Visiting Artist Series to welcome pianist Abuladze
FOR RELEASE: Monday, February 6, 2006
Huntington, Ind. "Elena Abuladze will perform a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 23, 2006, in the Longaker Recital Hall in the Merillat Centre of the Arts at Huntington University. There is no charge, and the recital is open to the public.
Abuladze was born in 1967 in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. She started to take piano lessons at the age of four and performing with an orchestra at the age of seven, as a student of a school for gifted children. In 1992 she graduated from Tbilisi Conservatory and earned her master's degree in music education three years later. In 1996, Abuladze moved to the United States, after being invited to teach at Indiana University South Bend.
Throughout this time Abuladze never stopped performing. Her repertoire includes works for piano by Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff.
Currently, as a married mother of two boys, she works at Fort Wayne Ballet and gives private piano lessons.
