Our School Team
Nino Barkaya
In 2002 Nino was admitted to the V. Chabukiani’s school of classical ballet and to the Z. Paliashvili Music school Batumi, Georgia. During these years she performed many solo concerts and concerts with orchestra (conductor David Mukeria). At the same time she performed ballet spectacles like ‘’Sleeping beauty’’, ‘’Nutcracker’’, ‘’Giselle’’, ‘’Don Quixote’’ and danced solo ballet variations.
After eight years of study in 2010 she admitted to the V. Sarajishvili ’s Conservatoire Tbilisi, Georgia. After four years she graduated for her Bachelor’s degree. During her studying in Conservatory she was soloist of Georgian ensemble ‘’Erisioni’’.
In 2015 Nino won a scholarship DAAD and continued her Master’s degree in ‘’Hochschule für Musik und Tanz’’ Cologne, Germany with Prof. Sheila Arnold. She performed her concerts in Cologne, Aachen and participated in several master classes by Den Tepfer, Alexander Korsantia, Valerian Shiukashvili, Nina Tichman.
In 2018 Nino returned in Georgia, started teaching children playing piano and worked like accompanist of viola, violin, clarinet, bassoon players in various concerts, competitions and festivals.
In 2019 during one year Nino danced modern ballet in Giorgi Aleksidze’s Tbilisi Contemporary Ballet.
In 2022 Nino was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Prof. Philippe Riga, Piano-accompaniment.