Alisa Kezheradze
Alisa Kezheradze (Georgian: ალისა კეჟერაძე; 11 December 1937, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia – 18 February 1996, London, UK) was a Georgian pianist and teacher. She received her first piano lessons from her pianist mother Lucya Kezheradze. She studied at the Tbilisi Central Music School for Gifted Children with Nina Pleshcheyeva, a student of Alexander Siloti, and subsequently, at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with Emil Gurevich.
In early 1970s, she married construction engineer George Teslenko, with whom she had a son George, and moved to Moscow, where she taught piano at the State Pedagogical University.
In 1976, she met and began working with Ivo Pogorelić, whom she married in 1980.[1]
She died on February 18, 1996, from liver cancer.
References
- ^ Tommasini, Anthony (2006-07-01). "A Moody Dionysus of the Piano". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
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