Mirian Khukhunaishvili
Winner of the 23/24 Ringmann-Jaross Award for Outstanding Musicians offered by maestro Christoph Eschenbach, leading to a season of sharing numerous concerts together.
Winner of the Conductors' Academy 22/23 awarded by the Tonnhale Orchestra and maestro Paavo Järvi.
Co-founder and Music director of the Tbilisi Youth Orchestra, Mirian Khukhunaishvili, is an Iceland-based Georgian conductor. Praised by Christoph Eschenbach as a "tremendously gifted young conductor" after his debut with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the young Maestro is on his way to conquering the hearts of European orchestras.
Mirian has led orchestras such as the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, North Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra and all major Georgian orchestras and choirs.
The Braveheart
He has worked with world-renowned musicians, including Eliso Virsaladze, Paata Burchuladze, Stuart Skelton, George Gagnidze, Nino Machaidze, Valeriy Sokolov, Alexander Buzlov, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Eduard Brunner, Anastasia Kobekina, Veriko Tchumburidze, Stathis Karapanos, Luka Okros, Szymon Nehring, Mariam Batsashvili, and others.
Mirian will return to the Berlin Konzerthaus with the Tbilisi Youth Orchestra at the “Young Euro Classics” in August 2023.
Since 2021 Mirian has served as an invited faculty member at the Iceland University of the Arts, where he teaches conducting classes and leads the university choir.
In 2020 he earned his doctoral degree in conducting at the Academy of Music in Krakow.