| Biography | Born into a family of musicians in Moscow, Karine Georgian is today one of the outstanding exponents of the golden generation of Russian string playing. She began her cello studies at the age of five under her father, a well-known cellist and teacher, later studying seven years with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire. After taking the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Third Tchaikovsky International Competition, she launched an international career that has spanned all the countries of the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, the Far East and the United States, debuting in Carnegie Hall with her compatriot Aram Khachaturian conducting his Cello Concerto, and the US premiere with the Chicago Symphony of the same composers Cello Rhapsody, also under the composers baton |