Ani Palavandishvili is a Georgian pianist from Tbilisi, born in 1994. She started playing piano in her early childhood and was enrolled at the experimental music school of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire at the age of six where she has been actively performing in annual academic concerts. At the age of 10 she already held her first piano recital and when she was 14 she performed Beethoven piano concerto No1 in the Tbilisi Conservatoire with the conductor Giorgi Jordania. Starting from 2009 Ani joined the Musical Seminary under the supervision of Professor Svetlana Korsantia. While being a student of the Seminary, she has participated in a number of prestigious festivals and national competitions where she has received diplomas and a special prize for her outstanding performance such as in ‘We Play Music’, ‘Find Your Star’ and the 2nd National Piano Competition. In 2012 Ani was successfully accepted at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with a full scholarship of the Georgian government. Since then she has been invited to different national and international masterclasses led by pianists such as Eliso Virsaladze, Alexandre Korsantia, Eter Anjaparidze in Tbilisi, Hans Jung Sthrub in Munich and Epifanio Comis in Sicily (Catania, Palermo, Noto). After graduating her bachelor studies, Ani received a full scholarship to continue her musical education in the master progarmme at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. As a master student she has been awarded stipendium of the Mayor of Tbilisi multiple times for her academic achievements. Ani is a recipient of a grand-prix at the 6th state festival-competition “Find Your Star” in 2013. In 2018 she became the finalist of the ‘Tengiz Amirejibi’ International Piano Competition and in the same year she has held her solo recital in the Conservatoire. Ani has been recently invited to the master classes of professor Eteri Andjaparidze in NewYork. Currently she is a music teacher at the ‘Georgian Piano Academy’ established by the official representation of ‘Steinway and Sons’ in Georgia and teaches piano as well as theory and history of music. Ani also plays as an accompanist and performs as a solo pianist at concerts.