Mindia Khitarishvili

Mindia Khitarishvili was born in 1973 in Batumi

Mindia Khitarishvili was born on January 1, 1973, in Batumi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1991 he studied choir conducting, piano and music theory at the music college in Batumi.

From 1991 to 1996 he studied musicology and composition at the Tbilisi State Conservatory and the Academy of Arts of Georgia. He studied composition with Professor N. Mamisashvili.

From 1996 he worked at the Batumi music college and as a music editor for Adjara TV. He wrote and produced music for the Batumi State Puppet Theatre until 2012, and from 2001 he taught courses such as polyphony, orchestration and jazz harmony at the Batumi conservatory. In 2003 he received the honorary title of Honored Worker of Arts of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara.

His works include 2 rock operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, choral music and music for about 40 drama and puppet shows. His rock opera The Ballad of Tavparavneli premiered in 2010 at the Batumi State Drama Theatre.

In 2012 he moved to Israel and worked as a music producer for the GTV channel. Since 2014 he has composed for a Russian-language theater group at the Haifa Theatre, and in 2016 he co-founded the studio Art Master Music Group in Haifa. He teaches at the Dunie Weizman Conservatory in Haifa.