Zurab Sotkilava

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Lavrentievich and the family name is Sotkilava.
Zurab Sotkilava
ზურაბ სოტკილავა
Born
Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava

(1937-03-12)12 March 1937
Sokhumi, Georgian SSR
Died18 September 2017(2017-09-18) (aged 80)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Occupations
Association football career
Full name Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava[1]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1951–1955 Dinamo Sokhumi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955 Dinamo Tbilisi 2 (0)
1956 FShM Tbilisi
1958–1959 Dinamo Tbilisi 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (Russian: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, Georgian: ზურაბ სოტკილავა; 12 March 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USSR recipient.

Biography

Education

In 1960, Sotkilava graduated from the Tbilisi State Polytechnical Institute.

Football career

Sotkilava began playing association football during childhood. At age 16, he joined Dynamo Sukhumi where he played full-back. In 1956 he became captain of the Georgia national team, and two years later he joined Dynamo Tbilisi.[2] In 1958 he incurred severe injuries while playing in Yugoslavia. This ultimately led to the end of his sports career in Czechoslovakia the following year.[3]

Music career

In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory under the guidance of David Andguladze. Between 1965 and 1974 Sotkilava was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre (named after Zakaria Paliashvili). From 1966 to 1968 he was a student at La Scala where his teacher was Dinaro Barra. He later became a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory where he remained until 1988. After six years he became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Music, at which point he became known for his singing of Giuseppe Verdi's works.

By 2000, he chaired the jury at the Kinoshok film festival at Anapa, which hosted films from throughout the CIS and Baltic States.[4]

Later life and death

In 2015, he was diagnosed with a malignant pancreatic tumor; he died in 2017, at age 80,[5] and was survived by his wife, Eliso Turmanidze, and his two daughters.[citation needed]

Roles at the Bolshoi Theatre

Awards

Former Students

  • Ksenia Leonidova [13]

References

  1. ^ Profile at Footballfacts.ru (in Russian)
  2. ^ Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава / Zurab Sotkilava profile, peoples.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Биография Зураба Соткилавы". РИА Новости. 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  4. ^ "Zurab Sotkilava:Tenor (1937-2017)". Bolshoi Theatre. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  5. ^ Оперный певец Зураб Соткилава признался, что тяжело болен раком, lifenews.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  6. ^ a b Биография Зураба Соткилавы, peoples.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  7. ^ "Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского — Педагоги — Соткилава Зураб Лаврентьевич". Archived from the original on 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  8. ^ Presidential Decree dated 3 December 2007, № 1626
  9. ^ Указ Президента РФ от 22 марта 2001 г. № 325 Archived 2012-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, kremlin.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  10. ^ "Биографии вокалистов". Archived from the original on 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  11. ^ Распоряжение Президента РФ от 27 октября 2012 г. № 486-рп, pravo.gov.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  12. ^ Состав академии: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, independent-academy.net; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  13. ^ Московская государственная консерватория имени П. И. Чайковского, mosconsv.ru; accessed December 25th 2019(in Russian)