Giorgi Kalandarishvili

Giorgi Kalandarishvili was born in 1983 in Tbilisi, Georgia. At the age of 6 he started playing the piano and by the time he was 11 he began playing the oboe. When he was 15 he became the prizewinner at the ‘Piccoli Mozart’ festival in Monte Carlo. He then went on to study with Günther Passin in the Youth Study Programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He graduated with top marks from class of Prof. Ingo Goritzki at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and afterwards continued studying in the soloist class of Prof. François Leleux at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. This was followed by numerous engagements as principal oboe with orchestras in Germany and Austria, including the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, the Moza