Aliza Kezeradze

Aliza Kezheradze (Georgian: ალიზა ქეჟერაძე; 1937 – 18 February 1996) was a Georgian pianist and a teacher. Her last name, Kezeradze, was inherited from her nanny. In 1976, she began teaching Ivo Pogorelić, whom she married in 1980.[1]

She received her first piano lessons from her mother. At her graduation concert she performed such works as Barber's Piano Sonata, Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No.7 and Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy.

She raised a son named George with her ex-husband. The latter was a crucial diplomat of the Soviet Union, whose father was a scientist of the same importance inventing weapons during the Cold War. Pogorelich's initial marriage proposal was rejected while she had already divorced.

She died on February 18, 1996 in New York from liver cancer.

References

  1. ↑ Tommasini, Anthony (2006-07-01). "A Moody Dionysus of the Piano". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
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