Elene Ansaia Meipariani is a German-Georgian violinist whose artistic focus lies in the classical repertoire, while also recognizing contemporary works as an indispensable part of today’s musical expression. Meipariani has performed as a soloist in venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg’s Grand Hall, as well as with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Bremen State Youth Orchestra, and the Tbilisi Philharmonic. In chamber music, she has collaborated with artists such as Lisa Batiashvili and Avi Avital and has appeared at festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, and the Rheingau Music Festival. A particular focus of her work is the dialogue with living composers, including Isabel Mundry, Violeta Dinescu, and Tomasz Skweres, whose works she performs.
Out of interest in rarely performed repertoire and new sonic possibilities, she recorded a CD of two quintets by Maria Bach for the cpo label in 2019.
Since 2025, she has combined her artistic practice with teaching: After a one-semester substitute teaching position for Prof. Christine Busch, she holds a teaching position at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts.
Elene Meipariani is a prizewinner of international competitions, including third prize and the student jury prize for the most creative music education at the TONALi competition in Hamburg. With her piano trio Trio E.T.A., she received the prize of the German Music Competition in 2021. In 2023, her trio E. T. A. was accepted by the Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk (SWR2) into the exclusive, three-year “SWR2 – New Talent” development project and has since received support through live concert recordings, radio productions, concerts, and CD recordings. She began her studies at the age of ten with Prof. Christine Busch in Stuttgart. She received further formative influences from Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, Prof. Priya Mitchell, Prof. Nora Chastain, Prof. Leonard Fu (Juilliard String Quartet), Prof. Martin Funda, and Prof. Lukas Hagen at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Elene Meipariani is a scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation.
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Elene Ansaia Meipariani was born in Filderstadt, Germany. At the age of ten, she was admitted to study with Prof. Christine Busch at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 2018/19, she continued her studies with Prof. Priya Mitchell and, since October 2019, has been studying with Tanja Becker-Bender at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Since 2024, she has been studying with Prof. Christine Busch and Prof. Martin Funda.
Elene Meipariani has won numerous national and international awards, including the Förderpreis of the Tomastik-Infeld-Vienna Foundation at the international Knopf competition in Düsseldorf. She also won third place and the Schülerjury prize for the most creative music communication at the TONALi competition in Hamburg. In 2021, her piano trio, Trio E.T.A., received the Prize of the German Music Competition and the Rotary Special Prize.
She has performed as a soloist in the grand hall of the Elbphilharmonie, accompanied by the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie under the baton of Daniel Blendulf, and with the Tbilisi Philharmonic Orchestra at the State Opera of Tbilisi. She has also performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
In chamber music, she has collaborated with artists such as Lisa Batiashvili, Avi Avital, and Peter Nagy at renowned festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, and the Rheingau Music Festival.
In 2023, her trio, Trio E.T.A., was selected for the exclusive, three-year “SWR2 – New Talent” program by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR2), and has since been supported with live concert recordings, radio productions, concerts, and CD releases. The debut CD of her ensemble was released in February 2023 by the Leipzig-based label GENUIN and was produced in collaboration with the Deutscher Musikrat and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. In addition, Elene Meipariani recorded a CD for the “cpo” label in 2019, featuring two quintets by Maria Bach.
Elene Meipariani is a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation and plays a violin by Domenico Montagnana from 1740, generously loaned by the Rudolf-Eberle-Stiftung.
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