Maka Maya Virsaladze
Maka Maya Virsaladze (born May 23, 1971 Tbilisi, Georgian people, Georgia) is a music composer and assistant professor at the Conservatory of Music in Tbilisi. Virsaladze graduated from the Zakaria Paliashvili Special School of Music in Tbilisi in 1989. Afterwards, she attended the Conservatory of Music in Tbilisi from 1990–98, where she studied Musical composition, composition with Bidzina Kvernadze and Nodar Mamisashvili, and musicology with Lia Dolidze. From 2000 to 2001, she studied composition with Walter Zimmermann at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. In 1994, Virsaladze was awarded the Georgian Ministry of Culture Prize for her composition series ''Three Romances'' (including "Song of Siren", "Pyramids", and "Sonnet of Prayer") for soprano and piano. In 1998, she co-founded the Union of Young Georgian Composers and Musicologists in Tbilisi. References

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Georgian People
The Georgians, or Kartvelians (; ka, ქართველები, tr, ), are a nation and indigenous Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia and the South Caucasus. Georgian diaspora communities are also present throughout Russia, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Ukraine, United States, and European Union. Georgians arose from Colchian and Iberian civilizations of classical antiquity; Colchis was interconnected with the Hellenic world, whereas Iberia was influenced by the Achaemenid Empire until Alexander the Great conquered it. In the 4th century, the Georgians became one of the first to embrace Christianity and now the majority of Georgians are Orthodox Christians, with most following their national autocephalous Georgian Orthodox Church, although there are small Georgian Catholic and Muslim communities as well as a significant number of irreligious Georgians. Located in the Caucasus, on the continental crossroads of Europe and Asia, the High Middle Ages saw Georgian people form ...
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