Giorgi (Gio) Janiashvili

Giorgi (Gio) Janiashvili is a composer and artist whose praxis transcends categories. His extensive body of work encompasses acoustic music, electronic music, sound art, video art, multimedia performance, installation, text, and graphic art.

Janiashvili has produced concerts, multimedia performances, and exhibitions worldwide. He has showcased his work at such renowned venues as the Southbank Centre, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Laban Theatre, Blackheath Halls, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Abrons Arts Centre, The Tank NYC, ShapeShifter Lab, National Gallery Prague, Nostitz Palace Prague, Messe Frankfurt, Museum of Georgia, Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi History Museum, and Tbilisi State Conservatoire.

He has received commissions for the 12th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Surrogate Cities Exploded!, and Impossible Brilliance: The Music of Conlon Nancarrow; from a violist Rivka Golani, CoMA Voices, City Lit London, Goethe-Institut, Polish Institute, among others. His work has been published by PWN Warsaw.

Giorgi Janiashvili was born in 1989 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a resident of New York City, USA. He received a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK. He is a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Scholarship, Beatrice Taylor Scholarship, Ludwig Lebell Scholarship, Trinity Laban Scholarship, TCL Scholarship, and Vivian Prindle Outreach Prize,  among others. His education includes composition studies at Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia, and Ircam, France.

Contact • giojmusic@gmail.com