The competition was founded in 2013 in Kutaisi—the hometown of Meliton Balanchivadze, where, in 1918, he established the first professional music school in Western Georgia. Throughout its existence, the school has nurtured generations of renowned Georgian performers, teachers, and composers. Its graduates continue to study at prestigious higher music education institutions abroad and successfully pursue their careers in various countries around the world.

The idea of establishing a competition named after Meliton Balanchivadze also originated at this school. The aim of the first competition, held in 2013, was to promote the work of the great Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze by creating instrumental transcriptions of his vocal compositions. The competition was held with the active involvement of the Georgian Composers’ Union. A competent jury identified numerous interesting interpretations.

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Director of the House of Portugal – André de Gouveia at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, João Costa Ferreira is a Portuguese pianist and researcher who holds the Diplôme Supérieur d'Exécution from the École Normale de Musique in Paris and a doctorate in Music and Musicology from the Sorbonne Université.

Chao Tang, a recipient of a full scholarship and the Piano Artist Diploma from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, USA, and also received a full scholarship for study and exchange at Princeton University in the United States. He has successively served as the Executive Director and judge of the 4th Alberti International Piano Competition, a judge at the Golden Key Music Festival Carnegie Hall Performance Competition in New York City, the Executive Director and judge of the Ginastera International Music Competition in China,

Assistant Piano Instructor at the Indiana University School of Music, Piano professor at S. Cecilia Music Academy in Bergamo,Vice Dean of the Liceo Musicale S. lessandro, teach piano at the Donizetti Conservatory of Bergamo.

Pianist, Pedagogue, Professor of Piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris – Alfred Cortot.  Artistic Director of the Samson François International Piano Competition and the “Rencontres Musicales du Negresco” chamber music festival in Nice.

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