Irma Issakadze

Georgian pianist, born in Tiflis in 1976, into one of the most significant musical families of the former Soviet Union. At the age of 14 Issakadze was admitted to the College of Music in Munich, Germany, as protégée of the German pianist Ludwig Hoffmann, who encouraged and taught her. She studied under the Russian pianist Vladimir Krainev at the College of Music in Hanover, Germany.