Tbilisi Conservatoire (afterwards formed as a Central Music School of Z. Paliashvili), in the class of Professor Ana Tulashvili - one of the founder of Georgian Piano School.

 She revealed extraordinary music talent in her early years that became the subject of attention by many famous musicians (among them, the great Russian pianists, Heinrich Neuhaus and Maria Yudina) who highly estimated and appreciated her performing art.

Veronika continued master refinement with the famous pianist and teacher from Moscow - Professor Aleksandr Iokhele - in Tbilisi Conservatoire. Unfortunately, she had to stop concert career due to sudden hands’ diseases and all her talent and experience gave to pedagogical work and educating of young generation.

For a long time, she had been working in Tbilisi Central Music School of Z. Paliashvili (“Ten years school of talented children”), where many generations of famous  pianists studied. More of them, nowadays,  work and live in different countries of the world.

Among Veronika Tunanishvilis’s students we can name leading teacher of Manhattan Music School in New York and an awardee of many international competitions, Natela Mchedlishvili; Director of Conservatoire of the Music and Ballet Academy of Jerusalem, professor Lea Agmoni; famous performing pianist and a teacher, based in Netherlands, an awardee of several international competitions and Borletti Buitoni Award, Nino Gvetadze; famous pianist in France, Megi Sparsiashvili; Lali Rcheulishvili  -leading  teacher at  Tbilisi Central Music School of Z. Paliashvili and so on.

She was beloved teacher for many famous people in various different spheres beside music. For example, famous art expert, Professor Dimitri Tumanishvili, musician, film actress and painter, Lika Kavzharadze, Politician Nino Kobakhidze and many others.

Veronika Tumanishvili had an active pedagogical career till her death at age 87, on July 30th, 2009.