Musicologist Nana Sharikadze is an associate professor at the Caucasus University and at Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, where she served as rector in 2019-2023.
Dr. Sharikadze has conducted extensive research in various musical domains, including 20th-century musical theater and opera, experimental music, the intersection of politics and music, Georgian music, and Soviet music. Currently, her focus is on Soviet music, exploring unique perspectives related to colonization and decolonization. In 2023, Dr. Sharikadze published the monograph An Introduction to Georgian Art Music: Sense-Making Through Music (Cambridge Scholar Publishing).
Her research has received support from various sources, including the DAAD (Germany) in 2012, the Polish Institute of Culture in Tbilisi (2018-2019), and the Thesaurus Poloniae scholarship program (2022). In 2024, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Sharikadze actively participates in national and international conferences worldwide and has delivered lectures in Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany.
In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious silver medal Zasłużony Kulturze Gloria Artis by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, making her the first Georgian citizen to receive this honor.
